March 3, 2010

DynDNS Lite!

Filed under: How To, Linux, Ubuntu — James @ 10:47 pm

As my IP address changes so rarely, my Dynamic DNS accounts keep expiring before the IP changes!
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December 16, 2009

Digikam in Ubuntu 9.10

Filed under: How To, Linux, Ubuntu — Tags: , — James @ 10:34 pm

After installing Digikam on Ubuntu, I had no video thumbnails or ability to play video.
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August 29, 2009

Count unique IP address in Apache’s access log

Filed under: Bash, How To, Linux, Ubuntu — James @ 11:14 pm
sed < /var/log/httpd/webtop.access_log -e 's/ .*$//' | sort | uniq -c

May 26, 2009

Ubuntu – Purge configuration files for removed packages

Filed under: How To, Linux, Ubuntu — James @ 11:24 am

This bash command will remove the left over config files from old packages that were removed with “apt-get remove”.

dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs sudo dpkg --purge

See the source article for an explanation of how it works.