Microsoft is funny. They have all these sensible settings that they never bother to turn on and then they switch on the most annoying things. One of the things that pisses me off most is how they handle updates. Besides deciding to lock my PC down during shutdown and restart to install updates (because hey, when i shut down my … Continue reading
Disable automatic restart after Windows 7+ update
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Hide Featured Torrent bar and other crap in uTorrent 3.2.2+
Over the last year or so uTorrent has gone from being an ultra simple lightweight bittorrent client to a disorganised confused mishmash of random monetisation ideas and dead end features (Apps? Seriously?). Loading it up for the first time the UI is so cluttered it makes Skype look spartan in comparison. With version 3.2.2 and onwards uTorrent has introduced probably the worst … Continue reading
Setting up MongoDB and PHP on Debian/Ubuntu
Getting a MongoDB server setup and working with PHP is very simple. Installing MongoDB First you need to install MongoDB. This varies slightly depending on whether your system uses upstart (Latest Debian, Ubuntu 9.10+) or SysV style init processes. In either case you will need to add 10gen’s repo to your apt-sources. This ensures your version of Mongo is always … Continue reading
Tunnel your apps via SSH with tsocks
SSH tunnels are a great way to secure your network connections without having to setup any special VPN servers etc… SSH supports creating SOCKS proxies which you can instruct your applications to use – thereby forcing all traffic to pass via an encrypted tunnel between you and your server. Unfortunately not all applications play nice with SOCKS – and some don’t have any way … Continue reading
Site Downtime – All posts 404
Sometime during the last 24 hours all the posts vanished off my site. No posts showed in my admin panel. I checked the database and they were all there. After trying all the “suggestions” online – which basically didnt really help, i ended up selecting all the tables and performing a “repair” operation on them with phpmyadmin. All the posts … Continue reading
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How to Change the Bluetooth Device Name on Linux Mint (13) and Ubuntu 12
Having just installed the latest version of Linux Mint (13 – Maya) I noticed that my bluetooth device name was incorrectl – showing mint-0 instead of my hostname. I could not find any option to change it via the UI – and it’s typically setup to be the host name and the device number (eg host-0). Continue reading