I wrote this article back in 2013. Since then I’ve owned two Volvos. The bad news is that both Volvos that I’ve had this problem. All the problems I’ve had have been caused by the diesel particulate filter and EGR valve. Something goes wrong with the ERG value or a pipe get blocked and then … Read more
I’m interested to see how well it works.
You need to set the permissions on the wp-content so that your webserver can write: Then set the following configuration the your wp-config.php
The package ‘ia32-libs-gtk’ has been removed in Ubuntu 13.10 (I have no idea why). When you try and install it you get the error “Package ‘ia32-libs-gtk’ has no installation candidate”. It seems that most people need this ia32-libs-gtk for installing or running Adobe Air. I have found the solution is: This got Adobe Air working … Read more
I have made a new set of instructions for Installing Balsamiq Mockups on Ubuntu 13.10 because it it is slightly different from installing it on Ubuntu 13.04. Step 1 – Download Adobe Air – http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin. Step 2: Make the installer excutable. Step 3: Try running the installer. Step 4: If your computer is 64bit then … Read more
I just started to install an Ubuntu 13.10 KVM guest – however the build process failed. The command that I was using was: However, I got this error message: Basically, you just need ensure the the linux-image-generic package (i.e. a kernel which supports non-PAE CPU’s) is installed by setting the addpkg flag like so: I … Read more
DebugChannel.com is a great new service / downloadable server to help debug your web application. The key things are that it speeds up debugging because all your debug output can be clearly formatted and shown in the same place. So you can get debug information from php scripts or even apache error logs. This post … Read more
We have just been setting up nginx as a reverse proxy for a node server. Everything worked fine except the socket.io connections weren’t making it through. You make a reverse proxy with: However to make nginx (version 1.3.13 +) reverse proxy socket.io you should add change your configuration to: I learnt this from Chris Lea’s … Read more
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