Recently I had a problem. After having my 4yo son fiddle with my laptop for a few hours, my laptop locked itslef with no wireless. Pressing the WiFi button didn’t help at all. After some hours of researching I found a solution. Here is it below. Hope it saves a few people some hours of troubleshooting:
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Jun 24
Jun 09
Now, even though it might seem simple, there are qute a few factors to look for when considering buying a car. Now, let’s go through the basic ones:
Does the car have the features you want it to? Some of the features could be:
- Electric front/rear windows
- Electric mirrors
- Heated front/rear windscreen
- CD Player
- Air Con
- Front fog lights
- GPS
- Fuel economy counter (MPG counter)
Simple, right? Well the next thing also isn’t that bad. COnsider the car type you want. Small MPV, 4 seater, saloon, etc. List the car types you want to consider. Check the size of boot and width/lenght of car as well. Now, look at different models of the cars you are considering. Well, here the math starts.
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Mar 18
ProFTPd is the best FTP server I found for linux. It is not only very flexible, fast and secure, it also allows configurations with virtual MySQL users. This makes ProFTPd perfect for small and large configuration, inclusive of domain hosting services. This tutorial will walk you through the installation process of ProFTPd with a MySQL database.
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Mar 18
“Linux Server – Perfect Setup” is a manual that will walk you through setting up a perfect server, step by step. It is based on Ubuntu and tested on 8.04 LTS and the newest at the point of writing – 9.10. It will turn your box into an all-in-one server (something like M$ Windoz 2003 Small Business Edition – but without the limitations 
).
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Mar 18
The most popular use of linux servers: LAMP! It stands for Linux Apache MySQL PHP and is a very stable and well known configuration of a web server. Let’s install it then!
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Feb 21
Administering DNS in Linux is in fact really simple. The first-time configuration though can prove quite tricky. Just follow the instructions that follow to have your DNS server setup using bind9 – the most popular and reliable dns server.
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Feb 21
The old website of glonek.co.uk is still active in case you need something from it.
The link is http://www.glonek.co.uk/old-site
Feb 07
PulseAudio should die. This is the basic truth. It’s got delays and causes choppy sound for a huge amount of people. Most of use use only PCI sound cards with skype and gnome MPlayer which work just fine with PA. But try playing games with wine or even native games such as supertuxkart. It’s not going to work. PulseAudio develops a choppy sound – so choppy it sounds as if it went through a mixer. Especially if using things like USB Headsets.
Sadly you can’t fix it in Mint 8 (and Ubuntu 9.10) as you did in 7 (and in Ubuntu 9.04). In Mint 7 you would just go to Control Centre, click on Audio (or Sound Preferences) and choose ALSA instead of PulseAudio. Then just remove PulseAudio and you are done. Sadly, loads of stuff are removed from new Gnome/Ubuntu/Mint to make it difficult. Somehow they are trying to force us to use this useless system called PulseAudio. Ok, enough rant. Here’s how to get Mint 8 *and Ubuntu Karmic 9.10) fixed:
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Feb 02
Ubuntu server after minimalistic installation will not have ssh. While installing ssh, you should be aware you are allowing remote logins to your server. This could potentially by a risk if someone manages to brute-force your password. In this case there are a few things we can do to properly protect ourselves. Firstly, use complicated passwords – this I cannot help you with. Think of something. Other things, that we include in this manual are: sshd.conf – disable root logins, sshdfilter – anti-bruteforcing system, iptables – firewall.
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