For a backup server which we may want to run as read-only for short maintenance periods the following may be useful.Method 1: Global read_onlyLogin to MySQL and set the read_only setting to true:mysql -u root -pset GLOBAL read_only = true;To unset this... » More
Some small steps with DVD-RAM on Ubuntu 9.10. I inserted a blank DVD-RAM disk and it was not automatically mounted. I tried mounting but there was no filesystem, so I formatted it as a test with:mkfs.ext2 /dev/sr0which took a while!Then mounted it... » More
As an extra precaution to protect data in the cloud I set up a free Backupify account which can be configured to make daily/weekly backups of Blogs, Gmail, Google Docs etc. After making backups the individual files/emails can be browsed and downloaded.... » More
Ophcrack LiveCD can be used to recover lost Windows passwords based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on... » More
Some users where complaining about the Offline Address Book being out-of-date. Checking the Event Viewer on the cluster node which creates the OAB showed the following error:OALGen detected that the file '.....lzx' is corruptedor missing. This indicates... » More
An easy way to add some of the menu items familiar to Photoshop users, such as:Layer Styles such as Drop-shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow etcSave for WebSmart SharpenBatch ProcessingContact SheetMuch more...Install using Synaptic Package Manager search for... » More
As per this post on the Ubuntu forums:Download the 32-bit deb installer Install with:sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture zsnes_1.510-2.2ubuntu2_i386.debRun with:zsnes -ad sdl
As a useful addition to the webstats armory Visitors offers a quick way of getting a HTML report of site usage from server logs. We mainly use AWstats, Webalizer and Analytics products (Google Analytics, Piwik) but I found Visitors useful today. Install... » More
Checking the Apache server-status page I noticed multiple lines like the following:29-39-0/0/3162.32.26894900.00.00186.48123.111.123.111mywebsite.co.ukOPTIONS * HTTP/1.030-39-0/0/10.0.002432400.00.000.04123.111.123.111mywebsite.co.ukOPTIONS * HTTP/1.0The... » More
