I’m a fan of Ubuntu Unity, however like all desktops there a few little niggles. I wanted to change the behavior of the Ubuntu Unity application switcher. The problem is that I have multiple terminals open and I want to be able to switch between them. However the alt-tab behaviour only allows you to switch … Read more
I’m just playing around with Python Twitter Tools but given that I am new to Python, I can’t work out to set it up. Step 1: Download and unzip the files from: https://github.com/sixohsix/twitter Step 3: Install python-pip on your computer which is a tool for installiing Python software: apt-get install python-pip Step 4: Browse the … Read more
I’ve just installed SyntaxHighlighter on this blog to style the code snippets. The default font-size was too large for the website. They don’t seem to have any documention or setting to adjust the font-size. The solution is to add some custom css to your theme style:
I wanted to pipe the output of my Apache’s error logs to a Python script. To do this you need to set the a CustomLog directive in your Apache Config. Edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and add the following line: To read the input into Python you need to setup a non-blocking read from stdin. Obviously, this script … Read more
To make changes to a HP raid array while the server is running you need to first install the HP PSP pack. Instructions for installing this are : located here. You then need to use the “HP Array Configuration Utility CLI” called hpacucli. To show all raid array’s setup I have a HP server with … Read more
If the root user is getting mail on your server (for example from cron scripts) then it can really helpful to forward it to an external email address. There are two ways of doing this: 1) The easiest and quickest way is to make a file in the folder called /root/.forward and place your email … Read more
I just wanted to add a user to our database with REPLICATION SLAVE privileges. The Ansible module docs suggest that would do this: However you get an error messages saying “this module requires key=value arguments”. The error was caused by the space between REPLICATION and SLAVE. The answer is to put the privilege in quotes: … Read more
I have a simple build script which installs wkhtmltophf on a server. However I only want this script to be run if the software isn’t already installed. Essentially, I want an if statement or check statement in Ansible. I.e. If file doesn’t exist then run this command. I have read the Ansible documentation multiple times … Read more
You can batch rename files in Ubuntu using the “rename” command. It should be installed by default – so no need to apt-get install. The command is quite simple: For example renaming: google_marker_green.png google_marker_blue.png etc… To: map_marker_green.png map_market_blue.png etc… Hope this helps someone.
I’m just building a map of some ip addresses and need to geolocate them. I decided to use the MaxMind database. I found these two brilliant resource without which I could not have imported the databases properly. There are: http://www.dbasquare.com/2012/06/01/implementing-efficient-geo-ip-location-system-in-mysql/ http://nickbartlett.com/wordpress/using-maxmind-geo-city-lite-database-on-your-website/