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Australian Network for Art and Technology [ANAT] e: [email protected] | ph: +61 8 8231 9037 www.anat.org.au | www.filter.org.au | www.synapse.net.au Twitter: __ANAT | Facebook: http://bit.ly/bF9fXl The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments; the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the South Australian Government through Arts SA.

Archiving script refactorisation

Posted on December 19, 2012 by admin

Due to the main previous archiving script falling over itself I have started to write a new version with the help of #bash on freenode. Conceptual things I have changed: Using a whitelist of UUIDs instead of mountpoints  to determine … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu vs Debian (sever side)

Posted on October 19, 2011 by admin

The situation For a while now I have been considering changing from using Ubuntu server, whilst Ubuntu server does provide great support with updates. Distribution upgrades are known to fail with Ubuntu and with a cycle of 2 distribution releases per … Continue reading →

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Embedding Videos in WordPress

Posted on April 13, 2011 by admin

Problem Trying to add the embed code for something like YouTube or Vimeo gets stripped out by WordPress’s editor. On top of that, the standard embed option of leaving the URL to the website on a line of it’s own … Continue reading →

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Bash Prompt

Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin

For those that are regular Terminal, SSH, and/or Putty users, there will come a time when you want to change the Bash prompt. Here is the new PS1 (Shell Prompt) which you can add into ~/.bashrc if [ "$color_prompt" = … Continue reading →

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ANAT Apache folders convention

Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

I’ll start by getting right to the point. This is how I structure the folders for Apache. Assumptions : Using Ubuntu (or a similar distro) Single main user, but can have multiple (virtual) FTP users You have full root access … Continue reading →

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MySQL Backup Script with User Permisions

Posted on January 24, 2011 by admin

This is a usefull script that performs a standard MySQL database dump but includes the functionality to backup users and user permisions in addition to the datain the database. #!/bin/bash # Copyright (c) 2005 nixCraft project # This script is … Continue reading →

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Download Buttons

Posted on December 6, 2010 by admin

Based on http://www.photoshopstar.com/web-graphics/professional-glossy-download-button/ I’ve attempted to create some download buttons. I didn’t have the Myriad Pro font, and I know the look isn’t as swish as it could be, but it’s an attempt. The Buttons Download Demo Preview Source Code

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WordPress Hello Dolly -> Rick Roll

Posted on December 1, 2010 by admin

For a little bit of fun a number of months ago I edited the default hello dolly wordpress plugin and changed it to a rick roll. Personally, I’m not of the Hello Dolly generation and it didn’t interest me at … Continue reading →

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When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

Posted on November 17, 2010 by admin

If your a fellow geek who wants an engaging story then you’ll probably enjoy this as much as we did. http://baens-universe.com/articles/when_sysadmins_ruled_the_earth

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Rootless Root – The Unix Koans of Master Foo

Posted on October 14, 2010 by admin

I felt I had to share this amusing take on the art of Unix/Linux by Eric Steven Raymond http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/

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