Google Chrome broke apt-get update
Recently Google stopped supporting the 32-bit version of its Chrome web browser on Linux. This unfortunately had the side-effect of breaking Ubuntu’s apt-get update/upgrade command. Here’s how to fix!
Tag: Ubuntu
The stark contrast between management of Windows and Ubuntu
Some slightly rambling thoughts on the extremely contrasting Ubuntu and Windows methods of keeping your operating system and associated software up to date.
TL;DR Ubuntu offers a far superior experience.
Linux: Find files matching a search and move them retaining directory structure
I recently had an issue with Google Drive which resulted in a large number of duplicate files and folders being created.
Fortunately, using linux command line provided an easy way find all these files and move them to another folder whilst retaining their directory structure.
Batch Optimising Images on a Linux server
Here’s a quick guide to batch optimising your website’s images to decrease page load time for your website visitors. It’s easy and only takes a few minutes.
I’ll be looking at two useful Linux command line tools – jpegoptim and optipng – and showing you how to use them and how to batch process all images in a folder (and sub-folders).
Ubuntu: Avoid shared NTFS disk mount problems
I’ve been sharing a storage disk between Windows and Ubuntu for the past while and randomly encounter the following issue sometimes when I boot up Ubuntu and try to mount my Windows storage drive.
Fixing MySQL collation/charset issues
MySQL character sets and collations can cause problems. Here’s some advice on how to change from one collation type to another.
Ubuntu: Setting group ID for website development folder
Fun and games with sticky bits and loading websites outside of Apache’s default /var/www folder.
Ubuntu: Enabling the PHP Intl Extension
The PHP Intl class is useful for an i18n site, allowing you to output the correct date formats depending on the end users locale. Here’s how to install it.
Ubuntu: Replacement for Win Split Revolution
There’s a great alternative to WinSplit Revolution built right into Ubuntu, you just need to make a simple tweak to enable great window positioning functionality.
