Tag Archives: Linux

New Hosting

Posted on April 9, 2009 by John

Got myself some new hosting over at lindoe. Virtual linux server all to myself. Spent a day trying out the configuration and decided to go with a Ubuntu 8.10.

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Problems With Yum On Fedora 10

Posted on April 1, 2009 by John

So every now and again YUM stops working and throwing out error messages usually after I’ve been to uni. rpmdb: Thread/process 4348/3087935168 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery … Continue reading →

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Get PDF Word Count In Linux

Posted on March 28, 2009 by John

Quick easy way to get the word count of a pdf. # pdfwc.sh # usage ./pdfwc.sh filename.pdf # TMPFILE=___tmpfile.tmp pdftotext $1 $TMPFILE wc $TMPFILE -w rm $TMPFILE

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Cruise Control.NET Tray Tool on linux

Posted on March 19, 2009 by John

I started looking at creating a port of the cctray tool for CruiseControl.NET but after looking at how it was implemented i decided that it might be easier, and more fun, to implement one myself using mono and GTK#. At … Continue reading →

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University of Brighton Wireless Network from Linux

Posted on February 9, 2009 by John

Wireless 1. Using the contents of the from ’Pem File Contents’ and create a file called uob.pem 2. Select ’University of Brighton’ from the wireless networks list 3. Make sure the settings are as follows a) Wireless Security: WPA & … Continue reading →

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