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Nano, an alternative to vi to edit Linux configuration files
My journey into administering Linux from a Windows PC continues. Today’s challenge is to edit configuration files such as .htaccess. There are several options; If you have installed Webmin you can use the nice graphical UI over ssh. You can use WinSCP over ssh to edit locally on your PC using Notepad and then synchronise…
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Fix for Windows 7 “Save as” dialogue is very slow
For several months I have suffered from a very slow “save as” dialogue in many applications. It would often take 20 seconds to render. The opinion on the Internet seems to be that Windows 7 is looking for possibly non-existent shares on the local network. A diagnostic test that this behaviour is that the fault…
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How to enable the WordPress theme editor in a Bitnami distribution
I use ssh to edit all my files but it is possible that access via WordPress itself might be useful sometimes. For example to give ad-hoc access to another developer. From Bitnami docs on how to edit WordPress files, How to edit the WordPress files? For security reasons, WordPress files are not editable from the…
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Accessing Webmin as http://localhost:10000 through an ssh tunnel
If you have an EC2 server it is great to install Webmin on it but it undesirable to expose it through the EC2 firewall. An easier and more secure way to access it is using PuTTY to create a tunnel from a local port to a remote port. When you have done this you can…
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How to give two developers access to the same Linux directory
Linux file administration falls short of what I am used to on Windows. In particular only one user or group have have permissions on a file. In Windows you can create as many groups as you like each with different permissions on a resource and then drop users into them. On Linux you can only…
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I am writing today and found that someone has stolen my book on ethics
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How to connect as root using WINSCP
In my previous post I noted that I had not succeeded in in connecting to a linux machine as root using WINSCP when using the bitnami virtual machine. My development implementation works, so I have progressed to using the cloud hosted bitnami instance. This comes with public key access rather than password access. This actually…
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How to install WordPress Multisite on Virtual Box
I do all my development on a Windows 7 computer but the natural environment for WordPress execution is Linux. I would like to use my tools on Windows and then see the running code on a Linux box. One way of doing this is to use a virtual appliance. This is what we are going to…
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GPL: Living with cancer
The GPL software licence has been described as, “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches” The GPL is deeply antithetical to idea the of software as private property (it is called a FREE Software Licence) and denies the opportunity for developers to create capital by requiring them to…
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Pulling together The Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas
Regular readers will know that my two favourite books on innovation are the The Lean Startup and Business Model Generation. Here is a great article that pulls them together. http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140114154846-95015-do-pivots-matter?trk=eml-ced-b-art-Ch-4&ut=2FQNAYVKvSs641
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 