Muffinresearch Labs by Stuart Colville

Archive for the 'Linux/Unix' Category

1. Debugging Elusive Puppet Errors - 8th June 2010
2. Ubuntu: java.net.SocketException in ec2-api-tools - 4th June 2010
3. Adding more disk space to a Linux Virtual Machine - 30th March 2010
4. Linux: Fix for apt-get update – Waiting for Headers - 30th March 2010
5. Solved: VirtualBox Ubuntu Karmic Server VM crashes - 8th February 2010
6. Howto: SSH into VirtualBox 3 Linux Guests - 8th February 2010
7. Ubuntu: Changing the default java binary - 5th December 2009
8. Ubuntu: Lock Screen and Pause Spotify - 22nd October 2009
9. VirtualBox: Error: Cannot register the hard disk - 23rd July 2009
10. BASH: Using brace expansion - 22nd June 2009
11. vim: automatically highlight long lines - 22nd June 2009
12. Bash: turn on case-insensitive tab completion - 6th June 2009
13. Running VMware images under VirtualBox - 4th June 2009
14. Simple Switching of VirtualEnv Environments - 12th May 2009
15. Vim: Setting the colorscheme Doesn’t Work - 28th April 2009
16. VirtualBox: Access Guests via a Virtual Interface - 8th April 2009
17. From OSX to Ubuntu - 5th April 2009
18. Unix Permissions Calculator - 2nd March 2009
19. Puppet: Server Configuration Made Easy - 18th January 2009
20. Checking tarball contents before extraction - 10th November 2008
21. Bash: Resolving Symlinks to Shellscripts - 10th October 2008
22. Ubuntu: change editor globally - 7th October 2008
23. Linux: Changing UIDs and GIDs for a user - 24th September 2008
24. Ubuntu: BUG: soft lockup – CPU#0 stuck for 11s! - 20th August 2008
25. Working around uTidyLib’s unicode handling - 29th July 2008
26. VMWare: Fixing Time Drift in AMD Dual-core Systems - 22nd July 2008
27. FAIL of the week: uTidyLib unicode error - 17th July 2008
28. Ubuntu Hardy: Setting up VMWare-tools from the CLI - 13th July 2008
29. Vmware: “SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0″ after cloning - 13th July 2008
30. No Interfaces Available Using Wireshark on Mac OSX - 2nd June 2008
31. pwdn: show last n dirs of current directory - 2nd April 2008
32. Mac OSX tip: ls command color output - 1st April 2008
33. Django: Switching between development branches - 9th March 2008
34. From the command line to your clipboard and vice versa - 4th March 2008
35. Extracting a single file from a tar backup - 12th November 2007
36. Showing last two directories of pwd in BASH prompt - 25th September 2007
37. BASH: Single-quotes inside of single-quoted strings - 30th January 2007
38. SSH SOCKS Proxy - 19th January 2007
39. MacFUSE: sshfs for your mac - 19th January 2007
40. Dedicated server recovery mode - 1st January 2007
41. Compiling mod_python for MAMP - 20th December 2006
42. Ubuntu Edgy under Parallels Desktop for mac - 3rd November 2006
43. Six useful shell commands for web developers - 16th October 2006
44. vim tip: Fix the cursor keys echoing characters in insert mode - 15th October 2006
45. Concatenating & minimising JavaScript Files in TextMate - 9th October 2006
46. Customising TextMate with commands - 31st August 2006
47. Redirecting subdomains to directories in apache. - 20th August 2006
48. Keeping ssh connections alive - 1st June 2006
49. Ubuntu Breezy Badger install horrors - 18th October 2005
50. fscked up beyond all recognition - 23rd August 2005
51. Ubuntu Ubuntu they drink it in the congo - 2nd August 2005
52. Sendmail Backup MX - 26th October 2004
53. News: Moving on to pastures new and back-up mx - 20th October 2004
54. Suspect SSH activity in server logs - 31st August 2004
55. Linux command locate – useful for err… locating files? - 15th May 2004