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Open remote application window over ssh – X11

You left the office but forgot to leave an application running.  An application that requires it’s GUI, you try to open it via ssh but “Error: Can’t open display” prevents you.
Simple fix here, you will kick yourself.
DISPLAY=:0 <command>
for me this translated into
DISPLAY=:0 transmission
What this does is instruct the application to open in display 0, which [...]

Posted on December 29, 2009 at 8:18 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · One Comment
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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Fonts are wrong size

I have had a strange issue where my fresh install of Karmic Koala Ubuntu 9.10 render the fonts wrong. My friend had also just done a fresh install and had no issues. I tried messing with my DPI setting in the display options but to no luck.
I just tried installing the Microsoft Fonts [...]

Posted on November 19, 2009 at 6:24 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Failed to parse existing X config file ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’

If you are trying to save your xorg.conf file after changing settings in the nvidia-settings app you may need to first replace it with
sudo nvidia-xconfig
This will back it up and then recreate it.  Seems a fresh install of Karmic Koala 9.10 doesn’t create a valid xorg.conf or it can’t parse it.  Whatever the case, that’s [...]

Posted on October 31, 2009 at 1:38 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 15 Comments
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Logstalgia from Remote server

Remote graphical apache log monitoring via Logstalgia is a simple little graphical way to watch traffic on your website.
Install via
sudo apt-get install logstalgia
Run via
ssh machine_username@hostname “tail -f /var/logs/apache/access_log” | logstalgia -

Posted on September 23, 2009 at 12:55 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Webcam – Logitech for the win – S 5500

Wanting a webcam for my machine to use on skype (Yes, skpye does work on Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit) I wasn’t sure which to buy.  So I didn’t get any, and just got a mic.
Well later one of the office junkys said he had a spare and gave it to me.  A Logitech S 5500, [...]

Posted on August 10, 2009 at 3:31 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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