I was upgrading Kubuntu today, when it told me something went wrong and so I stopped it. Then, when I went back to restart Adept Manager, I got the message:
Another process using packaging system database
I started looking around my running processes and attempting to kill whatever I thought might be causing the problem, but it […]

I wanted to set up a cronjob to backup my photos from a Windows computer to my linux server. To do so I simply set Windows to share the photos directory, then mounted the directory in linux.
The rsync command seemed like the most logical way to sync the mounted directory with my backup directory. However, […]

Three months ago I posted about getting my Netgear WG511 802.11 b/g wireless card to work in Linux. Well, this weekend I figured out a much, much simpler way, and wanted to update my documentation.
In my previous post I discussed that I had tried the Prism54 method without luck and resorted to the ndiswrapper. Then […]

I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out how to get the mod_jk connector working so that I can use tomcat and httpd together. The problem, like most linux operations, is that it’s very poorly documented. Not only that, but the decent documentation you find is either outdated or is very specific to […]

My company now has 2 web servers that I can’t log into via Dreamweaver MX 2004’s SFTP functionality. I’ve already read and re-read Macromedia’s technote on setting PasswordAuthentication to “yes” the sshd_conf file, but that doesn’t seem to be working. I can SFTP just fine via FileZilla to both servers, but when I try with […]