live cd reset administrator account windows Download Ultimate Boot CD and burn it to a CD or USB thumb drive. Boot the machine from UBCD and from the menu choose: HDD Data Recovery Offline NT Password & Registry Editor Follow the steps... » More
I had a problem today with running out of space on my Ubuntu desktop that I rarely reboot. After running: du -a | sort -nr | head Within my home directory I could see that the file holding xsession-errors was the problem. This file had grown to... » More
On CentOS install monit as follows: yum install monit Make sure it starts automatically: /sbin/chkconfig --levels 235 monit on The main configuration file is at /etc/monit.conf but this file loads in any files under /etc/monit.d which is... » More
I've been playing around with the valuable feedback from Google Page Speed analysis and have managed to significantly improve the scores on some of my websites. For future reference I have made some notes below. Image Optimisation It is possible to... » More
So I wanted to keep an eye on what my daughter was up to on facebook etc. In addition to using OpenDNS and the Nanny parental control software in the Ubuntu Software Center I would like to use DansGuardian but that might take a little more time. One... » More
Using Ubuntu 12.04 on QUB Wifi poses a few problems as there is a bug (bug report) in the version of libssl shipped with 12.04. To resolve the issue you need to downgrade the version of libssl If you follow the instructions from comment #37 on that... » More
Times for my first triathlon: Swim=14:21 T1=1:47 Cycle=41:26 T2=0:39 Run=25:27 246 Jonny Mccullagh 01:23:44 Ages 35 - 39 49 205 00:14:21 00:01:47 00:41:26 00:00:39 00:25:27 So I came in roughy 246th overall of 360. My swim... » More
Richard M. Stallman spoke last night for almost 3 hours on the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement and the history of the GNU operating system. It has been 6 years since he last spoke in Belfast. He signed my copy of "Free as in Freedom"... » More
I noticed some unbranded Android phones on eBay and I have bought two so far. The first one was a 4.3" Android 4.0 with the MTK6575 processor, and the second was a 4.6" Android 4.0 with the dual core MTK6577 processor. I tested the devices using Antutu... » More
On CentOS install monit as follows: yum install monit Make sure it starts automatically: /sbin/chkconfig --levels 235 monit on The main configuration file is at /etc/monit.conf but this file loads in any files under /etc/monit.d which is... » More
