Tag Archives: Linux

Automatic Lossless JPEG Optimisation

Just stumbled upon this little program which optimizes JPEG images. In my directory of thumbnails it saved an easy 20KB for only 16 images, so that’s not half bad if you ask me. Every little bit helps I’ve been working on a little gallery in Zend Framework, and am generating thumbnails in a cache dir. [...]

Linux Mint Menu in Ubuntu (Lucid) by using the Mint Repo

This has been popping up on sites today, and people are installing from .deb files downloaded out of the Mint repo’s. Now, I like to keep my software up-to-date and thus don’t like installing loose .deb files without adding the repo where they came from. Just a note of warning: this is meant for Ubuntu [...]

Auto start Teamspeak 3 Ubuntu

Before I start I am asuming you have already downloaded your copy of teamspeak 3 and unpacked it. For reference I will assume the path to where you unpacked TS3 is: /home/ts3/teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64 Now to make an autostart script you can actually just reuse the one that comes with TS3: ts3server_startscript.sh The only thing I did [...]

Upgraded VPS from Karmic (9.10) to Lucid (10.4)

I followed the really simple guide posted by my VPS hoster for upgrading my VPS to Ubuntu Lucid. It took quite a while to run, but after adding a single row to /etc/fstab it restarted without problems! Seriously, I didn’t change a single thing and everything “just worked”.. That’s how it’s supposed to be! Now [...]

Discover Motherboard Make & Model in Linux

I never knew how to do this before, and never really needed it since I pretty much know my motherboard models by heart. However, with the increasingly weird model numbers these days from companies like Gigabyte and Asus I can’t seem to remember them anymore. I also have way too many computers to take care [...]

Linux Kernel 2.6.35

It seems this new kernel is something to get a little excited about! For more information than I can give to you in a sane manner check out this page: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_35 A list of things that have changed: Transparent spreading of incoming network traffic load across CPUs Btrfs improvements XFS Delayed logging KDB kernel debugger [...]

Howto reinstall mysql-server on Ubuntu (Lucid)

After messing around with mysql-server a bit too much lately, I’ve managed to break it completely. So much so, in fact, that I couldn’t just reinstall it.. It took quite a bit of time before I figured out the only working method for me to reinstall properly. First I run a sudo dpkg -l |grep [...]

Unattended Ubuntu Installation

Quote: In creating Ubuntu Linux, Canonical has focused on ease of use, and this extends to the install procedure. To this end, Ubuntu eschewed many of the detailed questions that had discouraged potential Linux users of an earlier era. However, despite relative improvements in that area, the installation is still peppered with questions. This means [...]

Ubuntu Lucid (10.4) + Wine1.2 RC5 + uTorrent

Ok, turns out this combination of software is not stable. It was crashing my, otherwise perfectly stable, homeserver after about 10-15 minutes. It took me a while to discover the problem, but eventually I figured it out. Solution: remove the wine-ppa from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and reinstall the original wine1.2 from the Ubuntu repo. Just thought this [...]

Ubuntu Lucid Thoughts

Lucid has been out for quite some time now, and I’ve been running it successfully on my homeserver since beta 3. There have been quite a few updates since then and it seems the OS has finally stabilized quite well. My server is running perfectly, and so far I have had no major problems with [...]