Sometimes it might be necessary to remove Sentinel’s Ranger software from a computer with the minimum of fuss. Even though there is a removal user account. For instance, this may not work.
So here’s a handy script to automitcally disable Ranger on a workstation. This returns some Windows settings back to normal and backs up the [...]

I’ve just been tweaking with SSH. One of the common things that I have to do is reconfigure my SSH tunnels while I’m working remotely to gain access to desktops and the like.
In this situation, the cumbersome but easiest way always seemed to be to disconnect and change the command line. However, having used Putty [...]

Anyone using Facebook will know that it’s quite annoying losing a good chunk of screen real estate to the adverts on the right hand side.
Of course, many others think so and there is a nice extension that will block various adverts around the internet including Facebook’s own.
Now, I’m not going to get into the morality [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]