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Updating firmware on Zoom 4501 and 4506 mobile routers from Linux

Trying to update the firmware on Zoom 4506 and 4501 mouter routers fails if you run it from Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu Linux. It appears to load quickly, then stops with a 500 Server Error error message...

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Move phpmyadmin to a different address

By default, phpmyadmin (the essential MySQL admin program for webservers) is installed with an address of /phpmyadmin/ on the default domain on your website. This means that automated scripts can find...

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Getting locale failed message when doing apt-get upgrade

If you're getting "setting locale failed" messages when you're doing an upgrade on a newly-installed server, the cause is as it says - there isn't a locale to set....

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Set up an Ubuntu 9.04 server firewall with UFW

Setting up a basic, minimalist firewall on your server is easy with ufw (the "uncomplicated firewall"). The example here is for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, but apart from the install should be...

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Welcome to Linux Vector

Welcome to Linux Vector - a little blog about Linux (mainly Ubuntu), webservers and website admin....

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