This tool from pendrivelinux.com is a useful utility to help create a bootable USB pen drive with a menu system for booting into multiple operating systems. It works from within [...]

I was helping someone with some jQuery to read XML files of Shakespeare plays and this is what I came up with. Very incomplete but he so I can reference [...]

Creating customised content based on the origin country of your website visitors requires installing the mod_geoip module for Apache and also the MaxMind GeoIP database as follows (on CentOS): mkdir [...]

So I wanted to create screenshots of my HTC Hero Android phone from my Ubuntu desktop. So I … downloaded and extracted the android sdk to e.g. ~/programs cd into [...]

Armed with a few RPMs I need to install on multiple machines and sick of SCP’ing files around machines I decided to set up a Yum repository. Here’s how: On [...]

There is a web page created by someone else containing figures I would like to use to draw some graphs in Munin. The HTML in that page is a bit [...]

Todays installment in the Adventures of Squid Sandwich: Forwarding loop detected WARNING: Forwarding loop detected for: in /var/log/squid/cache.log Since I am using a DansGuardian sandwich with Squid for bread  I [...]

On Linux to discover which processes are using all the swap run top press ‘O’ (capital letter o) then ‘p’ then ‘enter’ Processes should be sorted by their swap usage.As [...]

Since I like posting screeshots of uptime figures here is one of an anti-spam machine up for 1496 days (just over 4 years). The machine is running Red Hat 4.

It’s free – it came with my computer Love them or hate them Microsoft are effective in business. One of their methods of peddling their product is to ensure that [...]