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Clearing DNS cache – regex part 2
Trust me. We’re still dealing with regexes – just in a roundabout (and vaguely practical) way. This is a pretty comprehensive listing of how to go about flushing DNS caches while using regexes to show...
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vi no syntax highlight in CentOS?
Well it turns out that the problem is a little more subtle than that. It is only the root user that does not have syntax highlighting. You see, vim does have syntax highlighting but vi and vim are...
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Facebook Stalkers and Privacy Settings
Have we here a Facebook Stalker?! Of great consideration to online privacy are facebook stalkers. If a stalker randomly manages to add a few of your friends and you have your Profile Privacy Settings...
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Middleclick in Linux’ Firefox tries to open the page your clipboard links to
If you’re using *nix and you’ve found this middle-click behaviour annoying, change Firefox‘s middlemouse.contentLoadURL about:config option to false. Big thanks to Ayman Hourieh for the tip.
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Multiple Partitions on a USB memory stick (in Windows)
Peace in the land of USB Under a *nix operating system, having multiple partitions on a USB drive isn’t rocket science, it just works. In my case, my USB drive has two partitions because the first...
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problem with bash when upgrading readline
If you ever find yourself updating a single application in Arch Linux (a very bad idea, btw) and it upgrades readline you might end up seeing an error along the lines of: /bin/bash: error while loading...
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Upgrading Your Cellular Contract
Why I’ve left MTN So I’ve been shopping around in a non-serious fashion in the last few months trying to figure out how best to leave MTN and how get the best deal for me. I don’t like MTN since I...
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Pidgin locked out of Google chat?
It appears that, in infinite wisdom, Google have a security feature that can block an application from accessing or using your google account. I can see how this might be a problem for Google’s users,...
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My server rebuild, part 1 – with Ubuntu, and a vague intro to btrfs
History Much had changed since I last mentioned my personal server – it has grown by leaps and bounds (it now has a 7TB md RAID6) and it had recently been rebuilt with Ubuntu Server. Arch was never a...
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fsck progress bar for ext4
I had a power outage affect my server’s large md RAID array. Rather than let the server as a whole be down while waiting for it to complete an fsck, I had it boot without the large array so I could run...
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