Tag Archives: Linux

File Synchronisation With Unison

Unison is an application which allows files to be synchronised between local or remote directories. I find it incredibly useful for keeping my documents etc synchronised between my various computers. I use it for many things, including my ~70GB music collection so I can verify that it can handle large(ish) amounts of data.
Unison is cross [...]

Desktop Theming & Panels

Recently I’ve spent some time playing around with the theme and panels I use. I haven’t changed much from what I’ve been using for a while, but there were a couple of subtle changes.
Here’s what I’ve ended up with, on my laptop at least (from the default Ubuntu 9.04 settings):

Industrial Tango theme (apt: industrialtango-theme).
Compiz desktop [...]

Lots Of Upgrades!

After putting off upgrades on omicron for ages (I was busy), this week I finally found the time. So, I’m now running:

Apache 2.2.8
Tomcat 6.0.16
MySQL 5.0.54
Subversion 1.4.6

Woo yeah for them all running smoothly! I was especially happy that converting my Tomcat 5.5 configuration to 6.0 was easy.
As a bonus upgrade, I’ve switched the theme on my [...]

VM Upgrades

So, yesterday evening bytemark finally got around to upgrading the host machine for my VM server. The upgrade itself went smoothly, so I now have 300MB of memory and 20GB of disc space (at no extra cost). Woo for me
I did however have some problems getting the server to come back online again [...]