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  • 2011-04-13
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The bash shell - Linux terminal keyboard shortcuts

Hey! Recently found out that there are some quite awesome shortcuts available that I've missed - extremely useful if you use the bash shell in *Nix. To see which one you are using you can type 'chsh' in a terminal - this will tell you if you are using /bin/bash. Go …

  • 2011-04-03
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Ubuntu 11 in VMWare Workstation

Time for another test! This time it's Ubuntu 11.04 Natty. My setup is a Intel Core i7 920 on Windows 7 x64 with 8GB RAM. *** Update 2011-04-29 - I just heard that if you run this in a Virtual Machine you do not get all the shebang on the default …

  • 2011-03-22
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Firefox 4.0 is here! - Or - I went with Google-Chrome instead

Firefox download links: Windows http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%204.0.exe Linux http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-4.0.tar.bz2 Mac http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases …

Playstation 3 - it's purty

Got one this weekend, together with Gran Turismo 5 and Little Big Planet (or something like that), we've only played GT 5 so far but it's pretty darn amazing! It's quite hard but we do win - complete the challenges in the beginner level at least ;) Altogether quite expensive stuff, but …

  • 2011-03-18
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DWM - start up script that works with GDM login manager

Goal: Be able to exit DWM and get back to the GDM - gnome login manager. To be able to hit MODKEY+SHIFT+Q, exit dwm and get me back to the login manager. Where I can chose another user or window manager. Or if I make a change in dwm …

  • 2011-03-12
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Virtualbox - Free OS Virtualization

Had the opportunity to try out virtualbox the other day on RHEL. I really liked the part that the rpm that I downloaded was signed and I had to import the signature to be able to install the package! Feels safe. Install did not cause any other problems for me …

  • 2011-03-09
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Drupal 7

Just installed Drupal 7 on a Debian Virtual Machine. It's so clean and it just feels very solid. Lots of things you can do in there. Probably a good idea to check out drupal's own description of their software before doing anything serious with it. I liked this description: "Drupal …

  • 2011-02-28
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RHEL and web-server

Another thing you will notice if you are used to debian is that RHEL has iptables enabled by default. To alter it you use the 'iptables' command. It is quite complex and there are good guides out there. If you just want to let http and ssh through you can …

  • 2011-02-27
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Time Sync for Linux VMs in VMWare Workstation

You may have seen in my previous post about EyeOS that I tried many things to get time in sync on the virtual OS. It was drifting lots of time and after a few hours it was an hour behind. Google tells me this is quite common but I …

  • 2011-02-24
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Upgrade WordPress 3.x

Hi! If your webhost is running in php safemode then you may run into some issues, for example you cannot do the upgrade of WP automagically via the admin interface and neither can you upgrade plugins manually, which is a hazzle. To do the upgrade follow this guide: http://codex …