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  • Interactive Docker containers

    4 minute read #intro-to-docker, #tutorial

    Interactive shell

    In this post we are going to create a container we can interact with. We can then have a poke around inside the container and see what it is and how it works.

  • Running a Docker container

    3 minute read #intro-to-docker, #tutorial

    Installing Docker

    Installing Docker on your machine is required but beyond the scope of this series. Getting Docker up and running is an ever evolving and improving process and anything put here will go stale reasonably quickly. As Docker uses linux kernel features you will need a running linux operating system. Therefore installing Docker on linux is easy, however installing it on Windows and Mac involve running a lightweight linux virtual machine.

  • What is Docker?

    5 minute read #intro-to-docker, #tutorial

    Welcome to the first post in ‘Intro to Docker’, a series I’m writing to get beginners started with Docker. Each post in this series will be no more than a 5 minute read and will cover exactly one topic surrounding Docker.

  • Amazon S3: s3cmd put ([Errno 32] Broken pipe)

    2 minute read #aws, #error, #linux, #s3, #terminal

    Recently I decided to use Amazon’s S3 as another location to store some of my server backups. However I found when testing that I was unable to upload my backup tarballs to S3. I ended up with the following errors.

  • Why is there no space in the MySQL password parameter?

    2 minute read #cli, #command-line, #database, #mysql, #terminal

    After troubleshooting a MySQL issue with a colleague we began discussing a “feature” of the MySQL command line which insists that you don’t put a space in the password parameter when using the short parameter. We both felt that it was rather inconsistent to allow the usage of -h hostname or -u username but insist on -ppassword instead of -p password. You can of course use the full parameter --password=password but as most people use the shorthand commands it just seems slightly unintuitive.

  • Ubuntu setup 2010

    1 minute read #linux, #ubuntu

    I am now happy with my Ubuntu installation. After a small hiccup earlier where it decided not to do an update properly, disable my mouse and keyboard and then ask for a password for them to be re-enabled. Solved with a trusty USB mouse and onscreen keyboard. I have managed to find a PHP/HTML/JS editor to my liking. I have looked through a few more since my post last night and have settled on Komodo. It highlights my code properly, auto completes functions and even highlights closing tags when you select the opening one which is going to make my life with tables and divs a hell of a lot easier. Definitly a viable replacement for Dreamweaver as the only thing I missed was the colour scheme which has easily been remedied in the settings.

  • Back to Ubuntu

    3 minute read #linux, #ubuntu

    For as long as I’ve been interested in computers I’ve been interested in linux. I was introduced to it by a friend at school when I was 13, we installed mandrake in vmware. We only admired it for a few minutes and then deleted it. He later introduced me to ubuntu and he began using it as his only operating system and still does to this day. I personally couldn’t move from Windows mainly due to gaming but also because I can’t stand to lose photoshop, dreamweaver etc. I also have a problem with wine, vmware and virtualbox, why emulate windows when you can just run it.

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