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Stress Test – Burn in test – For hard drives

I have recently purchased some hard drives to easily backup some files. Basic data duplication and then taking it off site. It is a short term solution to our backup needs. So we got 3 1TB hard drives and I wanted some way to quickly test them. Update sudo fdisk -l to list all your […]

Posted on July 28, 2009 at 12:00 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Firefox 3.5 Install on Ubuntu

Go get Firefox from the official site tar -xjf firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 Rename firefox directory to firefox-3.5 mv firefox firefox-3.5 Move firefox-3.5 to /usr/lib sudo mv firefox-3.5 /usr/lib Now create a shortcut on your panel. The easiest way to make a new launcher, with the Firefox logo, is to copy the old one (or edit it) and […]

Posted on July 2, 2009 at 11:33 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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JEdit – with Textmate abilities!

Being on Ubuntu I no longer have access to Textmate But there is a solution

Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:45 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Copy – Clone Virtual Box Hard Disk

If you have setup a virtual box disk and want to duplicate it so you can run more than one at a time (which is very useful when creating and testing social websites) you can run [code] VBoxManage clonevdi ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/ubuntu.vdi ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/ubuntu2.vdi [\code] That will create an exact copy but with a different UUID (which needs […]

Posted on June 30, 2009 at 5:12 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Crack Zip Password

There is a tool fcrackzip which will bruteforce zip file encryption. See here at ubuntugeek.com Make sure to use the -u option otherwise you will probably be overloaded with many “possible” passwords and no confirmed passwords, as I found.  I have tried it on a simple text file zipped with password “pass”, found the password […]

Posted on June 4, 2009 at 12:33 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Finally Developing on Ubuntu

It has been a long day coming but it is here!! After convincing my boss not to spend upwards of $4000 on a MacBook Pro and instead hand over $2000 of his credit card (wasn’t a hard sell), I have now built my second PC.

Posted on May 25, 2009 at 11:05 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Unix tar gzip a folder then unzip it (ssh/telnet/terminal)!

tar -cvzf <filename>.tar.gz <folder-name> CREATE A GZIP ARCHIVE tar -xvzf <filename>.tar.gz (which will create a folder named <folder-name> in the current directory) EXTRACT A GZIP ARCHIVE If you need to then send that via scp (secure copy) scp <filename>.tar.gz <username>@<domain>:/<path_to_file>/<filename>.tar.gz SEND A FILE TO REMOTE SERVER or scp images.tar.gz [email protected]:/home/john/images.tar.gz

Posted on April 3, 2009 at 1:18 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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What do you fly?

OS: Ubuntu 7.10 64bit VPS on Virtuozzo with Open host Two CPU’s 384mb Ram (no swap) OS: Ubuntu 9.04 on Xen One CPU, 400mb Ram (with some swap) Now moved to Rimuhosting.com Apache2 PHP Rails Enterprise Edition Phusion Passenger™ MySql Postgresql

Posted on February 22, 2009 at 11:31 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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