This is a note to self and any others that may find themselves in a similar situation. Should you happen to one day start your computer, wait for your linux distro to boot up and then see the following message
swap: waiting for UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx
without anything else happening, then don’t panic! At least not yet. Before you [...]

In Alarms in Ubuntu, I published a script that lets you set an alarm from the command line, nice and easy. One thing was lacking though: visual notification of the alarm, so if you happen to be away from the computer when the alarm sounds you’ll still see the dialog box. To achieve that I’ve [...]

I’ve been looking for a while for a good, easy to use, easy to install, no fuss alarm clock. Just something I can set to go off in 10 minutes. Or at 2 o’clock. Or tomorrow. I haven’t found any apps that did that in a nice and easy fashion. I have found several that [...]

Because I’m freelancing for my previous employer, telecommuting in effect, I’ve become a big fan of screen. I didn’t see the benefit of using the program at first, but when you’re logging into a machine with ssh and then have to log into one or two more, after that, you soon become very happy about [...]

As promised in PHP 5.2.x and 5.3.x side by side here’s a script that switches not just the php module for Apache but also the command line version
#!/bin/bash
# This script relies on you having two copies of libphp5 in /usr/lib/apache2/modules/
# – libphp52.so and libphp53.so
# as well as two copies of php in /usr/bin/
# – php52 [...]