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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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