Archive: ubuntu

When migrating one server to another you often hit bumps in the road. Todays was transferring a database from one server to another. During this standard procedure I found that the restored database was missing a few tables. Irritating as Magento doesn’t like missing tables. Digging down into the backup and extracting the first missing [...]

If you use Linux on a regular basis, you’ll probably know just how useful a symlink is. This makes things extremely annoying when a program refuses to work with them – treats them as a file or just refuses to work. Enter: mount –bind mount –bind is a special type of mount that will mount [...]

After a bunch of digging around trying to find out how to get my internal SD card reader working in Ubuntu 10.10 I have found this solution: Looking at dmesg, the error I was getting was this: PLAIN TEXT CODE: mmc0: ADMA error mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card I found the solution here: [...]

The for command The for command is extremely useful for working with a group of files, it can be used with a glob (e.g. "*.jpg"), the output of a command (e.g. grep) or an internal command such as expr. Two examples :- Combining with imagemagic's convert command to convert a directory's png files to jpegs [...]

If you've ever had that annoying problem where someone has asked you to put a flash banner on a site and it covers up your nice dropdown or pop-out menus, you'll be glad to know that the current versions of flash don't do that if you set the right parameter! Yes that even includes flash [...]

Our last post on getting less css doesn't work any more for installing less css on 10.10, due to changes in rubygems and ubuntu/debian, so here's some updated instructions that work again! PLAIN TEXT CODE: sudo apt-get install rubygems1.8 ruby1.8-dev sudo gem install rubygems-update sudo gem update rubygems sudo gem install less And also remember [...]

If you are using an ATI graphics card with Linux then you might be struggling with the fact they have helpfully decided to only use two thirds of your screen. They actually do the same thing with windows but give you a nice tick box to disable this "feature" In linux though we are not [...]

If you are trying to get your computer and TV talking to each other over your home network so you can directly play files on the TV over the network then this is for you. Windows 7 has DLNA built in and initially I was booting into that for DLNA services, but the behaviour is [...]

If you are tearing your hair out trying to figure out why trying to run something is complaining that it doesn't exist when it clearly does, this is quite possibly your solution. The problem is most likely that you are trying to run a 32bit package on a 64bit system. The solution is easy enough, [...]

If you use Git a lot, you probably want to run the latest version. Scroll down for some reasons why. The standard repository version for Ubuntu is 1.7.1, the current latest is 1.7.5 and there are some significant differences. How to Upgrade Git To get 1.7.5 on Ubuntu without too much messing about you can [...]