I finally got round to installing Urchin 6 (beta) this evening.As my personal servers are running Ubuntu I opted for the source install, however for some reason Urchin sees it as Fedora? It works, but it's a very odd thing to report...As the software is commercial you have to get a license. Fortunately once it's installed you can simply follow the wizard to get your license key … [Read more...] about Urchin 6 Beta – First Impressions
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Urchin 6 Finally In Beta!
Urchin announced its acquisition by Google approximately 3 years ago.I'd been in talks with Urchin prior to the acquisition and had installed a trial version of the software. The main difference between the Urchin software and the SAAS was that one is installed on your server and reads your logs (a bit like Awstats) while the other uses a bit of Javascript in your pages to … [Read more...] about Urchin 6 Finally In Beta!
No More Internet Explorer!
AIB finally upgraded our company account to use their new system which supports "real" Java and my choice of browser (Firefox).It seems they have been migrating companies across to the new system over the last few months.We now all have a little calculator sized "doda" called a "digipass" which basically generates a lot of random numbers.DownsidesI had to change my password's … [Read more...] about No More Internet Explorer!
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and Envy
As I've mentioned previously, my graphics card is a little bit problematic. I had pretty much forgotten about the issues since I discovered "envy", which did a wonderful job of sorting out the correct Nvidia driver for me.Unfortunately when I upgraded my desktop to Ubuntu Gutsy yesterday I ran into issues. While the upgrade itself went fine (as far as I can see!) envy simply … [Read more...] about Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and Envy
How to Find Commands in Your Bash History
One of the things that drives me mad is typing long commands or sequences that I need to type over and over again.Luckily there is a way to search your previous commands in bash.Simply type CTRL R and you will get a new command prompt. Then start typing part of the command.To keep looking back through other instances of the command just keep hitting CTRL R. Once you've found … [Read more...] about How to Find Commands in Your Bash History