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What, who, where am I?!?
Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
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Rugged Rock Studio
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- Funakoshi Karate International South Africa
- Rugged Rock Studio: The Portfolio of Craig Lotter
- The Codeunit of Craig
- The House of C
- The Rugged Rock of Craig
Category Archives: Tutorials
Ubuntu and the Canon LiDE 100 Scanner Fix
Earlier this year I treated myself and purchased a Canon LiDE 100 USB Scanner (which ashamedly hasn’t seen all that much use for the rest of the year). As much as I like the little low cost fighter, one of my biggest gripes was that Canon hadn’t released any Linux drivers for the device, and because the code is proprietary, it wasn’t likely to get Linux support any time soon.
Well thankfully all of that has now changed and the wonderful SANE project has gone ahead and added driver support for the Canon LiDE 100… though getting it to work requires a little bit of effort on your part!
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Ubuntu: How to Reload Apache Configuration without Restarting the Service
Sometimes you make subtle changes to the configuration files of Apache, affecting certain aspects of the server’s performance but not others. To get these changes to the configuration files live, the standard route is to save your changes and restart the Apache service. Continue reading
Ubuntu Server: Steps to Create a New SVN Repository and Add Users for it
To add SVN repositories and give existing user accounts access to it is not entirely a one step process in Ubuntu. So this is how you do it…
First, browse to the folder in which you want to generate your SVN repository and create the respository folder:
Ubuntu: How to Renew Apache’s default SSL Certificate
A lot of the time, in order to quickly enable SSL for Apache in Ubuntu, servers make use of a self-signed certificates. These are pretty useful, though they do have a tendency to expire on you when you least expect it.
To renew this ‘snake oil’ certificate as Apache dubs it is actually quite simple.
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Ubuntu Server: Maximum Compression of a file Using 7za
Just a quick one-liner to remind me how to ultra compress a file using 7za instead of the bog standard gzip which I always seem to automatically turn to because its the only one I can remember out of my head!
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Posted in Technology & Code, Tutorials Tagged 7 zip, 7za, archive, compression, maximum compression, terminal, zip View Comments
