Ubuntu cheat sheet by FOSSwire

Another good starter cheat sheet for all you Ubuntu newbies out there. If you missed it, the Linux cheat sheet is also available here. I’m new to Ubuntu myself so this comes in real handy for me. Download the PDF from here or here. Again, thanks to FOSSwire for making their cheat sheets available to all.

2009-02-12 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Linux cheat sheet by FOSSwire

Here’s a good Linux cheat sheet to get you started in Linux. Thanks to FOSSwire for coming up with it. Download it from here or here. Update: There is also a Ubuntu cheatsheet available for download.

2009-02-12 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

WordPress 2.7.1 is out

WordPress 2.7.1 is out. The release comes with 68 fixes. For more info on the changes you look at the list for fixed tickets and the full change log. Upgrade’s a breeze with the new auto upgrade function. If you get a timeout issue, try this fix. Increased my timeout to 120 and the upgrade completed successfully. Alternatively, you could still upgrade the manual way by downloading WordPress and upgrading over ftp....

2009-02-11 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Follow the Dalai Lama on Twitter

You can now follow “His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama Of Tibet” on twitter. The twitter account is managed by “OHHDL” ,The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. If you are like me then peace is the only thing you wish. To me, religion, color, race, status in society don’t mean anything. They are just reasons that fuel hatred today and are being leveraged but those in power to stay in power or gain more power....

2009-02-10 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

What does dirname(__FILE__) and basename(dirname(__FILE__)) do?

Was helping a friend fix his php script today. He was not too sure about what “dirname(__FILE__)” did. dirname() is a PHP function which returns the directory name of a file. For example if file abc.txt was in “/tmp/abc.txt” then the dirname() function would return “/tmp” . Example Usage; <?php $file = “/tmp/abc.txt”; $path = dirname($file); // $path will now contain /tmp ?> What does dirname(__FILE__) and basename(dirname(__FILE__)) do then?...

2009-02-06 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan