Usually, if one sets the value of a checkbox to say 1, most browsers will post a key value pair with the value equal to 1 when the box is checked, but leave the key-value pair out when the box… Read More
/boot full on Ubuntu
When updating Ubuntu, old kernel versions are kept in /boot so that if you find that the latest one doesn’t work out, you can just boot into an older one. Unfortunately this also means that eventually your /boot partition will… Read More
Mounting Virtualbox VDI in linux
Needed to mount a VDI. Using manually installed Vbox from Oracle site, which has nasty conflict with packages for Mint, so couldn’t easily get fuse installed. Solved by using qemu as per these instructions.
Telling virtual box processes apart
My load average has skyrocketed and top shows that it’s one of the headless virtualbox virtual machines. But which one is it? Doh! The culprit has the same RAM allocation as one of the others, that narrows it down, but… Read More
Xdebug for php debugging on LAMP with Netbeans
I use netbeans as my php IDE and having a debugger is incredibly helpful when building large webapps.When Xdebug works, it’s an incredibly useful tool as one can step through code, keeping an eye on variables at any point. It… Read More