by Rob on December 6, 2012, no comments
I’ve been setting up a new blog lately and as I’m familiar with it, I chose WordPress (self-hosted) to power it. I purchased a VPS this time around which only gave me 128MB total RAM to play with, but I thought that should be more than enough to run a low-traffic WordPress blog. After getting [...]
by Rob on May 16, 2009, 24 comments
I have a small low-power x86 machine at home running Debian 5.0. I regularly check for updates to any of the packages I have installed on it, and for a while its been offering an upgrade to MySQL. I dont use MySQL much at home, so I havent been too bothered about keeping that up [...]
by Rob on May 7, 2009, 10 comments
I recently bought an O2 Mobile Broadband ‘Pay & Go’ dongle. The Huawei E160 variety. Its a neat little dongle, which also has a slot for a MicroSD card. A colleague of mine wanted to get some kind of mobile broadband solution for his netbook – an Acer Aspire One. Brilliant little machine. I fancy [...]
by Rob on April 24, 2009, no comments
My iMac broke a few months ago. Nothing too serious, but annoying nonetheless. The Superdrive decided that it would eat any disc that you put in the slot, and would not eject it. You could hear the mechanism whirring away, but then a nice stressful ‘clunk’, as the disc was eaten again. The disc never [...]
by Rob on February 24, 2009, 6 comments
Ubuntu Desktop comes with ‘Terminal Server Client’, which is ‘tsclient’ with a ‘rdesktop’ backend for RDP functions. Generally, I tend not to use the full screen mode, but in this instance I needed to. Unlike the Microsoft Remote Desktop client, there is no pinnable banner at the top of the screen to allow you to [...]
by Rob on February 20, 2009, no comments
Unlike Flash, I like Adobe AIR. It looks promising. I especially like that there’s a Linux and Mac version.The BBC iPlayer is all the better for moving to the AIR platform, and I’m able to use the same version of Twhirl on any of my Windows/Mac/Linux machines. However, I dont like Adobe’s lack of support [...]
by Rob on February 19, 2009, no comments
After installing a fresh copy of Debian 5.0 on my mini x86 server (howto for that still being worked on), I needed to get PHP with FastCGI, MySQL and Lighttpd installed. Here’s an excellent, short and to-the-point guide on getting FastCGI configured for Lighttpd: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/lighttpd-php-fastcgi-configuration.html Of course, this is assuming PHP, MySQL (if required) and [...]
by Rob on February 17, 2009, no comments
On 14th February 2009, Debian 5.0 (lenny) was officially released. For a few years now, I’ve been running Debian GNU/Linux on my Linksys NSLU2 (commonly known as a ‘slug’). I use it to run various services on my home network, but primarily it’s used as an FTP interface to my ‘Toppy’, otherwise known as a Topfield TF5800 [...]
by Rob on February 10, 2009, no comments
I’ve been using VMWare ESX 3.5 for a while now, and whilst pretty much all configuration can be performed using the Virtual Infrastructure Client, there are a few configuration changes that I’ve come across that need to be performed from the command line. These configuration commands are generally prefixed with ‘esxcfg-’, and there are quite [...]