I just wanted to review Pokki – Windows 8 start menu replacement which I installed to replace the deeply broken Windows 8 Metro interface. Pros It is free Cons It is really slow and takes ages to load up. It has privacy problems – i.e. it records everything you type into the search and send … Read more
I hate the Metro interface that Windows have introduced in Windows 8. It is totally confusing to have both the desktop and Metro to launch applications from. Basically, the solution is install: Start8 This basically fixes Windows.
If you need to install Postgres 9.3 with development headers (i.e. so that you can compile extensions to Postgres) then hopefully this post can help you. Firstly – don’t use the official Postgres PPA because it only provides binaries and not sources. So, use Chris-Les Postgress PPA found here: https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/postgresql-9.3 I hope this help someone.
If you have just installed Postfix or Sendmail it can be helpful to test if everything is configured correctly. Often you want to do this from the commandline without having to install an entire email client. You can do this by installing a few simple command line mail utilities. Then pipe a message to the … Read more
I upgrade one of our servers from Ubuntu 13.04 to Ubuntu 13.10 and immediately one of the apache sites went wrong. It is was an odd problem because the Apache configuration had not changed and there was nothing unusual about it. I was getting and SSL error like so: It turns out that all I … Read more
If you are trying to configure Apache, it can be handy to see what Apache modules are enabled Ubuntu. Here is how to check which apache modules are enabled/installed. This will provide a list the apache modules which are enabled like so:
I just tried to use the Ansible htpasswd and it said: You just need to check that python-passlib is installed like so:
On our Ubuntu 13.10 server, I had created an apache configuration file for a virtual host however, I could not enable it using a2ensite. The file was here: I tried to enable it: However, the command complained that ERROR: Site www.example.com does not exist! The files clearly exists. It turns out the this command only … Read more
It’s a real pain to change the bitrate of Sound Juicer to actually make the MP3 or Ogg files good quality. For some reason the default quality is terrible and the developers have removed the menu which allows you to change the bitrate. Frankly, this makes Sound Juicer useless as a ripping tool and I … Read more
I have been trying to make curl post request to a script like so: It keep failing with an Apache 213 error like this: The requested resource /api.php does not allow request data with POST requests, or the amount of data provided in the request exceeds the capacity limit. It turns out that you need … Read more