Category Archives: Software

How to get rid of Unity in Ubuntu 11.10

–> Arghh…and again my beautiful setup was smashed by the Ubuntu 11.10 upgrade today. I hate it when they do that. And I hate Unity. The Canonical people just don’t see that Unity is just not that userfriendly. Here’s how … Continue reading

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10 useful commandline utilities for FreeBSD

Here’s a list of useful commandline utilities for FreeBSD. For all you admins out there… MTR MTR is a traceroute…sort of. It uses ping packets though, not the standard traceroute icmp packets (configurable)   SCREEN Screen keeps your terminal session … Continue reading

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Installing Sun Java on Ubuntu

Sun Java 6 is missing from a standard Ubuntu installation, as well as missing from all of the APT repositories that come prepackaged with Ubuntu – including metaverse, universe, or any other. Ubuntu 10.04 With the release of Ubuntu 10.04 … Continue reading

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Flexible security in Apache subdirectories

When you normally want tight security in some parts of your directorystructure, Apache webserver requires an .htaccess file , something like Satisfy All AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/apache/htpasswd Require valid-user Now, apache here will not only impose security on that directory, but on … Continue reading

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