This tutorial is useful for converting an existing design to a WordPress theme quickly:http://jonathanwold.com/tutorials/wordpress_theme/
Apr
2009
Uptime Update
Availability Report year to date: 99.991%Unfortunately a reboot is necessary for a kernel update.
Apr
2009
FreeNX on Ubuntu in 5 minutes
The last time I tried installing FreeNX was on Suse about 3 years ago. So again frustrated with the speed of VNC I tried FreeNX again this time on Ubuntu [...]
Apr
2009
MySQL InnoDB Table Lock
I had a customer with a problem using a web based email marketing software application. Importing data and deleting data seemed to stop working. The database uses InnoDB tables so [...]
Apr
2009
Find and Replace Strings in Files
The Wikipedia article on find is great. Searching To check for the existence of the string in any of the files in the directory structure: find . -exec grep -H [...]
Apr
2009
rsync: fatal: libpopt.so.0: open failed
I was trying to use Rsync on a Solaris machine and received the following error message: ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/rsync: fatal: libpopt.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory I discovered from [...]
Apr
2009
Tor and Privoxy in Ubuntu
Tor is a free implementation of anonymity network which protects your privacy over the internet. Tor enable this by providing virtual tunnels to internet application through SOCKS interface. This post [...]
Apr
2009
Sun Solaris Screen Resolution
When moving some Sun Solaris servers to a new server room with a new KVM solution (Raritan Paragon 2) we had difficulty getting the Sun servers to display on the [...]
Apr
2009
Changing the default Horde theme for Plesk
On my Plesk installation the Horde themes are installed to /usr/share/psa-horde I downloaded the wps_sober theme. To install it: – extract all the files of the archive to the /usr/share/psa-horde/ [...]
Apr
2009
Determine Linux Operating System Version
To determine the Operating System/Distribution version from the command line / terminal interface. How to tell the Ubuntu version? # lsb_release -rRelease: 7.10 How to tell the Slackware version? # [...]

