PostgreSQL vs MS SQL…
I just read this awesome comparison of PostgreSQL vs MS SQL.
Year: 2014
Great Image Viewer for Mac OS X … Lyn image browser
Apple Mac OS X is a brilliant OS but unfortunately it’s missing a good image viewer. In comparison, Windows has Preview and Ubuntu has the Gnome Image Viewer both of which are great. I did some research and the image browser i found was Lyn Image Browser. I like it so much… I thought I … Read more
How give a user permission to run a specfic command as root Ubuntu
Sometimes it can be really useful to give a user privileges to run a specific command as root. For example – if you wanted to allow a user to restart a specific service or run a specific program as root without given them access to the whole server. You can configure this using visudo command … Read more
Strictly Come Dancing… Pointless Celebrities?
Saw this and think it sums it up…
paramiko.SSHException: Incompatible ssh peer (no acceptable kex algorithm) ubuntu 14.04
I was trying to sftp some files using Python Paramiko on Ubuntu 14.04 and got the following error: “paramiko.SSHException: Incompatible ssh peer (no acceptable kex algorithm)”. It turns out that there is an incompatibility issue with OpenSSH 6.7 and Paramiko with a version less than 1.15.1. At the time of writing (November 2014) Ubuntu 14.04 … Read more
How to allow incoming pings through Synology Firewall
I have a few Synology NAS at work which are used for storage. I have been locking down the firewall on them to only allow certain ports from specific IP subnets. However, I still wanted to be able to ping the Synology from anywhere. I couldn’t work out how to configure the Synology firewall to … Read more
How to monitor bandwidth on Ubuntu Server
I wanted to monitor the bandwidth usage on my Ubuntu server without a full blown graphic monitoring system but something that I could just check once in a while just to see how things are running. I found an really simple tool called vnstat. It’s good because it’s simple, fast and easy to use and … Read more
How to stop .ds_store files being created in Apple OSX
I use source control while developing software. Apple’s OSX creates .DS_Stores files in any folder that you browse with Finder. These are normally hidden but they obviously aren’t ignored by version control which is designed track everything including hidden files. I could add them to the .ignore files in both Mercurial or Git – but … Read more
Firefox Spell Checker Doesn’t Work In Apple Mac OSX – How to fix…
I’ve moved from Ubuntu to Apple Mac OSX and like to use Firefox. However, rather annoyingly the Firefox spell checker doesn’t appear to work on Apple by default. Bizarrely, it doesn’t highlight any incorrect spellings. I found that the only way to fix it was to add another dictionary to Firefox. Here is how I did … Read more
Vitamins in face wipe – what?
I just read the packaging from some face wipes that I’m using while traveling. Apparently they contain vitamin b5 and e. Given that you can’t absorb nutrients from a face wipe and it just shows how made up the marketing of these products really is. Bring on the advertising standard agency.