I’ve recently started using some select Ubuntu ppa repos with debian, and once you know how it is extremely easy to set it all up and get working. So, heres how to do it, using “Homebank” as an example.

Currently in the debian repos, Homebank is showing as stable ...

For a long time I’ve been using various formats of apt-cache search and stuff, and its such a crushing bore having to type in commands one after another, so I’ve written a script to do it all for me, whilst I’ve been listening to “Dad’s Army ...

This is the first post on a new hosts server, as I’ve moved this site from 1and1 to “cassidywebservices.co.uk” http://cassidywebservices.co.uk/. The reason for the move was that with every post that I made to this blog I was hitting memory problems, and there was ...

I’ve just discovered GreatLittleRadioPlayer which has quite probably got the longest programme name I’ve ever seen! But its a streaming radio player for ubuntu and fedora, but I’ve got the 32-bit version working on Debian testing, with only one easily fulfillable dependency too. It can be found ...

Much has been written about free software, yet many people still think: What good is it for regular users? They buy or copy software, not caring if doing so is legal, and they have no need for source code they wouldn’t understand anyway. I heard that a couple times ...

Has my backup succeeded?

At the end of ‘obnamhome.txt’ there is a block of text which is very interesting to see how your backup has gone -

2013-09-04 16:31:48 INFO Backup performance statistics:
2013-09-04 16:31:48 INFO \* files found: 163789
2013-09-04 16:31:48 INFO \* files backed ...

Introduction

Anybody who has written software for public use will probably have received at least one bad bug report. Reports that say nothing (“It doesn’t work!”); reports that make no sense; reports that don’t give enough information; reports that give wrong information. Reports of problems that turn out ...

Vnstat has long been a favourite of mine, and I’ve used it for many years, but I’ve just learnt that when you set it up with vnstat -u -i eth0 run as root, that you must then reboot for it to have any effect and start recording.