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Ubuntu Audio, YES! Windows XP, NO.

Dec. 12th, 2009 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 2 comments

I run a dual-boot Ubuntu64[1] and Windows XP system. The windows partition really exists for a single purpose, and I occasionally just reboot the machine, choose the XP partition from the Grub menu, and all is well.

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Sticky Groups

Nov. 11th, 2009 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 2 comments

I often deploy web projects in a directory that's not owned by the user under which my webserver runs. Therefor, I often have to change permissions so the webserver can read from or write to certain files. So, for this example, let's assume I'm logged in to my linux box as brad, and I'm using apache which runs under the user www-data.

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Public Keys don't like write access!

March 3th, 2009 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 2 comments

The first part of my Automatic Backups with cron, tar, and SSH details how to set up remote login (sans passwords) using RSA public key.

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Recursively Renaming files

Sept. 9th, 2008 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 1 comment

My hosting provider offers PHP4 and PHP5. Unfortunately, all files ending in .php get interpreted by PHP4, while all files ending in .php5 get interpreted by PHP5. So, how do I quickly change all of my files that end in .php to .php5?

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magic SysRq

Feb. 2th, 2007 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 2 comments

Occasionally I goof up. Yes, as much as I hate to admit it, it's true. However, thanks to this handy tutorial on liquidweather.net, I've learned about some nifty ways to kill things in linux.

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