Timothy Bowler

For people wanting to share content between two or more computers, try dropbox. I currently share files between Ubuntu and windows, and on occasions share documents with others. Dropbox easily caters for this, and best of all is free for up to 2GB. Read the rest of this entry »

I know there are loads of methods to getting this combination working.

Download eclipse J2EE edition

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After upgrading the kernel, booting into it left me with a black screen. The first time that I can honestly say ubuntu has shocked me. The problem is the nvidia 177 driver. To get around it, boot up into the previous kernal and install the Nvidia 180 packages. Once its done, reboot into the latest kernel version.

One of the key tools for ssh automation is keychain, which is pretty much available in most flavors of linux. Its usually not installed by default, therefore using your package manager install ‘keychain’

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My first experience of XP was excellent. Both days revolved around open space sessions and several other talks
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Before starting, I would like to tell you the two reasons why I want to share this. Firstly, the many books on scrum that I have read all talk about scrum in large corporate companies where the team might work on a project at a time. As I work in a small creative digital agency where we have many projects on the go, not to mention other influencing work - how does scrum fit in with us? The second reason is how to introduce scrum into a place where the core management do not really understand the scrum process and do not wish to know.

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After one and a half years of using scrum, I have finally been accepted as a Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP). But, this is only the beginning! I think the next step is to go for certified scrum trainer status. During the last year or two I have learned a great deal of scrum implementation which of course I will be sharing fairly soon.

Over the last few weeks the server logs, especially /var/log/messages seems to be filled with consistent ssh dictionary attacks. Of course this cannot continue, so what do you do to prevent it?

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After googling the internet for hours I managed to get the perfect trac + svn setup. Because we use contractors at work, I needed a setup where the security is global but at the same time based on project by project basis. Therefore trac uses a global .htaccess and svn uses the authz file for authentication. At the moment this is working greate. To set up a new trac project is simply a case of creating the project, copying a base projects database and config file and then editing the new project’s config file.

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Ubuntu 8.04 does not have sendmail installed by default. This was annoying when some of the php web apps that I created rely on sendmail to send out email notifications. But before going ahead and installing sendmail, I thought that I would try exim4. Installing on Ubuntu is very straight forward:

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