It appears that the commenting system was broken. It has only just come to my attention after an upgrade pointed it out. It was an old plugin that I was using and it has now been deactivated until I can fix it. Sorry to anyone who has tried posting a comment and it failed.

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There are a lot of posts and messages going around stating that you need to repost it to prevent Facebook from closing your account down. Let’s get this straight. This is obviously bullshit. I first had this message 3 weeks ago, I did not post it and fuck me if I am not still active [...]

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I have taken a load of screenshots of the Ubuntu Server install process. It is probably slightly outdated by now as the Karmic has been released but you will get the general idea and can use them in any tutorial you see fit. I have prepared a zip file so you can grab them all [...]

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Having the “/home” directory tree on it’s own partition has several advantages, the biggest perhaps being that you can reinstall the OS (or even a different distro of Linux) without losing all your data. You can do this by keeping the /home partition unchanged and reinstalling the OS which goes in the “/” (root) directory, [...]

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Recently I had need to generate random passwords. I did not want to make a script for it and I certainly did not want any applications to do the tasks. Here is the command line argument for such a task: </dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ | head -c8 Note that the ‘tr’ strips out everything except [...]

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