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Saturday, 25 July 2015

Dropping unnamed foreign key constraints in MySQL

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If you're simply amending a live database, this isn't a problem. However, when you need statically define operations with database c...

Stuck control keys under Ubuntu

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Encountering a "stuck key" condition - a key that's permanently active - can be highly frustrating. A control key permanently ...
Friday, 31 January 2014

Migrating from Rhythmbox to Clementine

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Some months back, an update rendered my main Rhythmbox installation largely unusable. Changing playlists would lock the application for ab...
Sunday, 27 October 2013

Configuring Logcheck on Ubuntu

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System logs provide a wealth of important detail about activity on our systems; from incorrect configurations, to failing hardware, to rem...
Sunday, 16 June 2013

Sane Window Placement in Unity

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I've never been terribly enamoured with Unity's window placement algorithm. Granted, it works reasonably well for single monitor c...
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