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…
Read MoreJaunty Jackalope Is Here!
The day has finally come and the latest release of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) is available for download.
So Whats Been Improved?
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Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel
The Linux kernel is one of those things i like most people tend to take for granted. I occasionally will see my system updating its kernel, read the new features in the latest Kernel release or occasionally head over the linux.org to grab the latest source if i need to compile my own for whatever reason. But thats normally as far as i look into it, until i saw this google tech talk by Greg Kroah Hartman he is a great speaker and presents a lot of interesting information about the Kernel.
Read MoreInstalling Awstats On a Ubuntu Server
Awstats i think has lost the lime light in the last few years thanks to Google Analytics, but that dosent mean its useless. Its quick and unlike Google Analytics the latest stats are not a few days old, well they arent if your cron jobs run on regular basis anyhow. This post aims to show you how to get awstats up and running on your Ubuntu based server, with the stats of a virtual host pulled straight from the Apache log files.
Read MoreOverclocking An Asus 701 eeepc
For a while i have wanted to play around with unlocking the full speed of my eeepc 701’s CPU, but have never found the time. Tthe other day i decided to change the standard Xandros eeepc operating system, to something with a bit more flexabilty. I settled on eeeubuntu, and figured whilst it was a fresh install without anything i cared about on the system i may as well have a crack at overclocking it.
Read MoreMounting Remote File Systems Via SSH On Ubuntu
As a developer a lot of time is spent working with code located on remote servers, downloading files, and re-uploading changes gets tedious using ftp, or standard ssh clients. One solution to this dilemma is sshfs, it allows a remote file system to be mounted locally using the ssh protocol, making editing, creating and deleting files a breeze.
Getting sshfs working is pretty painless and following the instructions below should get you up and ready to go in less than 5 minutes.
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