For those of you that have just installed a fresh new Windows 10, but are finding the settings a little tricky to naviage – or you just want a quick way to access all settings in one place – there is a shortcut you can create. Right click on your desktop and create a new…
In the intel mac era this has become fairly easy and you can use standard linux Distros. There are a few little tweaks which I will mention. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit for this example. You will need to acquire a standard (non-mac) iso from ubuntu.com, and write that to a usb key…
This took me a fair bit of searching to find so in hopes this will help someone else, this is called a Winter Rose Poinsettia. It differs from a regular Poinsettia as it has green curled leaves, along with curled red or twisted red flowers. It has the appearance of a Bouganvillea (or Bouganvillea-like) without…
Usually when checking DNS results a command like the following can be used: dig yourdomainname.com The above will check which DNS servers to query, and then ask those servers to change the name to an IP address. However sometimes there are situations where it should be working but doesn’t appear as you expect. So the roundabout…
If you’re using a linux guest on Virtualbox (that doesn’t have the guest additions installed) you may have noticed the maximum resolution that can be displayed is 1024×768. This is set in the VESA bios within virtualbox – however new modes can be added to it. Make sure your virtual machines are closed, and close…
This is where X respawns constantly, then gives up for 5 minutes. Usually this is a driver issue however I recently had this problem happen out of the blue where it previously worked. The error I was presented with was: waiting for X server to shut down error setting MTRR After digging around the…
What this does is randomly choose RGB values that are bright and colourful, while not being primary colours. It gives the application a much nicer look than standard colours. Below is the code to choose the random colour: // figure out a pleasing colour // adapted from http://martin.ankerl.com/2009/12/09/how-to-create-random-colors-programmatically/ $grc = M_PI / 3; $h =…
Install the php dependencies apt-get install phpmyadmin php5-fpm Modify /etc/nginx/sites-available/default and add the following at the end of the server section location ^~ /phpmyadmin { alias /usr/share/phpmyadmin/; index index.php index.html index.htm; location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; } } To restrict access to a certain IP, add the following…
Create a folder for your new domain within nginx mkdir -p /var/www/yourdomain.com/public_html Fix up the permissions chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/yourdomain.com/public_html chmod 755 /var/www Create a simple page to serve Add the following to /var/www/yourdomain.com/public_html/index.html <html> <head> <title>www.yourdomain.com</title> </head> <body> <h1>Success: You Have Set Up a Virtual Host</h1> </body> </html> Create and modify the new virtual…
A common problem when dealing with AJAX scripts is that the server script (or API) which javascript is calling is required to be on exactly the same domain (subdomain included). Â To open up your server script / API to all domains the following headers are required to be sent before any content: Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Access-Control-Allow-Headers:…