Introduction to the Unix / Linux command notebook I first used Unix over 20 years ago when I was at college. After that I got my first job and the company were then taking out their old Unix based system and were replacing it with a big IBM S/36 system which was...
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MacOS How to see which process is listening on a port.
How to fix TCPIP Port in use errors by tracking down what is using the port and killing the process on MacOS and Linux.
How to upgrade Ubuntu 10.4 / 10.10 Maverick to the latest version of Ubuntu Linux?
Ubuntu Linux 10.4 / 10.10 Maverick are no-longer supported and when you try to upgrade you get 404 Not found messages about various package repositories. This blog explains how to fix your Linux repository list in Maverick so that you can successfully upgrade it to the latest release of Ubuntu Linux.
Image Resize and thumbnails not working in WordPress.
I had a strange problem on a Wordpress blog site today that I haven't seen before. The image resize and thumbnail generation wasn't working. Normally when you upload an image to Wordpress it creates 3 versions of the image at different sizes but this wasn't...
Improve your website by getting to know your log files.
What are Apache web server log files? When someone visits your website they are making requests on your web server. The details of these requests are recorded in your web server log files. Most websites in the World run on Apache web servers and that's what I'm going...