On Ubuntu to move the the Firefox new tab button to the left rather than the right (replace the 'me' and 'profilename' bits below with the appropriate settings for your own system):cd /home/me/.mozilla/firefox/profilename/chromecp userChrome-example.css... » More
Install CurlFtpFS with:sudo apt-get install curlftpfsMount an FTP site with:sudo curlftpfs -o user=myuser:mypass ftp://ftp.domain.tld ./mylocaldirsudo ls ./mylocaldirsudo fusermount -u ./mylocaldirOr add it to the fstab:mkdir /media/myftpsite &&... » More
On Ubuntu install binchunker with:sudo apt-get install bchunkThen create the iso at the command-line with the following:bchunk myfile.bin myfile.cue newfile.isoMore info here
I had a brief issue with a quickly thrown together website. Specifically the margin:auto; centering was not working in IE8 and jQuery scripts were not behaving. I found out that this was related to the lack of a DTD e.g.<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC... » More
I decided to test IntegraTUM Web Disk which can provide a web interface to Samba shares, and just to get a demo working I did the following - these are not necessarily the best options for actual deployment.The first problem I had with this app was... » More
Certwatch checks for Apache certificates which are due to expire. By default on Red Hat / Centos there is a cron job in /etc/cron.daily which runs and sends its output to root. To configure it:vi /etc/sysconfig/httpdAdd a line such... » More
Half a pint of buttermilk8 oz Plain Flour2 oz Caster Sugar1 dessertspoon of Golden Syrup1 Egg1 teaspoon Baking Soda1 teaspoon SaltMix together and cook in a buttered pan until bubbles appear then flip to do the other side.
If the Red Hat subscription expires. Edit the following file:/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sourcesComment out the following line:up2date defaultThen add this line:yum dag http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag
In Apache 2 I added the following to stop Internet Explorer trying to open these formats as compressed archives (which they actually are) and to open them using the MS Office appliations:AddType application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12... » More
Connection speed symbols on my HTC Hero. There are 4 symbols (shown below in order of speed) displayed in the top bar when using mobile network:G GPRS ~ 56 kbit/s (171 kbit/s theoretical max)E EDGE ~ 240 kbit/s (473 kbit/s theoretical... » More
