Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

Mount a Webdav folder in Ubuntu Linux

Webdav is a very handy protocol for writing files back and forth across the internet.
I’ve never really had much call for it – but I’m all for it lately as I’m trying out Alfresco and would really love to see a better way to upload files than the basic web-bsaed uploader that is provided.
As Firefox [...]

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No More Lost Deleted Files in Ubuntu

I had a shocking error of judgement this morning when I accidentally deleted some of my son’s photos from his toy digital camera. They were sitting on my desktop, and I was on a cleanup… These were a casualty of my cleanup-fest and obsession with the shift key.
Thinking on a Windows vein – I thought [...]

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Move a print job from one queue to another in Linux

Today, I was looking at my printer queue and realised that Claire had tried to print something from the internet to my work printer. This meant that unless I went to the office – it would not print. A problem.
Because Claire had decided to use my laptop rather than one of the desktops, I was [...]

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How to download BBC iPlayer programmes

Fed up with the BBC iPlayer? Well this article explains how to download BBC videos straight to your computer to watch in your favourite video player.

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SCP and filename spaces

Copying files with scp is difficult enough without spaces. So when a filename contains a space, scp seems to start behaving by its own rules.

Here’s a command that will copy unusual filenames without any problems in scp.

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Reset your MediaWiki Sysop Password

When you’re stuck without sysop access to MediaWiki because you cannot remember the sysop details then there’s a handy maintenance script that’s available (if you’ve used the package manager) to reset the sysop username and password.
On Ubuntu server you can run the following command:
php /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/changePassword.php –user=sysop –password=password
The script will immediately reset your sysop username and [...]

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