The TUREWELL T95 Max+ is a decent (and cheap) Android TV Box. The box comes with Android 9, but it’s possible to install KODI over the Android ROM thanks to CoreELEC. I don’t need an Android TV Box because I have a smartTV and a Chromecast, so I’ll replace the Read more…
According to the Apple official documentation, to copy a time machine drive to a new drive (maybe a much larger drive) you have to: connect the old disk and the new one to the same Mac via cable (you cannot copy a Time Machine disk via network) format the new Read more…
Troubleshooting a new Centos8 machine, I encountered a very strange problem: my Apache+PHP setup was working fine, but every CURL script was not working. No errors, only blank pages. Digging into the problem, I fixed it running this command: setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect on The issue was generated by SELinux: the Read more…
Today I’ve discovered Plop Linux, a LiveCD distribution with sshd server enabled at boot. Usually Linux LiveCD don’t have the sshd service on autostart for security reasons. But, for remote disaster recovery, having the sshd already running is very handy. You can download the LiveCD distribution here: https://www.plop.at/en/home.html The root Read more…
The problem: my new gift, the Logitech M720 (yes, I know, I’m a nerd 🙂 ) has the middle click wheel with 3 click (one, the actual middle click and the wheel slightly left and right). So, using the middle click to paste from the clipboard is nearly impossible.
The solution: I have installed “xev” to record the click generated by the wheel slightly left and right and (more…)
The goal: I want to be able to stream to my Chromecast when I’m outside from my home network via VPN. The problem: the Chromecast use the multicast protocol SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) to work and this protocol is not routed (usually) by a VPN connection. The solution: to Read more…
The new OSX version, El Captain is a faster new OS. But, after the update, my trusted MenuMeters application stopped working. 🙁 I have found a solution! Here you can download a new unofficial version of MenuMeters with a patch making the software working again. Great work Yuji! PS: if Read more…
Virtualbox VDI disk grow when you use it. I have many virtual machines and sometimes optimizing VDI free space can recover some precious gigabytes… I have some Virtual Machines that I usually don’t use, but I like to have on disk when something bad happens, so a small VDI is Read more…
Kubuntu 15.04 comes with the new Plasma 5 desktop from KDE. I like Plasma 5, but the tray icon of many non KDE applications is not supported. Someone suggest to install wmsystemtray and use an “ugly box” floating around in your desktop 🙁 I have just found another solution: install Read more…
SWFTools (a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash files, SWF files) was removed from the Ubuntu repository for some security problem with the PDF library used (I don’t remember exactly, anyway it’s not the point…). If you need to use SWFTools, you have to build it from the Read more…