top Tips

A few tips for getting the best out of the very customisable top process viewer.

Resizing LVM Logical Volumes

This post explains how to grow and shrink LVM Logical Volumes and the file system contained in them.

Installing Apache on Fedora 18

There are some differences in the latest Fedora so here’s a guide to installing Apache on Fedora 18.

Setting up Multiple DB server instances

Guide to setting up multiple database instances using MariaDB and Fedora 18.

Creating a Minimal Fedora 18 VM

Guide to setting up a minimal Fedora 18 server in a Virtual Machine.

Installing ‘Classic’ Gnome on Ubuntu

Guide to setting up the traditional Gnome user interface in Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin).

Vim: Using Buffers

Manage buffers using the minibufexplorer plugin and setting Ctrl-Tab for quick buffer navigation.

Learning Vim

Some advice on learning Vim (the greatest text editor).

Why Use Vim?

Why go to the effort of learning and using Vim?