Although the “lines of code” in a project is not the worlds most useful metric. Curiosity sometimes gets the better of us and after many days / weeks of typing you think “gee I wonder exactly how many lines of code are in that project?”. Wonder no more! By embracing…
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Replace The Default Firefox Google Search In Linux Mint
The recent release of Ubuntu’s Natty Narwhal forced me to reassess my usage of Ubuntu on my work and home machines. As I found the Unity interface drives me crazy and the release on a whole to be very buggy. So I decided to give Linux Mint a go, it…
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Anonymizing CURL Scripts With TOR & Polipo
Last week I received a typical run of the mill phishing email littered with the usual bad Engrish making the instructions far from believable but being bored I decided to take a look at the link they were pushing. They had created a believable enough looking Paypal form asking clueless…
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Near Realtime File Replication With Lsyncd
Ever wanted real time backups ofย directories on your server? To replicate static media files for a website to a separate box to reduce load? An easy solution lays with lsyncd it allows you to watch a directory structure on your file system, and replicate any changes on a remote…
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Tracking Bandwidth Usage With vnStat
Outside of internal networks bandwidth is paid often for by the gigabyte and as such it becomes important to be able to see the bandwidth consumption of machines and plan future quotas accordingly as usage grows. There are plenty of packages available that fill this void like darkstat, ntop etc,…
Read MoreUbuntu Natty Narwhal Invisible Scroll Bars In Eclipse
Since its release on April 28th Natty Narwhal (11.04) seems to have gained it fair share of haters. The Unity interface is a huge change to the UI and in most peoples experience its buggy and doesn’t seem ready for the prime time. No issue I thought after I upgraded…
Read MoreEasily Rip Youtube Videos On Ubuntu Maverick
Downloading youtube videos to your local machine for offline veiwing is easily on Ubuntu 10.10 with the youtube-dl utility. Simply open a terminal window and execute: apt-get update apt-get install youtube-dl
Read MoreDisabling CPU Scaling With Ubuntu 10.04
If your like me it annoys you that your desktop keeps messing with your CPU speeds when all you wan’t is performance. Fortunately its easy enough to fix. Open a terminal windows and execute: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rcconf (Chances are you may already have the rcconf installed.)…
Read MoreUbuntu Lucid Lynx A Quick Look
The newest Long Term Support (LTS) version of the Ubuntu distro labelled Lucid Lynx was released earlier today. This release is packed with new packages and enhancements, making me keen to try it out. Not being brave enough to gamble with my current desktop machine running Karmic Koala I decided…
Read MoreSetting Up PowerDNS With A MySQL Backend On Ubuntu 9.10
Bind9 has treated us well over the years, but its lack of support for database back ends in a default install is very annoying, especially when an application needs to control DNS services dynamically. PowerDNS is a powerful alternative it supports a wide variety of back ends and can also…
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