Category Archive: Linux

Jan 18

Mass VHOST wildcard, mapping to subdomain to folder

The original problem: Since I jump from project to project a lot, I have lots of project folders.   Summary of the solution: use dnsmasq, and a mass vhost setup.     Problem in detail: Normally, you’d have to: create a subdirector for your project all the standard setup stuff for your project. Setup an …

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May 23

pidgin.im msn protocol alternative: msn-pecan [update #2]

Okay, Been working with pidgin w/msn-pecan on ubuntu 10.04.  New problem, pecan doesn’t crash pidgin anymore, however I am logged out after I’ve been away from my computer a little bit.  As in, when the screen saver kicks in, pecan logs me out or can’t maintain a connection. Doesn’t seem to happen in windows 7. …

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Mar 01

little project ideas

Just found a need to access my home server… however, it’s powered down… how can I overcome this problem in the future.  To answer my own question…  I should go lookup how to send a wake-on-lan command to the box. As well as know what my IP is… project ideas: 1.) Current IP notifier – send …

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Jan 04

Ubuntu + Mysql setup

Wow, that was so painless. Original Post Use your favourite means to install mysql, probably apache, php, phpmysqladmin as well… sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start mysqladmin -u root password myPassword where myPassword is your actual password. to test mysql -u root -p enjoy

Oct 14

Gnome – multiple monitor taskbar window listing

How to/howto get gnome to show what’s running on a given monitor. After having linux installed for a while, leaving pretty much the default install running. I decided to venture out and find how to tweak some usability settings. There is a program called utlramon for windows that already does this [mentioned above]. A Linux …

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