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Raspberry Pi – a must have toy!
This board is the coolest thing I’ve seen in computing for years. The price (25$ for the basic one and 35$ for the advanced one) it will be awesome. I can’t wait! 🙂 FAQs | Raspberry Pi.
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SAMBA sharing to Mac
When you configure a SAMBA server on Linux and you want to mount the resource from a Mac, remember to set the security mode to “user“, otherwise you can receive messages like this: The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “SHARENAME” can’t be found From the smb.conf: Read more…
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XBMC: make the shutdown working on Linux
I’m a huge fan of XBMC and I’m using it on my media-center. Usually I install on the hard drive the XBMC Live CD, a minimal Ubuntu based setup, with XBMC on top. Sometimes, I don’t have figured out why, the shutdown command is not working. I have faced the Read more…
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Keep the ssh client connection alive
The problem: your favorite internet connection has one or more NAT between you and your server, so your SSH connection freeze after some idle time…
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cron.daily, cron.hourly, cron.monthly and cron.weekly not working
Well, I have just made a little discovery: under recent distros (I’m using Ubuntu 9.10) the cron stuff is changed.
If you label your script with a name containing a dot, the cron job is not executed. (!!!)
Until now, I used to label my scripts like script.sh but now this is evil 🙂
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iPhone, ringtone how-to
If you want some custom made ringtones, chose your MP3, convert to M4A, rename the file to M4R then drag it in iTunes and sync. That’s it. Under linux I’m using for the conversion stuff soundKonverter, but you can choose your preferred software… 🙂
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Xdebug and XAMPP
If you have to use Xdebug but you don’t want to “going crazy” with manual building from sources or with pecl, you can download a binary version of Xdebug from the ActiveState website (get the PHP Remote Debugging archive for your OS and use the binary version according your PHP Read more…
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NTFS 3G slow with VMware
If you have your vm hosted on a NTFS partition and the mount.ntfs-3g is eating all your CPU power, try to update the NTFS 3G to the last version and add to your .vmx file this config line: mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE
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Strange behaviour with keyboard in Vmware Server 2.0 & Linux?
If you are experiencing some strange behaviour with the keyboard (the four arrow keys, Home, End, PageUP, PageDOWN, etc… are not working correctly) in Vmware Server 2.0 and your host is Linux, you can try to fix this problem with this terminal code: [source: js] echo ‘xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true’ >> Read more…
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How to install OpenLaszlo 4.1.1 on Linux
I’m playing with OpenLaszlo from a while (an open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications), but I have found some problems installing it on my developing system (currently I’m using Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex).
I have found the solution and due to lack of documentation about it I have decided to write a little step-by-step guide here on this blog…