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 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…
I’m on KDE 4.13.0 and sbackup is not showing the notification icon. It’s an old problem, the program is looking for some process like “x-session-manager”, “gnome-session”, “gnome-shell”, “ksmserver”, “xfce4-session” but in my KDE system none of these processes is running, so the notification icon is not shown. If you run the Read more…
The problem: you use Pidgin for instant messaging and you write in different languages but you can spell check only in the language of your operative system.
Firefox is a rock solid browser, but sometimes can look very slow compared to Chrome or similar browsers… You can fix this, going in config mode and changing some values: in the address URL bar, type about:config acknowledge the warning (you are going to change advanced settings) into the search Read more…