Over the last 6 months I have been using subversion (Svn) to version control all of the code I work on. I chose it at the time as it was so simple to setup on windows. VisualSVN Server gave me an all in one application that runs on my SBS server, coupled with TortoiseSVN integration [...]

Read the rest of this article.

I had planned on writing up a small tute on how to get Airprint working on Ubuntu linux, but my good friend SDBillin has already done it. So instead of hashing it out here I am just going to link to his page. SDBillins Airprint on UbuntuShare this:Share

Read the rest of this article.

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 It is probably slightly outdated by now as the Karmic has been released but you will get the general idea and can use them in any tutorial you see fit.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 [...]

Read the rest of this article.

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, [...]

Read the rest of this article.

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 [...]

Read the rest of this article.