Last week I recovered a friend’s mp3 library from a 2nd generation iPod. All was well except for that fact that any music put onto the iPod is given a random file name such as C00XY.mp3. Not helpful. After scratching my head and thinking that we would have to rename most of the files manually, [...]

I’ve just completed the first DNS and DHCP server that I’ve built for a while. This was using Ubuntu Linux 8.04. The nice thing about the process this time around as opposed to when I set one up a couple of years ago is that I was a little more au fait with the process. [...]

Webdav is a very handy protocol for writing files back and forth across the internet. I’ve never really had much call for it – but I’m all for it lately as I’m trying out Alfresco and would really love to see a better way to upload files than the basic web-bsaed uploader that is provided. [...]

I had a shocking error of judgement this morning when I accidentally deleted some of my son’s photos from his toy digital camera. They were sitting on my desktop, and I was on a cleanup… These were a casualty of my cleanup-fest and obsession with the shift key. Thinking on a Windows vein – I [...]

When you’re stuck without sysop access to MediaWiki because you cannot remember the sysop details then there’s a handy maintenance script that’s available (if you’ve used the package manager) to reset the sysop username and password. On Ubuntu server you can run the following command: php /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/changePassword.php –user=sysop –password=password The script will immediately reset your [...]

I had a little trouble running Ubuntu server on VirtualBox today. Thankfully the answer was easily found at Installing Ubuntu 8.04 server on VirtualBox « {S.A.Z.W.Q.A}. All you need to do to get Ubuntu server firing up is to open the settings screen for your virtual machine, and then tick the Enable PAE/NX box. Click [...]