Archive: linux

If you are struggling to connect to your IMAP mailboxes but other machines on the same network are working fine, then chances are you are hitting the rather restrictive max connections per IP setting that is the default with Courier IMAP and Plesk. As standard it is limited to only 4 connections per IP. For [...]

I have now decided to totally abandon my windows installation and use Linux for everything. I was pretty much using Linux for everything already but there were a few apps that I still used windows for or simply hadn't got around to trying out on Linux.
I have a projector hooked up for watching movies. I [...]

If you ever get Grub Error 21 when trying to boot your Linux laptop or notebook then this post is for you.
Grub Error 21 means that it cannot find the hard disk. On a desktop machine this probably means that you need to fix Grub itself. Just google for Grub error 21 or supergrub.
However on [...]

Sometimes it can be really hard to figure out exactly which file a chunk of code is coming from. At times like this the command line tool grep is immensely useful.
This snippet of code will search all php files within a specified folder. It will check through all files and sub folders for the string [...]

If you create a symlink via SSH then chances are you are logged in as the root user and the symlink will be created as root. Usually though you will want to the symlink to belong to another owner:group.
If you try to use chown it will silently fail to change the ownership of the symlink, [...]

Check this out - chromium (the open source backbone of Google Chrome) running on Linux, courtesy of the nice people at Code Weavers
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If like me you love having the ability to grab the color hex code for any on screen element to use in your HTML or CSS then you have probably also come across the colorzilla firefox extension which allows you to do just that.
Unfortunately though it doesn't run on Firefox 3 / Ubuntu Intrepid 64 [...]

Ubuntu Linux is undoubtedly the most successful desktop version of linux available today. It has managed to tempt across many dedicated windows users with its easy installation procedure, comprehensive bundle of applications including open office and firefox, its greater security and reduced vulnerability to internet viruses and malware. And of course the fact that it [...]