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Spotify — the future of music
Spotify, now in public beta, takes a whole new approach to music. All music resides on the Spotify servers, and as a user, you stream the music using the internet. Where it gets interesting is that...
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Safe document writing using Dropbox
Lots of people who write articles or create content in any form, often find themselves generating lots of files. A writer will for instance probably have lots of article drafts laying around. Everyone...
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Getting push replies for Twitter for free
I wanted to get notified on Twitter replies and mentions instantly, both on my Mac and on my iPhone. Since Google released Push for the iPhone a couple of weeks ago, an email based solution would be...
View ArticleUbuntu 10.04 LTS released
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was just released with amazing new features and fixes including: New Ubuntu Software Center New splash screen using plymouth UbuntuOne Music Store (with Rhythmbox integration) New...
View ArticleUnity, and Ubuntu Light
Unity, and Ubuntu Light is a post from Mark Shuttleworth, describing the future of Ubuntu as a netbook and light web browsing operating system. A few months ago we took on the challenge of building a...
View ArticleShell script to show a file and optionally delete it
I needed to open a number of files and depending on the content, delete them. Here is a quick bash script to cat the file and ask a question to delete the file afterwards. #!/bin/bash VIEWER="cat" if [...
View ArticleHow to remove files with special characters in Linux
I recently found myself having to remove a file with special characters. Using rm only gave me “rm: unrecognized option”, which forced me to take off the gloves. To remove a file with dashes, slashes...
View ArticleFixing VirtualBox after the unRAID 5.0.5 upgrade
I have been experiencing some troubles with the TimeMachine backups from my Macs to my unRAID server since the release of unRAID 5.0. As it happens, 5.0.5 was released a couple of weeks ago which...
View ArticleRecovering unRAID
If you have a server running unRAID you will know that it’s usually quite stable and simple to use. When things go wrong however, is where you will need some Linux commands at hand to help you get back...
View ArticleUsing Fail2ban with Nginx and UFW
I was recently hit with a denial of service attack on this very blog, and it hold up surprisingly well. The only reason I found out about it was when, after the attack was well under way, the WordPress...
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