Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

Oh crap, I just killed my screen session.

December 16th, 2009

Fill and span DVD archives with Discspan

4 Comments, Linux, by Donncha.

I have a huge archive of photos. I shoot tens of thousands of photos every year. Storage requirements for all…

November 23rd, 2009

WordPress, Nginx and WP Super Cache

32 Comments, WordPress, by Donncha.

If you host your own WordPress blog, it’s probably on Apache. That all fine and good. For most sites Apache…

November 11th, 2009

How to create Postfix database files

5 Comments, Linux, by Donncha.

Every time I come to recreate the Postfix database file when I edit the file /etc/postfix/virtual.cf I forget what command…

October 29th, 2009

Reasons to upgrade your Ubuntu

9 Comments, Linux, by Donncha.

ubuntu.com is down unfortunately. The release of Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, is obviously driving…

October 23rd, 2009

Slowly learning Dvorak

19 Comments, Hardware, by Donncha.

At the recent Automattic meetup in Quebec Matt gave a passionate talk about how great the Dvorak keyboard layout was…

If you’re using the latest version of Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackalope, or version 9.04 and you use a laptop with an…

August 20th, 2009

Upgraded my Dell D630 to 4GB RAM

8 Comments, Linux, by Donncha.

That was quick:

Order placed with Crucial yesterday afternoon around 1.30pm for 2 sticks of 2GB RAM.
UPS guy called…

Modern computers use CPUs with multiple cores for performance reasons. Software can take advantage of that and use both cores…

I don’t know when this happened but my external USB drives were running really slow. Reading RAW images off them…


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