Escape ampersand in PHPWord docx documents
If you are trying to output documents to DOCX using PHPWord and you are getting broken files due to there being ampersands in your source, then the fix is simple. It’s talked about in...
Steve Daniels
Nexus 4 solid red light dead
Just a quick post to explain how my Nexus 4 died at the weekend, and was revived just now! My Nexus 4 was low on charge at the weekend, about 4 percent, so I...
Upgrading from Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy to 14.04 Trusty – unresolvable problem
I’ve just been trying to upgrade my server/workstation to the latest 14.04 alpha from Ubuntu but became slightly stuck with the standard instructions of: update-manager –d Or: sudo do-release-upgrade -d I got: An unresolvable...
rpcinfo -t NFSSERVER nfs -> RPC: Port mapper failure – Authentication error
I’m been adding some resiliency to the NFS set up at work recently. Â Mainly to allow the clients to gracefully handle the server being MIA at boot, and to allow them to lose and...
BCM57781 Broadcom Dual Nic on Ubuntu 10.04
I’m passing through this Nic from an Ubuntu 12.04 Dom0 to an Ubuntu 10.04 guest (LinuxMCE) and need to get the nic working. You’ve got to download the drivers from http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netlink_k57.php and compile them yourself. The...
Xen, Windows and VNC
Connecting to a Xen DomU directly from Windows using a VNC client can sometimes be a pain. Most Windows VNC clients dislike the protocol that Xen uses for VNC and continually fail, or appear...
PHP 5.2.x with APC on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise (via Hardy)
I short while ago over at my work blog I documented trying to get PHP 5.2.x with APC on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid (via Hardy). In the end this didn’t exactly go to plan because...
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS percona-toolkit depends on…
So I was trying to install Percona Toolkit on a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 LTS install that I’d just installed Percona Server 5.5 onto. wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.deb sudo dpkg -i percona-toolkit.deb Selecting previously deselected package...
LinuxMCE 10.04 Single Network Card
I did a DVD install over LinuxMCE using a mid July snapshot and for some reason it didn’t detect that I only had one network interface (nic) on my DFI Lan Party motherboard. I’ll...
Rename Google Apps Standard Edition account
So I recently got an Android phone, the Galaxy S. I didn’t notice when I picked it up from the Ormskirk O2 store, but it’s bigger than my old iPhone 3GS (That got a...
First blog post, finally!
Ok, I’ve finally set up a blog! Agh. I’ve been tweeting for quite some time, my drive for this is.. it’s time to get back on to starting things and finishing them! I’m doing...
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