Quick Thoughts
- @mungler
Congrats!2011/01/24 10:20 - @mungler
Oh yeah, I forgot about the phone thing... (too early perhaps?)2011/01/15 10:06 - @mungler
But why would they do it to have a jab at Apple? They don't really compete on anything, except maybe webkit based browsers?2011/01/15 09:11 - Uh-oh -- Newhaven Big Cat... www.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Do-giant-paw-prints-mean.6686399.jp2011/01/12 11:38
- Moved another server to #Linode, this time from #dreamhost.2011/01/02 09:48
- Moved a server from #slicehost to #linode at the weekend. Twice the memory for the same price, this side of the Atlantic and 0% steal time.2010/11/15 12:38
- Just realised that Jude has over 100 hair dyes for sale on Go #HairCrazy
http://haircrazy.com/category/hair-dye/unnatural-colours/2010/10/28 14:42 - Also, while I'm moaning about #Dreamhost. If you are going to move my server, more than 24 hours notice would be nice.2010/10/27 11:32
- You guys, don't put a downpipe into my garden when I'm on holiday ok?
My garden is not a drain. Also, the gate it locked for a reason. kthx2010/10/27 11:22
- @whooba
Webmail is still up. But that doesn't make it suck less.2010/10/27 11:45
- @mungler
Category Archives: How-to
Speeding up Liferea
Liferea was taking a couple of minutes to open for me, so I thought I’d look for a solution to that. I have >100 feeds, but I’m not about to cut the amount down (not addicted, honest). Liferea stores a … Continue reading
Handy Hints: Emptying log files
When emptying log files, don’t just rm log_file.log as the disk space won’t be freed until the application that is logging is restarted. It is better to use > log_file.log as that will allow the file system to free the … Continue reading
Handy Hints: What is using up my disk space?
Here are some commands I use to find out what is eating all of my disk space on a remote server: df -h Shows how much disk space is available. The -h means that you get G for gigabytes, M … Continue reading
git-svn new branches don’t show up…
Working with git-svn I noticed that new branched didn’t show up when I did the usual git svn rebase to get the remote changes. After a bit of searching and not coming up with much, I worked out that git … Continue reading
Enabling bash/git auto-completion in Ubuntu
I now use git quite a lot for various projects. I noticed that on one computer I had very handy tab completion, and the other one did not. They are both running Ubuntu 8.10, so there shouldn’t be a difference. … Continue reading
Handy Hints: tail | grep
When trying to track an issue in log files on a live system, I find it handy to tail the logs. If the logs are being populated to quickly too find what I am looking for, I would pipe tail … Continue reading
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SSH tricks: Forward and Reverse Tunneling for Fun and Profit
SSH or Secure SHell is a protocol for connecting to a remote computer’s shell securely. Many people use it for just this purpose, but there are several less used, yet extremely useful tricks you can use to get more out … Continue reading
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Recovering photos from a formatted camera…
I’ve just come back from my sister-in-laws wedding. It was great and we took some really good photos. (When I see we, I mean Jude took some really great photos, and I cut some peoples head off). Unfortunately, we accidentally … Continue reading
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