by Peter Connolly | Feb 19, 2013 | Ubuntu
There are lots of tutorials on the internet defining what the best Ubuntu command prompt is, and I’ve worked through a lot of them. They all seem to have a similar format: username, then the folder you’re in (some also add the time, the history number of...
by Peter Connolly | Oct 13, 2011 | clients, technology
First of all, you probably don’t need to. Google provides an incredibly massive amount of space; over 7Gb at the last count. That’s a lot of emails! However, be that as it may, some people still prefer to have email on their computer only, and not on...
by Peter Connolly | Jun 27, 2011 | Ruby on Rails
It’s a bit of a common question (in the Ruby on Rails world, at least!). I came across this issue this morning when I copied an existing ThinkingSphinx yml file from a working system. Symptoms: Running rake ts:rebuild would rebuild the database, but would not...
by Peter Connolly | Jun 14, 2011 | featured, MySQL
One of a short series of posts listing useful MySQL commands that I use frequently when managing servers and databases. These come in useful when I don’t have access to Navicat, my favored tool for working with client databases. The assumption I make is that you...
by Peter Connolly | May 11, 2011 | featured, technology
Today our server was the target of a dictionary attack from a bot in Vietnam. Our csf/lfd install was up to the job, and swatted every attempt to login (see http://www.kpdirection.com/technology/using-csf-and-lfd/ for details of how we do that). The downside was that...
