Category Archives: Ubuntu

Ubuntu is my favourite Linux distro at the moment, probably because its founder, Mark Shuttleworth, hails from my home country, namely South Africa. And besides, it really is a user friendly distro anyway…

Ubuntu: Get Yesterday’s Date for a Bash Script

Date work often plays an important part in automated bash scripts, and as such, it is pretty useful to be able to calculate yesterday’s date for your variable work. Continue reading

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Ubuntu: Import a SQL Dump into MySQL

The quickest way to import a properly generated SQL dump containing structure and table definitions plus data into a MySQL database is to simply pipe the file directly to the powerful mysql command function via a terminal window. Continue reading

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How to Remote Desktop into a Windows Server from Ubuntu

How to Remote Desktop into a Windows Server from Ubuntu. There are a number of ways to do this actually, but the one below is pretty simple. And it is all thanks to the ultra useful rdesktop command. Continue reading

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Ubuntu: How to Enable or Disable an Apache2 Site / Virtual Host

Sites or virtual hosts are extremely useful when you are hosting more than one website on a box. I’ve already shown you how to set up virtual hosts under Apache 2, but I thought I would quickly just give a little more insight into what the a2ensite and converse a2dissite function calls do. Continue reading

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How to Install Subversion (SVN) in Ubuntu

To install subversion (or SVN if you like keeping things short) is pretty simple to achieve in Ubuntu (as with just about everything else). Continue reading

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