Published by daryl January 23rd, 2008
in Spurs.
Ooooh yeah mamma! The gooners don’t like it up ‘em as evidenced by the raft of lame excuses eminating from Arsenal after their piss-poor performance in the Carling cup semi-final last night.
A pulsating Tottenham performance saw them run riot against Arsenal to book a place in the Carling Cup final.
Spurs got off to the perfect start when Jermaine Jenas angled in a shot to put them 2-1 ahead on aggregate.
Arsenal’s Nicolas Bendtner then headed into his own net before Robbie Keane’s 18-yard shot put Spurs 3-0 up. Continue reading ‘Spurs stuff Arsenal in cup Semi-Final!’
Published by daryl January 21st, 2008
in Linux, Ubuntu and hetzner.de.
I couldn’t get this working in inet.d mode but here’s what I did to get it working in standalone.
1. Install ProFTP
sudo apt-get install proftpd
2. Edit proftpd.conf
sudo vi /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
Make sure that ServerType is set to standalone and that you have your chosen hostname in ServerName.
ServerName myftphost
ServerType standalone
3. Make sure you have the same host name in you /etc/hosts file
sudo vi /etc/hosts
It should read something similar to:
# IPv4
127.0.0.1 localhost
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx myftphost
#
# IPv6
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback myftphost
You should then be able to start the server with:
sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd start
Published by daryl January 20th, 2008
in Linux, Ubuntu, hetzner.de and LAMP.
Assuming you have a fresh installation of apache2.
First we need to tell apache we will be using name based virtual hosts.
Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Set up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon’
Published by daryl January 20th, 2008
in Climate Diary and Sailing.
The level of the Mediterranean Sea is rising rapidly and could increase by up to half a metre in the next 50 years, scientists in Spain have warned. 
A study by the Spanish Oceanographic Institute says levels have been rising since the 1970s with the rate of increase growing in recent years.
It says even a small rise could have serious consequences in coastal areas.
The study noted that the findings were consistent with other investigations into the effects of climate change.
Continue reading ‘Warning on rising Med Sea levels’
Published by daryl January 20th, 2008
in Linux, Ubuntu and LAMP.
Dead easy… assuming no Apache, MySQL or PHP yet installed the following should do the trick.
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql php5
Published by daryl January 12th, 2008
in Linux and Ubuntu.
Having tried Gnash but found some problems I decided to install Adobe Flash but ran into an error with the installer:
Your architecture, \’x86_64\’, is not supported by the Adobe Flash Player installer.
Not too helpful… I browsed around a bit but found that most of the solutions involved copying the plugin files manually however this didn’t work until I happened on additional step. So the solution for me was:
Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Install Flash 9 on Ubuntu 64-bit’
Published by daryl January 3rd, 2008
in Linux and M1330.
So I’ve been running a Dell M1330 under Ubuntu now for a few days and it’s sweet 
No problems found so far and compiz flies along using the Intel X3100 (GM965 chipset). Who needs NVidia huh? Me I guess as I still can’t get Eve Online to play nicely under Ubuntu although it runs sweetly enough in Vista.
Anyway - today found me having to access a test tool that only supports IE, another case of somebody assuming the world revolves around Windows. I’m running Virtualbox with Vista no problems but for some reason the ActiveX control wouldn’t install under VBox so I decided to give IEs4Linux a go.
1. Open a terminal and install wine and cabextract
sudo apt-get install wine cabextract
2. Get the latest version of IEs4Linux
wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads
/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
3. Extract and run
tar -xvzf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux
This will run a cool little app that will download the required packages from Micro$oft. It had a problem installing Flash for me so I unchecked that box but IE installed no probs and left me with an icon on my desktop. The ActiveX control also ran without issues.
4. (Optional) Donate a couple of buck to Sérgio to say thanks!
Published by daryl January 3rd, 2008
in Climate Diary.
As climate change causes the Arctic to melt, Russia, Canada and others are poised to strike for the region’s resources
It began in early August when two Russian mini-submarines planted a rust-proof titanium flag on the seabed 14,000 feet below the North Pole. The act was presented in Russia as a “heroic mission”. “This is like placing a flag on the moon,” a spokesman for Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Institute told Reuters.
Others were rather more scathing. “This isn’t the 15th century,” declared Canadian foreign minister Peter MacKay. “You can’t go around the world and just plant flags and say: ‘We’re claiming this territory.’”
Continue reading ‘Polar resources – The next cold war’
