Chris Tate-Davies

You have some data which many users edit often, and you want to return a field with some sort of…

In order to compact a virtualbox VDI file and recover some of the lost space (especially useful when using a…

I’ve used openvpn on Mac (using Tunnelblick) for a few years for a home->work VPN connection with no issues, and…

We’ve been using a bit of a google doc recently for logging stuff, and sometimes cells get missed. I wanted…

I often need to check my WAN IP address – so this little command will do it for you in…

If you made a typo or a similar mistake when naming your new branch, and you want to rename it,…

So you get that annoying “The volume can’t be ejected because it’s currently in use.” message trying to unmount your…

So, I use svnX on MacOSX and I find DiffMerge a much nicer application than the default FileMerge, but I…

So, trying to use a Linux Mint laptop and Plex for a lower power consumption server seemed a good idea,…

So, quick and simple MySQL backup in a CRON. #!/bin/bash _hour=`date '+%H'`; _user="root"; _pass="thepassword"; _dest="/srv/backups/daily/"; mysqldump -u $_user -p$_pass --all-databases…