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Installing Trac and some plugins

Posted: 18th September 2007 by Grant Perry in Apache, Linux, Programming (app), Subversion
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Trac is a popular open source issues management system written in Python. It also features a wiki and subversion browser. There are also countless plugins that have been created for it some of which I’m surprised aren’t included in the base install. I’m installing this on a Ubuntu server, so you may need to find [...]

Fixing linux network interfaces on VMware

Posted: 18th September 2007 by Grant Perry in Linux, Virtualisation
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When downloading a few Virtual Appliances I’ve found they haven’t had network connectivity ‘out of the box’. I’ve only noticed this with Ubuntu servers so far but admittedly I haven’t downloaded a lot of other flavors! This appears to be because the MAC address for eth0 is different to the one of the creators VMware [...]

Upgrade Ubuntu distribution

Posted: 18th September 2007 by Grant Perry in Linux, Operating systems
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Firstly update the your repositories replacing with “breezy” with “dapper” for example. You can work out the release names and additionally even change the URL’s to a closer mirrors by referring to the official repository list. This can be done using: vi /etc/apt/sources.list If you’re not familiar with vi, ESC leaves editing mode and INS [...]

Access is Denied: Fixing windows permissions!

Posted: 11th September 2007 by Grant Perry in Operating systems, Windows
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Having trouble with permissions to a file on Windows XP? So was I even though I was logged as an Administrator.. the same account which created the file.. the permissions hadn’t been modified.. Even worse the files locked were a virtual server I had spent days configuring! The process to fix it was actually quite [...]

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