I just upgraded one of my Ubuntu Servers to Ubuntu 16.04. The media wiki installation shopped working because it now comes with PHP 7. I tried upgrading mediawiki to the latest version but this didn’t seem to work either. I can’t seem to find out if Mediawiki support PHP 7. So, I thought I would … Read more
I have just started to upgrade some servers to Ubuntu 16.04. It looked good until I rebooted to the server and the Apache2 service didn’t start up properly. I view the logs in systemd. Using the command: systemctl status apache2.service ● apache2.service – LSB: Apache2 web server Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apache2; bad; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: … Read more
The U.K. Governments new contract which they imposing on the junior doctors is terrible. Here is a well written article explaining why is it so bad: http://www.drphilhammond.com/blog/2016/03/09/private-eye/the-junior-doctors-dispute-explained-simply-but-in-detail/ I will be supporting their strikes.
There are two ways of move the Unity menu from the side to the bottom. You can either move the launcher to the bottom using a single command line statement or dconf. The best way is just to cut and paste this command into a terminal gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher launcher-position Bottom This setting will … Read more
I am running Firefox on Ubuntu and the default paper size was US Letter. I wanted to set the default paper size to A4. There isn’t a graphically interface to do this. So you have to: Visit about:config Search letter You should have a result with a value of na_letter. Double click to modify and … Read more
My friend has a reasonably new Mazda MX3. Unfortunately she could not get her phone to connect to the Mazda’s bluetooth. The main problem was that the Mazda bluetooth never appeared as a device on her iPhone. She asked me to help and we followed the instructions in the manual. The instructions for connecting a … Read more