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.
The sudo command checks the permission of the /etc/sudoers file and also the contents of /etc/sudoers.d/ before allowing you to use the sudo command. For example you might be warned: or perhaps: Therefore, if you don’t have root login (which is generally good security practise) then you might not be able to change the permission … Read more
The Oxford to Heathrow Airline Bus doesn’t go to Heathrow Terminal 4. You get dropped off at Terminal 5 and then need to make your own way to Terminal 4. I found it super confusion and therefore thought I would write some directions to Terminal 4 are to: 1) Go to Level 0 2) Go … Read more
One of our Apache 2.4 web servers strangely stopped working and didn’t want to come back up. I tried to start it but it came back with a vague error message: A quick look in /var/log/apache2/error.log just showed nothing useful: So, I ran the Apache configuration check tool on the configuration files but the syntax … Read more
I’ve been working on a commercial project where we would have liked to use Ghostscript. To use ghostscript in a commercial settings (i.e. to distribute it alongside binary code) you need to have a license. At the time of writing (September 2014) – the costs for this are rather prohibitive: There is a minimum $8000 … Read more
It’s a classic mistake. You buy an ipod, import all your music into itunes, sync it onto the ipod… then at some point loose the computer. Suddenly, your ipod has all of your music on it and you can’t get it off. Don’t panic… there is hope but it does cost you $35. Yes, there … Read more