Category Archives: Computing

Can’t connect to remote mysql server with php/apache but can through php/cli

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Matt

Today at work we were migrating some sites to a new server infrastructure with the different services (i.e. php, mysql, mail) spread over different servers. One problem we ran into whilst setting this up was that php scripts running through … Continue reading →

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How to get Ubuntu to ping a Windows hostname (and vice-versa)

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Matt

I’m currently running ubuntu server in a virtual machine on my pc, and one of the annoying problems I’ve always had with ubuntu is that it never seems to be able to resolve the hostnames of machines running windows. After a little … Continue reading →

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Virtualbox – 1 differencing child hard disks

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Matt

If you’re getting an error along the lines of “{hard disk} cannot be directly attached to the virtual machine because it has 1 differencing child hard disks” Then the solution is to delete the virtual machine (but not the hard … Continue reading →

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Stretch wallpaper across multiple monitors on Windows

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Matt

When I first got a second monitor I looked around for quite a while to try and find a solution for stretching a wallpaper across dual monitors – Windows was repeating the first half of the wallpaper on both the … Continue reading →

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Safely destroy your computer

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Matt

Now I’m no computer wizz, but I don’t think this should be happening…

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