Monthly Archives: May 2010
How to improve resolution in KVM
Once again I found myself trying to “fix” something that has been bothering me for some time – the Resolution in KVM guests is sometimes poor, as low as 800×600. As it turns out, one can increase the resolution of … Continue reading
How to use UFW in OpenVZ templates
I was looking at iptables / UFW in openvz templates and was able to work through some of the problems with UFW. In this blog I will outline how to get ufw working. The issues with UFW and OpenVZ guests … Continue reading
Upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 OpenVZ Templates
This post is for those wanting to upgrade existing Ubuntu 9.10 openvz templates to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) which is a LTS release (supported server side for 5 years). Caution: Back up your data before you upgrade. This upgrade works … Continue reading
“Fix” wordpress rendering of “code”
When posting code , wordpress often changes text into gibbersih making code boxes hard to read and copy-paste of code difficult or impossible. Examples two – show up as — (one). To fix this, use html code. Single quote ‘ … Continue reading
apt-get how to fix very broken packages
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04.3 to Ubuntu 10.04 and things went well, except a few broken packages. Apt-get / synaptic was very broken due to the flashplugin-nonfree. sudo apt-get install -f [clip] dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--remove): Package is … Continue reading