Linux

How To: Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Postfix on Ubuntu

April 26, 2012
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I recently moved to a new VPS because my last one was at something like 92% uptime. I wanted to try Nginx because Apache was constantly crashing, possibly something to do with Plesk being installed. The resource usage on my old VPS was way too high considering I was running about a dozen mostly very [...]

Install Eclipse 3.3 On Ubuntu 8.04

June 14, 2009

This is just a quick post. I’ve had numerous problems with eclipse 3.2 PDT and Aptana on my Hardy Heron install; updates have broken functionality in the past and many problems with memory allocation. After installing the PyDev plugin the other night to try out Django my PDT and Aptana installs were destroyed and so [...]

Toshiba Laptop Microphone Not Working on Ubuntu

March 17, 2009

This problem has been plaguing me for a while. Running Ubuntu 8.04 on my Toshiba satellite laptop (p200-EE), when my girlfriend wants to call her family back in New Zealand on skype the microphone never seems to just work – the skype test call always returns nothing. After hours of testing I have compiled a [...]

Transfer photos from Nikon DSLR on Ubuntu

January 5, 2009

Saving the photos from my Nikon D60 onto my laptop running Ubuntu 8.04 was a bit problematic. F-spot worked initially but then it seemed a bit complicated and really I wanted to use picassa to manage my photos as it works so nicely. Picassa wouldn’t import the photos from the camera and just froze when [...]

Register with NickServ and join an IRC channel with Pidgin

November 12, 2008

I’m an identity theif. I’ve been using the IRC channel for cakephp, jquery and others for a while now without a registered password, at first I thought I would just try it out, but as these IRC channels have become more and more handy it became time for me to register properly and stop impersonating [...]

Install Ubuntu Dual Boot with Vista installed on your laptop

February 26, 2008

Installing a dual boot of Ubuntu on your Vista laptop is really very easy, but there are a few gotchas that tripped me up and meant I had to install Ubuntu a couple of times to get it right. I am not a windows or linux expert at all, this is just a basic how [...]

Using NTFSClone to clone NTFS volumes super fast

January 8, 2007
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NTFSClone is a super fast Linux utility for copying NTFS volumes. It is incredibly fast and will typically clone a 10GB NTFS volume in under 3 minutes. Compare this to Ghost which would easily take 10 minutes to complete the same task and you begin to realise the potential of this utility. Basically all you need to tell [...]

Using NTFS Resize

December 7, 2006
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Recently I found myself in a situation which required me to resize an NTFS partition in order to fit it onto a replacement HDD. In searching around and seeking some advice from a work mate I found the SysRescue Live CD (downloadable from: www.sysresccd.org) that has a tool on it called NTFSResize. This is a [...]