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The Danger of the “rm” command

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If any of you are wondering why the theme has changed completely and several of the plugins etc., have vanished... Well I just taught myself a nice little lesson about the dangers of using the following: rm -r -f * I successfully cleaned up my blog by killing it :) Oh well! It was about time I cleaned up, as there were plugins and God only knows what else dating back about 3 … [Read more...] about The Danger of the “rm” command

Migrating And Upgrading ….

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I finally took delivery of my new "toy" yesterday afternoon, so I've added a new server to my personal collection. It's a little HP DL 140 running Ubuntu server which I'll be using for some of my personal projects, such as the webmaster forum and a few other things. Migrating the various sites in from other machines dotted around the place shouldn't be too complicated, but I am … [Read more...] about Migrating And Upgrading ….

Enabling / Disabling Modules / Sites in Apache 2 on Ubuntu

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I really like the way Debian and Ubuntu handle Apache 2 modules and virtual host configurations. By using symlinks between the installed modules and the directory for the active ones, you can easily turn them on and off. It couldn't be easier, or could it? Well it can actually! There are a number of binaries available that can handle all of this even more gracefully (at least … [Read more...] about Enabling / Disabling Modules / Sites in Apache 2 on Ubuntu

Firefox on Ubuntu – Slowing Down?

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For the last few days I've been having issues with Firefox on Ubuntu. Browser windows / tabs become unresponsive for no obvious reason until I end up having to restart it... Flock, on the other hand, is quite fast and responsive. Is this a common issue or do I have a buggy or memory hogging plugin installed? I think I'll be removing all the plugins this evening to see what … [Read more...] about Firefox on Ubuntu – Slowing Down?