There is a lot of talk about a lot of automation tools these days. Truth is though that you can cover a lot by simply using a normal shell script and some common Linux tools.... Read More
I just experienced the weirdest thing ever on a shared hosting space (avoid One.com). For some reason folders I knew to be there (accessible through http) were not showing up in the FileZilla directory browser. Files I just had to download due to a hosting move.... Read More
When the news of the Chrome browser first hit the world I just didn’t get it? Why would Google spend that much time and effort into making a new browser when there already were so many nice ones out there, what was the strategy, the gain? They claimed it was fast and lightweight, well at that time Firefox felt fast enough for me, that plus all those amazing addons just made it incomparable.... Read More
Last week our host had a power outage and the backup power didn’t kick in or something. In any case, the end result was a reboot of all our servers, which went surprisingly well, except for one.... Read More
First of all, I have to say I’m really happy the way it turned out, at the moment I’m having no problems at all running a 64bit version of Ubuntu, but damn, the road here was horrible.... Read More
I just tried DiskSearch, it’s a great replacement of WhereIsIt for Linux, the only gripe I have is that it’s not possible to actually click in the search results to have the folder open up in Nautilus.... Read More
Today I somehow ended up on ext3’s wikipedia page, I wanted to check whether it’s really true that no defragmentation is needed like they say.... Read More
Using Intrepid and the newest Nvidia drivers (version no. 180), Compiz Fusion finally works, so does TwinView. What a massive relief, finally!... Read More
I’m now programming casino and poker related sites in Malta. First of all, the in house CMS solution we use for our sites is tightly connected to the use of virtual servers in Apache. So first up was trying to implement that without using some admin tool like Plesk or cPanel.... Read More