I just upgraded Ubuntu and unfortunately the MediaWiki installation broke. There was no debugging output on the screen (for obvious security reasons). So, I just had a blank page on the screen. The first thing that I did was show the debugging output but editing the LocalSetting.php to enabling After refreshing the page, the error … Read more
I have started to remove the Ubuntu / Cannonical Landscape Client from all my Ubuntu servers because otherwise it is just another service: Running in the background using power Potiential security hole with root permission I don’t actually use it It is quite simple: If Cannonical open sourced the service for Landscape then I would … Read more
I have just been looking at the processes on my laptop and noticed a python process running as a user called ‘conveyor’. I can’t remember adding a user or installing a program called conveyer. It turns out that it was a Makerbot process. So, a quick… …helped sort that out. Why Makerbot doesn’t make a … Read more
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We have a Windows 7 VM running on Ubuntu KVM. I needed to give the Windows 7 machine more disk space. This turns out to be really easy (when you know how). Step 1 – Shutdown the VM Step 2 – Increase the qcow2 image Find the qcow2 file of the VM and take a … Read more
I needed to create a .iso file to make a Windows icon. You need to use icotool which is part of icoutils. Then: Job done.
ng2icns is a great little tool for creating Mac icons on Linux. It comes in the the incsutils package:
To make the installer launch your application after it has been installed you need to add an “Execute launcher” action to your “Finish screen”. You will need to select which launcher for the installer to run.
I am just making an installer for Windows, Mac and Linux using install4j. However, it isn’t clear from the docs how to change the banner image on the left hand side. To set it on the Welcome screen, you need to go to Installer -> Welcome and select the “Images For Banner” property, To change … Read more
Our Bacula server has started failing when backing up its own database. This is a standard job called BackupCatalog. It showed an error like so: 27-Feb 23:29 bacula-dir JobId 6545: shell command: run BeforeJob “/etc/bacula/scripts/<a href=”http://make_catalog_backup.pl” target=”_blank”>make_<wbr />catalog_backup.pl</a> MyCatalog” 27-Feb 23:35 bacula-dir JobId 6545: BeforeJob: mysqldump: Error 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query … Read more