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Make sensors report temperature on slacware64-current with an Intel I7 2600k

January 27, 2012

For some reasons the required modules don’t get loaded. Add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules right above the line reading ### Mouse support: View Code BASH1 2 3 ### by SV for i2600k temperature /sbin/modprobe coretemp /sbin/modprobe pkgtemp Now sensors report the temperatures.

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Cum sa explici occidentalilor taierea porcului de Craciun

January 27, 2012

A tot circulat pe mail si mi s-a parut foarte buna Credit autorulu necunoscut! Relatarea unui roman care traieste in Occident De criză, de dor și de fițe mi-a venit ideea să tai porc de Crăciun, cum se făcea pe timpuri la mine la...

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Recursively remove digikam’s xmp embeded tags

January 25, 2012

Because digikam made a mess of the tags I started to add to my pictures I decided to start from scratch. Note that I tried to get the max and I had set to write tags both to .xmp sidecar files and inside the...

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Unpacking a .deb file (including scripts)

January 23, 2012

While attempting to install a deb package on a slackware system I wanted to check the install script that the package runs. I tried the deb2tgz utility but unfortunately...

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Log dropped packets using CentOS Firewall

January 23, 2012

Please take care modifying your firewall. If you don’t understand what’s being done here you may lock yourself out of your machine. You’ve been warned ! In order to...

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Fixing a self pressing button on an Asus VW202SR monitor

January 17, 2012
Broken button Asus Monitor showing Brightness menu

Well, today instead of working I had the pleasure of fixing the monitor The monitor is an older Asus VW202 SR that my wife uses connected to the laptop....

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Enabling the MySQL slow query log

January 12, 2012
Logo-mysql

If you have a slow web app or website it might be because of unoptimized sql queries. You want to track and fix those and the mysql slow query...

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Limit number of related articles returned in Joomla 1.7

January 11, 2012

Joomla 1.7 has a nice module mod_related_items (Articles Related) that shows articles related to the current one the visitor is browsing. It has one issue though, you can’t set...

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cbnet Ping Optimizer is killing a site

January 11, 2012

Some wise soul decided many moons ago that installing the aforementioned plugin on a site I host. The wise soul is long gone (admining websites for ngo’s as a...

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