First of all, this walk through pertains to Ubuntu 12.04 and assumes that your hosting company or ISP is able and willing to assign an extra static IP to an arbitrary hwaddress/mac on your host machine.... Read More

Make sure you have the following line in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse... Read More

So this weekend I finally had enough of the GTK2 vs GTK3 theme discrepancies. Up until now I’ve resorted to simply do the default Radiance theme combined with the Metacity part of Reuben.... Read More

Update: keep the CPU settings to one CPU and RAM usage to below 4GB to avoid issues with the virtual network cards. And make sure you comment the bind-address line in your my.cnf for inter-network database interaction.... Read More

I’m currently running Ubuntu 12.04 and for the first time PulseAudio seemed to be working flawlessly.... Read More

Oh Jesus, where to start?... Read More

Update: Apparently the master connection info gets cached in /var/lib/mysql/master.info so whenever you change the settings in my.cnf you need to remove it before you restart mysql.... Read More

I honestly can’t remember where I originally got my setup from. This is a pretty good tutorial though.... Read More

I just got an 4th gen iPad to test mobile sites with. Unfortunately there is no proper jailbreak for it yet so editing the hosts file on the machine itself was out of the question.... Read More

When I program Clojure and PicoLisp I use Emacs and it’s the way things are done in Emacs which inspired me to looking into making myself more productive doing PHP in Eclipse.... Read More