With my slow move over to nginx I’ve been finding the odd niggle to solve. Today’s one was the inability for my wordpress installations to use the automatic upgrade facility whilst running on nginx. Instead it kept asking to fall back to ftp for upgrading. On apache, this can occur when your wordpress directory does [...]
Lots going on at the moment. I’m migrating most of mine and my clients websites to nginx from apache in preparation for moving everything to a new server. First thoughts? Nginx is super fast, reasonably easy to configure (once you figure out the php issues) and saves a heap on memory. Downside? I’ve had the [...]
Whenever you have pesky windows users on your network, your file system on any servers running samba start to gain extra, silly, “Thumbs.db” files. If you’re like me and hate the things with a vengeance, you can get rid of every single one of them using the linux command line below. updatedb;for i in `locate [...]
Today I got my DViCO FusionHDTV Pro (dvb-t) card working under mandriva linux in Melbourne, Australia. I’ve been wanting to do this for years and has actually been the major stopper in Mandriva becoming my primary OS on my desktop (besides my laptop(s), wifes laptop, friends laptops, and all my servers). I always figured I [...]
ZuFeed is a new website designed to help you access the latest news, updates and other information. The website is currently in “beta” mode, so please excuse any bugs. You can decide what you want to see by creating custom collections of information and everything up to date with the latest information as it arrives. [...]