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[Linux Tech Solutions Ubuntu]

How to clean up after removing a package via apt-get

Say you install a package via apt-get like lubuntu-desktop.

[Linux Technology Tips Web websites]

Fixed: phpMyAdmin is throwing a #2002 cannot log in to the mysql server phpmyadmin

This one had me going round the houses a bit until I the wrong permissions confirmed something to me.

[Linux Tech Solutions Technology Web websites]

INSTALLING PHPMYADMIN ADVANCED FEATURES ON UBUNTU

Very concise and useful blog posting on the subject

[Linux Tech Solutions Tips]

FIXED: Ubuntu Not Seeing More Than 2TB of a Disk

WARNING! Backup your data before proceeding! For me this process didn’t destroy the data.

[Photography]

Beautiful London Photos For Sale

http://www.photoboxgallery.com/mikedixson/collection?album_id=2660484114

[Photography]

Photo24London

I recently took part in a 24 hour photo shoot event whereby the participants were directed and could wander around London and throughout the day were text messaged little missions.

[Personal Photography]

Recent Photo Work

I’ve been taking my camera out with me a lot more lately and it’s given me a wealth of opportunities for some amazing photos.

[Gaming]

Why the XBox One Being Sold Without The Kinect Is a Bad Thing

Confession of an Xbox Owner I’ll be up front and admit I don’t own an Xbox One….

[Photography Tech Solutions Technology Tips]

Landscapify – Adjusting Portrait Photos for Landscape Frames

I’ve been making a lot more use of my digital photo frame since I moved into my flat but a fair few of the photos I want to make use of are portrait orientation whilst the majority are landscape.

[Modern Living Tips]

Can I Park On A Single Yellow Line?

I learnt this today, & thought it best to share it with all to help you avoid getting a parking ticket or your car towed as was experienced by my friend today:

[Photography Tech Solutions Tips]

Canon SLR Auto Exposure Bracketing AEB

If you want to use AEB feature on a Canon SLR camera, make sure whilst you are trying to set the bracketing that your on body flash is down/off , otherwise no matter what you do you won’t be able to enable bracketing.

[Music Tips]

Lyrical Challenges – Tips To Write Song Lyrics

A friend asked me to write a piece on setting lyrical challenges for myself so I thought I’d post it here as well.

[Security Technology]

Activating an iPhone or iPad Through a Firewall

In order to activate an IOS device when behind a firewall allow the following traffic

[Security Tech Solutions Technology]

Allowing Apple App Store Access Through a Firewall

If you allow port 80 and 443 access out of your network then accessing the Apple App Store from behind your firewall it’s a doddle.

[Security Technology]

Mac OS X’s Hidden FTP Server

Seeing as there is already the capability to run a built in ftp server on OS X why bother downloading and potentially paying for one?

[Personal]

Using a Tag Cloud to Evaluate Your CV

After seeing this LifeHacker article I popped the text from my CV into http://tagcrowd.

[Personal Tech Solutions]

How to fix Mac bluetooth audio quality

Anyone who’s tried to use a decent pair of bluetooth headphones with a Mac knows that it sucks the big one.

[Linux Tips]

Make Sudo Sessions Last Longer In Linux

A handy little article on Lifehacker.com to Make Sudo Sessions Last Longer In Linux

[Tech Solutions]

Fixed – Jira: An internal server error occurred when requesting resource

Jira Gadget Error At work we use Atlassian’s Jira as our support ticket tracking tool.

[Technology Web Windows]

Windows 8 Browsers in Modern UI aka Metro Mode

Since getting my Nexus 10 I used my laptop less and less.

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