Giles S.

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Ubuntu – No space left on device – Is it a lie or have I run out of inodes?

Giles S. posted an article on - Jan 9, 2011, 8:08 am
Today my server decided it was going to do some very strange things. WordPress stopped working properly, I got session errors when trying to use PHPMyAdmin, I couldn’t upload files through web forms (the server complained there was no temporary directory). So I logged in to try and work out what w...
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Songs you just can't get out of your head

Giles S. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2010, 5:12 am
I would like to share the following video with you all, I am aware that if you spend any time wandering aimlessly around the internet you will probably have seen it before, but please, bear with me and give it your full attention from beginning to end. I accidentally watched this video last night a...
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How to get Passive FTP working on an Amazon EC2 instance with ProFTPD

Giles S. posted an article on - Sep 16, 2010, 8:09 am
First I would just like to say Hi! I notice that it has been nearly a year since my last post! Lets see if I can average more that one post a year… I have recently consolidated all of my websites and servers into an Amazon EC2 instance. On the 9th September 2010 Amazon released a new range of Mic...
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Pesky Directory Alphabet Filters Made Easy (PHP)

Giles S. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 5:37 am
I have built quite a few directory systems in my years as a web developer and one thing that has always annoyed me is building letter filters to return results depending on the first letter of a title. Normally I would waste a lot of time actually typing out the entire alphabet string: 1 $alphabet...
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The RSS Cloud – Real Time Blogging

Giles S. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 9:40 am
As with any WordPress Blog and pretty much any other blog or news website projectroon.co.uk has an RSS Feed and if you look closely at the source of this RSS feed you may notice a new element What is this? Well currently most Feed Aggregators will poll selected RSS feeds and check if there are any ...
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Advertising is damaging the Internet experience

Giles S. posted an article on - Mar 12, 2009, 9:42 am
In my humble little opinion the original intention of the web was to be a worldwide free medium to share documents and discuss idea. So far this ideal has been somewhat achieved but there is something that is threatening the ideal. I have recently stopped following some blogs and websites, not beca...
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British Government to accelerate use of Open Source

Giles S. posted an article on - Mar 12, 2009, 4:00 am
Quote from BBC.co.uk Tom Watson MP, minister for digital engagement, said open source software would be on a level playing field with proprietary software such as Windows. Open source software will be adopted “when it delivers best value for money”, the government said. It added that public s...
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Why do IT Pros have so much free time?

Giles S. posted an article on - Mar 11, 2009, 12:20 pm
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How to get Ubuntu 8.04 Server running Lighttpd ready for the mighty WordPress

Giles S. posted an article on - Feb 5, 2009, 11:19 am
This site has always been hosted on shared hosting, along with a few other blogs I maintain for friends (On The Wrong Planet and Darth McCarth to name a couple…). Even while I was freelancing I have always used shared hosting as it has always been perfect for my needs However the popularity of thi...
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Epsilon Eridani: A snapshot of our history

Giles S. posted an article on - Nov 17, 2008, 7:16 am
From NASA Spitzer Project NASA scientists have discovered that one of the closest solar systems to ours shows some very striking resemlblances to how are solar system looked when it was a lot younger. The star at the center of the nearby system, called Epsilon Eridani, is a younger, slightly coole...
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BMW embrace Open Source for In Car Entertainment

Giles S. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2008, 5:11 pm
BMW is looking pioneer a move away from proprietary systems used for in-car entertainment systems, allowing developers to build plug and play applications especially for their cars. This could be extremely good news for the open source community and another ‘notch in the bed post’ in the fight a...
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Is your page indexed by Google? Firefox Plugin

Giles S. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2008, 6:31 pm
Many of you here are either involved with the marketing of a web site for another company or operate a web site or blog of your own. For either case, being able to immediately see if a page is cached by Google would be invaluable. That’s exactly what the Google Cache Checker extension for Firefo...
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New Blog: Hatching Out by Andew Hatch

Giles S. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2008, 9:43 am
His strap line is: Seeing things, thinking things, writing things. Andrew Hatch wants you to find out why he says this
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