As I may have mentioned, I recently reinstalled Ubuntu (had been using Windows 7 for a few months). Since the reinstall I had changed my… Read More »Fix for “Current Password No Longer Matches Keyring”
Problem: sshd does not appear to start on system boot, but runs fine when started from a terminal with /etc/init.d/ssh start Update Dec 2010: Thanks… Read More »[Solved] sshd Does Not Run At System Startup (Ubuntu)
Update: Still using this 8 years later, but in the form of a quick script, which is useful if you are doing it more than… Read More »Extract A Single Image From A Video Using FFMPEG
This turned out to be dead easy, although it took a bit of futzing around due to my own slowness. The situation arose during an… Read More »Connect to a WPA/WPA2 Secured Network In Linux
(Jump to the bonus section on sorting a removed Gnome panel) I finally got round to doing the Jaunty->Karmic upgrade on a troublesome machine. Well,… Read More »Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Upgrade Problem Fixed (mountall/init)
For those of you who don;t follow my other blog, I’m in Barcelona at the moment. I’m here to learn Spanish and chew bubblegum. And… Read More »Linux Saves The Day
Another useful tip I’m sure most people will be familiar with, but in bash scripts $# stores the number of arguments passed to the script.… Read More »Count Arguments In A Bash Script
So I’m suppose to be revising for the Big Test™ that I’ve got tomorrow, but instead I decided to reboot in Ubuntu. And by gosh,… Read More »Back to Ubuntu
Due to the pressures of university (labs, reports, and a dissertation), coupled with some of the other things I’ve been doing I haven’t posted here… Read More »Irritation: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”)