Category Archives: Linux

Useful RANCID Debugging Tips

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Barry O'Donovan

I always find it difficult to find a good reference for RANCID debugging strategies and, after spending the afternoon on doing same on one installation, put together my own list. Head over to my article on the company blog for the … Continue reading →

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GIMP: Change Background from Black / White to Transparent

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Barry O'Donovan

This is one that I find myself Googling for regularly but spend time wading through poor results and solutions: http://brainsongimp.blogspot.com/2008/03/black-and-white-jpg-to-transparent-png.html

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Changing a User’s UID on Apple XServe / Snow Leopard

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Barry O'Donovan

Due to exporting NFS file systems from Linux boxes to an XServe, I had need to match the new users’ UID on the XServe to the Linux UIDs. Unfortunately this was not so obvious. There’s a good how-to here: http://www.inteller.net/notes/change-user-id-on-snow-leopard

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Fix for Silly Annoying FreeBSD PHP Ports Errors

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Barry O'Donovan

The following occurs quite regularly on FreeBSD: Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script. and when fixed, it’s followed up by: Cannot find autoheader. Please check your autoconf installation and … Continue reading →

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Irish Radio Stations on Linux

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Barry O'Donovan

I’m a bit of a newstalk junky and like to have the radio on in the back ground. It’s quite painful jumping between websites and even more painful getting them all to work under Linux so I have some simple … Continue reading →

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