If you run mysqldump --all-databases you get one monolithic file which can be a pain when trying to restore one database. So it's nice to call mysqldump dbname so you get individual database backup files. To call mysqldump for each database requires that you either...
Open Source Apps
Locally hosted Piwik a replacement for Google Analytics
Looking at this article on Slashdot led me to an open source version of Google Analytics namely Piwik. Installation of Piwik is very easy and It has a Wordpress Module, WP-Piwik so integration into a WP blog isn't too difficult. Another benefit is you get a stats page...
avidemux compile or I just wanted to rotate some video…
Ubuntu 9.10... avidemux is crashing everytime I try to run the rotate filter with a partial frame range. So I'm trying to compile it from source to see if I can get it running. What they don't tell you in the online install instructions is you have to compile both the...
Sweet Home 3D
Check out the 3D drawing I did from a cool Java application Sweet Home 3D This is approximately an hours work after following the tutorial and using an imported 2D floorplan. This isn't using the best quality rendering setting and I found my old P4 was struggling a...
Create a WordPress Page Tab that leads to a non WordPress URL
I have my Wordpress setup to display all the blog posts on the front page and the Wordpress "Pages" as tabs on the navigation at the top of the page. However I also would like the navigation to point to other non Wordpress areas of my domain and go straight there. For...
KDE4
So I have haunted the linux-users mailing list for about um (1999-2009) 10 years. And the discussion turned to KDE4 and well frankly there wasn't many people saying it 'completes me'. Quite the opposite. So seeing I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 I though I would install...
svn working copy inside ecryptfs file name gotcha
So encrypting your stuff is wise from a security standpoint. Yes? Here is a little problem I ran into when I copied my svn working copy into an ecryptfs directory. The actual copy operation gave an error message about "file name too long" which I ignored. But then I...
Ubuntu – PuTTY GTK2 Package
I wrote some stuff on compiling PuTTY with GTK2. Here is a deb for Ubuntu (I compiled it on 8.04 and have tried it on 9.04) putty_20090326-1_i386 md5sum: 2f0926105d949dcb7fc7ce0c818b2088 I think I did it with checkinstall and if it's broken you get to keep both peices...
GtkPod Fails to Convert ogg to MP3
Just tried to install some oggs onto my wife's iPod Shuffle 1G and using the add Files button from within GTKPod I get an error similar to: /usr/share/gtkpod-aac/scripts/convert-2mp3.sh exit status 5 I had to install the following to make it work. sudo apt-get install...
Gallery Upload to Dreamhost
So I just finished transferring my Gallery 2.3 installation from my old server to Dreamhost. gFTP has been replaced by FileZilla In the past on Linux I have used GFTP to do FTP uploads but have found it buggy. This time I used FileZilla and I must say it performed...
Migrating the WordPress MYSQL Database to a New Table Prefix the Hard Way.
So I have moved my domain to dreamhost.com Why? Got sick of my home computer being a VMWare Server. Couldn't reboot or upgrade when I wanted Computers are evil time suckers. Moving my website means I don't have to worry if it's up, down or sideways. dreamhost.com can...
Changing Mozilla Thunderbird Forward as Attachment to Forward Inline
When I forward a message I like to have the option of scrolling through the content and commenting in between the paragraphs of the forwarded message. Thunderbirds default behaviour is to forward messages as attachments: However to be able to edit the forwarded email...
Enabling Stylesheet & Template Editing of LedgerSMB on Ubuntu 9.04
You have several places that templates exist in LedgerSMB /var/lib/ledgersmb/css/ for the LedgerSMB user interface templates and /usr/share/ledgersmb/templates/demo for the Latex / HTML report output templates. Run the following commands as root (or sudo command):...
Installing LedgerSMB 1.2.18-1 on Ubuntu 9.04
This post is a step by step guide to installing LedgerSMB 1.2.18-1 on Ubuntu 9.04. Download ledgersmb_1.2.18-1_all.deb # Install postgresql sudo apt-get install postgresql # Install the PDF / PS utilities sudo apt-get install texlive # Install Perl Dependencies sudo...
Installing VMWare tools on a Ubuntu 8.10 Guest
I logged into my Ubuntu VMWare Guest and found the time had drifted by about 15 minutes... I have seen all sorts of conjecture as to why you should / shouldn't run ntpd to keep your vm time in-sync. So I thought I would install vmware-tools... which does it for you....
WP-Highslide Plugin XHTML gotcha
I have the WP-Highslide plugin installed. When I attempt to validate my highslide enabled pages over at http://validator.w3.org/ I get: Line 231, Column 62: document type does not allow element "div" here; missing one of "button", "map", "object", "ins", "del",...
Maitland Waterproofing
I have just finished coding a website for a friend. He's running a Waterproofing business. I got him to do the waterproofing in my bathroom renovation, which he did a great job of. I was amazed at how neat the end result was (he used these cute little plastic dishes...
Create a Favicon in GIMP and apply it to your WordPress Install
I have added a favicon.ico to this site. This is how I did it using GIMP. Open a picture in GIMP Image => Canvas Size (Change the canvas to be square) Unlink Width to Height Chain Increase the narrowest dimension (either width or height) to be the same as the widest...