I needed to add mysqli support to cPanel and did so by logging in to the WHM on port 2087 scrolling down the left menu to Software and clicking EasyApache (Apache Update) then followed the steps to recompile with my chosen options. Continuing with the... » More
I just used the Python script located here and created getnasa.py in my home directory. I made it executable and added it to my System > Preferences > Startup Applications.
Now I have a nice new NASA space image refreshed each day!
I have a WordPress installation which uses LDAP against Active Directory to authenticate users. I upgraded PHP to version 5.3.8 from version 5.1.6 (using the Atomic Repository) and also upgraded WordPress and the LDAP plugin. I'm not sure which upgrade... » More
I had been asked to create some watercolour versions of my holiday photos so I created the following action file for Photoshop (CS2). What does the action do? Creates 3 new dupliacte layers Layer 1 - Filter > Artistic > Cutout (with... » More
Background: I made a tar backup of one system and wanted to untar that onto different hardware. A bit like cloning. However I needed to make sure the hostname and network settings were those of the new machine and not the cloned machine. So for future... » More
The simple way to wipe or zerofill a disk is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1M However I found an article describing how to zero-fill with a progress indicator using pipebench, installed on Debian/Ubuntu with: sudo apt-get install pipebench then... » More
Background: I had an existing CentOS machine as a virtual machine running on VMWare ESX Server and it was running out of space so for future reference I did the following. Incidentally my disk is sda with the new partition create on the extra space as... » More
Quick Reference Good PDF introduction to the GDL language. Libraries Hunting around the web there are people producing extra libraries which can be downloaded : NASA IDL Astronomy Libraries SDSSIDL - a set of general IDL utilities for... » More
The Gnu Data Language is an interactive interpreter/incremental compiler for the GNU Data Language, which is primarily used in scientific, astronomical, medical and geo-science data processing applications. It supports graphical output and is... » More