MultiMonitor Support and Windows Vista, XP

Among my many gripes about Windows Vista (see My Struggles with Windows Vista), is the lack of truly useful window management shortcuts.  Multiple monitor configurations are becoming increasingly common, and the Windows desktop simply hasn’t kept pace.  Sure, if I’m willing to click on numerous UI elements, I can reliably move a maximized window from …

Debian or Ubuntu Linux runlevel configuration tool to start service

Task: Command line tool to manage services / Ubuntu runlevel update-rc.d automatically updates the System V style init script links /etc/rcrunlevel.d/NNname to scripts /etc/init.d/name. These are run by init when changing runlevels and are generally used to start and stop. For example turn on ssh service type the command:

Merging 2 partitions into one

As ZLim noted, both Acronis‘ Disk Director and Symantec‘s (formerly PowerQuest) PartitionMagic will merge multiple partitions. Another program which does this is Paragon Software‘s Partition Manager. Before attempting to merge the two partitions you may wish to backup any valuable data so that in the event of a problem you will still have access to the information stored on the hard …

Ubuntu 8.04 bind9 dns do not Start on Pleks

Using Plesk 8.6 -9 on an Ubuntu 8.04 server ran okay until it became apparent that named wasn’t starting. The problem is the apparmor! It is apparmor : sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor stop Unloading AppArmor profiles : done. laurent@madonie:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/bind9 start * Starting domain name service… bind …done. What should I do then, let things like …