OpenSource software should be encouraged more…
UUID stands for Universally Unique Identifier and is used to univocally identify a partition.
This is more reliable than /dev/hd* or /dev/sd* since it doesn’t change between system boots.
All filesystems should be specified by UUID=<id> (or also LABEL=<name>) for each partition.
Lab[……]
Let me explain what I want to do first since the title might be misleading.
I want to launch a GUI on my local environment that belongs to a remove server.
For example, there are times on which it’s easier changing a setting via a GUI rather than the command line.
An easy way to achieve this safe[……]
Sometimes you have to load a LV (logic volume) that is “not part of the main file system”.
Other times you might have to mount a LV from a live CD, maybe to recover some data or a system that is not booting anymore (which is my case right now).
In both cases it needs to be done manually.
Instal[……]
Netbeans 7 is out. I’ve been using it for PHP, at work as well as at home, for almost two years and I have to say that it has become by far my favourite PHP IDE.
The Netbeans IDE is a project started in 1996 for Java. PHP support started since version 6.5 (late 2008). Since then, version after ve[……]
Every time Linux generates a system email it sends it to the root user.
I don’t normally check that email so I needed to send it to another email address.
The simplest way I found to do this is creating a hidden file called “.forward” in /root/ and add my email address to it. Nothing else!
If y[……]
When you install MediaWiki it allows new accounts creation out of the box.
This is not always the behaviour I want. Unfortunately there isn’t an option to disable it from the classic menu “my preferences”.
In fact, to disable it, a line of code needs to be added in the configuration file “LocalS[……]
Sometimes I need to test the email functionality of a php website on my local machine. The best and easiest (to configure) way I found so far is using sendmail as smart host.
A smart host is a software which allows an SMTP server to route email to an intermediate mail server rather than directly to[……]
Do you often have the need, or want the pleasure, to try a new operating system?
Do you prefer using a “real machine” rather than creating a virtual one (like VMware or Virtualbox for instance)?
Have you got a spare machine for this purpose?
Ok, if you responded “Yes” to all the above, please rea[……]
Connecting to a Linux box with an algorithm for public-key cryptography like RSA is, firstly, more secure and, secondly, more convenient.
More secure because, as the Ubuntu documentation sais: “Key-based authentication is the most secure of several modes of authentication usable with OpenSSH, suc[……]
There is a right and wrong way of editing a WordPress theme. If you modify the original one, every time there is an update all your changes will be lost. Yes, you guessed it. This is the wrong way!
Since WordPress 3.0 child themes are extremely easy to implement.
What are child themes?
As Wordp[……]