I’m a long time user, advocate and all-round fan of Linux. In particular, I’ve used Debian or variant distributions and have never had any major issues (well none that weren’t PEBKAC). I’ve been running Debian Sid on my Thinkpad X31 for around three years now, and out of curiosity I thought I’d try out Ubuntu […]
I wanted to upgrade my work machine to Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10) from Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), but the update manager was not showing the distribution/release upgrade button. This is due to 8.04/Hardy being an Long Term Support (LTS) release, and 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) not. Therefore, you’ll first need to enable distribution upgrades in the […]
This blog took nearly 7 thousand hits yesterday. At its peak, it took 1.8 thousand an hour. That’s a decent amount of traffic. This was all brought about when I submitted a link to reddit.com regarding a way to crash Google Chrome instantly. Coincidentally, I had spent an hour or so the night before testing […]
Some time ago, I began hacking away at a simple API (Application Programming Interface) for Eternal Lands written in Python. I intended to write something that was quick and concise, and that would be easy to reuse. Using a typical OO approach, I finally came up with ‘Pyela - Python Eternal Lands API’.
Pyela is an […]
So you’re sitting at work, and your much-loved VPS with hosting company X has gone down. You need to bring it back up, but you’re an hour away from getting to a PC.
Fear not, fellow hacker - SSH over an HTTP proxy is here! Well actually, it’s been here a while. Ahem.
Before you do this, […]
Update: It’s been said that this howto will also work for Tomcat 6. I’ve not tested it, but I’d assume it would work considering the manual aspects of the installation and the unlikely event that Tomcat 6 would’ve changed its directory structure considerably. If you find evidence to the contrary, please let me know.
Introduction
This HowTo […]
I’ve been very busy these last few weeks. The majority of my time has been migrating this site to a new server, provided by slicehost.com (more on them later). My old host had reached its limits, both in its physical-capabilities and my patience with it. In this post i’m going to discuss the migration from […]