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Posted on February 18, 2010 by Chris

Well one of my gripes with Ubuntu 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’ has been cured at least, Firebug 1.5 now works after upgrades to Firefox 3.5.8. Shame that I’ve found out my bash completion is broken.

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Why do I bother?

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Chris

Updated my desktop from Ubuntu ‘Jaunty’ 9.04 to Ubuntu ‘Karmic’ 9.10, the upgrade process worked flawlessly. Sadly the number of regressions has kind of taken the shine of the various improvements to the distribution. The big kicker for me is … Continue reading →

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Vacuum Firefox on Ubuntu

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Chris

It was suggested to me to use vacuum places to improve my Firefox awesome bar performance, as I’m still using Firefox 3.0 which is packaged with Jaunty; I do have 3.5 installed I just use it for testing sites at … Continue reading →

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X2X

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Chris

X2X is this awesome little utility I found which allows you to control an X session on a remote computer with the keyboard and mouse on your local computer, by remote computer I for example mean the laptop sat beside … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Game

Posted on June 8, 2008 by Chris

I’m not sure what I can really say to that, other than n00b!

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Blocking SSH Brute Force attempts using iptables

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Chris

After my recent break in I have looked into ways of protecting SSH and my server resources. I employ fail2ban on my main server, it has the resources to run such a programme – my Linksys NSLU2′s however do not. … Continue reading →

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Broadcast Ping

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Chris

You can tell Linux to respond to broadcast pings by running this snippet from the console. $ echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts Edit /etc/sysctl.conf to set the option permanently.

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Packages

Posted on July 15, 2007 by Chris

I have been playing with packaging for Ubuntu and Debian for a while now and I have one fairly useful package called rsnapshot-scripts which contains a bunch of scripts for use with rsnapshot. It allows you to backup other data … Continue reading →

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Grub Scripted Configuration

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Chris

This is a really ugly sed one liner that configures grub how I like it. $ sudo sed –in-place ‘s/#\(hiddenmenu\)/\1/;s/^\(timeout[ \t]*\)[0-9]*/\12/;s/^\(# lock.*=\)false$/\1true/’ /boot/grub/menu.lst $ _GPASSWD=$(read -s -p “Enter Grub Password (note type carefully): ” _GPASSWD; echo $_GPASSWD | mkpasswd –hash=md5 … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu lirc Configuration

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Chris

I keep meaning to document this, the installation procedure for my MCEUSB2 remote control with lirc under Ubuntu, so here we go. $ sudo aptitude install lirc lirc-modules-source module-assistant debconf-utils $ wget http://static.cs278.org/conf/debconf/ubuntu-704_lirc-modules-source -O- | sudo debconf-set-selections $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure … Continue reading →

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