When I upgraded to Firefox 4 on my linux machines I was disappointed to see that the classic menu bar remained. I’m not necesarily a fan of the new ribbon interfaces but since I don’t use the menu often and so prefer to use the space for something useful, like the tabs. Reducing the...
So, we finally upgraded our old CRT TV to a newer, Full HD Samsung LCD TV (ue37c5000). Since we have a media-center PC the first thing I did was of course hook it up and test a few full hd clips to enjoy the new TV. Everything was nice and well until I switched...
WOL through Telnet/SSH Note: This is the preferred method to send WOL magic packets remotely. If you have local or remote Telnet/SSH access to your router, you can wake up a machine on the LAN by using the following command: /usr/sbin/wol -i 192.168.1.255 -p PP AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF Note that the full path to “/usr/sbin/wol” is...
What are email certificates used for? Email certificates provide the strongest levels of confidentiality and security for your electronic communications by allowing you to digitally sign and encrypt your mail and attachments. Encryption means that only your intended recipient will be able to read the mail while digitally signing allows them to confirm you...
This is a good one liner to remember: for user in $(cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd); do crontab -u $user -l; done
I was building a script to archive my joomla folders on a linux server. I noticed it takes a lot of time to complete so I’ve run a few tests on one website. Here are the results: View Code BASH1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15...
I still have clients or websites where the most convenient (middle ages based) method of exchanging files is FTP. Since I’m lazy by nature I don’t like firing up a FTP client, I’d prefer to just have it available on request. For a while the KDE Network Places did the trick. But I decided...
What a surpriese. I need those sometimes when mailing things from cron so after a quick search around I found the (intuitive named) package that contains those utilities is sharutils. View Code BASH1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22...
Ever found yourself standing next to a PC that won’t boot and emits all kinds of short or long beeps. Me too. Here’s a list of what these beeps might mean. Please note that because motherboard manufacturers often modify the code bought from these companies the beeps might mean something else. AWARD Beeps Error...
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