Using mod_rewrite for clean URLs
Say your message board on your blog uses the following request URL to find and display the correct data: http://www.mysite.com/blog/index.php?category=news&year=2012&month=1 This is a rather simple request, but it is not very nice looking or easy on the eye, and it can be improved, for the user end experience. Take this for instance: http://www.mysite.com/blog/news/2012/1 That’s much [...]
VPNetMon – close programs when VPN drops
If you are using a VPN to securely download files, whether it be for anomynous reasons or anything else, if the VPN connection gets dropped, your PC may revert to an unsecured connection to continue the operation. VPNetMon is an application that montors your VPN connection and if it drops, the application can be configured [...]
God, Windows is sloooooow
I am assisting a colleague today check out a rather large feature branch. I showed him the branch address and he started checking it out using Tortoise SVN on Windows 7. Upon returning to my desk (Ubuntu 11.10), I decided to merge the branch with the major trunk. I checked out a brand new copy [...]
Ubuntu, Thunderbird always maximised
I recently switched from Linux Mint back to the old trusty Ubuntu (11.10) One major problem was Unity, but I got round this by installing Xfce and use that as a shell instead. Much better. Now, my Thunderbird is proper maximised. Like full screen, so I can’t switch to any applications unless I use ALT [...]
SVN Externals – how to add them
When creating a Zend Framework site, its always best to keep the Zend library as an external source. This way you can keep the branch up-to-date with the release of Zend with a simple text file. To access the externals file, navigate to the root of your site: > cd /var/www/mysite And add the external [...]
Add all new files to SVN
How to recursively add all new files to SVN > svn add –force * Saves a whole bunch of time when committing a load of new pages via the command line.
Keeping 2 drives sync’ed with rsync on Linux
I have an external USB HDD and I like to keep it synchronised with my desktop for backup reasons. I find the easiest way to do this, is to use rsync: > sudo apt-get install rsync > rsync -avu /source/ /dest/ For example: > rysnc -avu /media/externaldisk/ /home/chris/diskbackup/ Will increment copy everything (ignoring older files) from [...]
HOWTO: Rotate a video in Linux
I videoed something at the weekend on my iphone, but must’ve had the phone upside-down so the video came out that way. Fortunately there is a little program that will rotate a video for you. > sudo apt-get install mencoder Then, to rotate my video clockwise by 90 degrees: > mencoder -ovc lavc -vf rotate=1 [...]
Stopping Ubuntu opening F-Spot when I plug in my iPhone
When I installed Ubuntu, every time I plugged in my iPhone it popped up a prompt asking me what to do about the digital music/photos. After clicking “do nothing” for months I decided to let it open F-Spot to import my photos. This is all well and good, but it now pops up f-spot whenever [...]
Automatic Windows Process Dump Script
I have a laborious task at the moment, of exporting our server process list to see how much memory certain programs are using. I was getting a little bored of remote accessing the server through VNC so decided to use a BAT file to do the work for me. However the problem was, I wanted [...]
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