Plesk horde blank page
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guake terminal application fails with guake.schemas error on ubuntu 10.10
I am surprised this one hasn’t been fixed as I can see on google mentions of this back to 2007. Anyway many google results tell you to execute this command. This also gives a file not found error. I did a quick updatedb and locate guake.schemas. Here is an updated command for Ubuntu 10.10 to [...]
Making Ubuntu Usable.
I wanted a quick launch panel at the bottom of the screen like I have in windows 7. I decided to look for a mac like and found avant-window-navigator (AWN) I installed this via synaptic and within 10 minutes had it looking pretty. I moved the show desktop icon, trash icon and open applications list [...]
Eclipse PDT in Ubuntu.
Very Very easy. Full instructions here with explanation I will be installomg php, mysql and apache for use with this. If everything else works ok I will have a script develop.sh which will start apache, mysql, and eclipse up. When I quit eclipse it will close down apache and mysql. I will do this to [...]
Nvidia drivers and Firefox
I am used to firefox on windows and expected it to operate in an identical manner. It does for the most part but one thing that is bugging me is that in Windows when you click in the Address bar it gets highlighted and you can start typing a new URL straight away. In linux [...]
Hard drive arrived dual booted Mint Debian
I used a live partion backup cd to backup the windows 7 partitions and restored them to the new hard drive. I then installed Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) Then the fun began. I didn’t expect LMDE to be as user friendly as the standard Linux Mint but I did want a rolling distribution that [...]
elive Linux – First Impressions.
PLEASE NOTE: This is done on the live version of the distro as I haven’t paid for the installer yet and my new hard drive hasn’t arrived anyway. I have just been reading up on the various desktops and E17 seems to be quite popular as a lightweight option. Looking around I found a distribution [...]
Interesting Linux Disties.
Must look at this as I am always in need of a good recovery/disk management live CD. http://partedmagic.com/ I love my music. http://www.musix.org.ar A distie that allows you to manage your server using just a web browser. http://www.zeroshell.net A 6MB linux disti, now thats tiny. if you go up to the 10MB you even get [...]
wp-spamfree update
I have just received a comment to my post regarding wp-spamfree and decided to do a search for other users of wp-spamfree who had had problems. StevoFC has some negative comments but didn’t really look into the cause of the problems. If he had done a little research to find out why the comments were [...]
Upgrading to php 5.2 in Centos 5.x
To enable centos-dev, you need to create /etc/yum.repos.d/centos-test.repo and add the following [c5-testing] name=CentOS-5 Testing baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing Then when you yum update php You will get the latest version. Please note it breaks ioncube and you will need to download the latest version from http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php Thanks to this comment for showing the way.