[HOW TO] get the damn thing working
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Rapache returns ?
Not without a certain pleasure I announce that I got Rapache fixed and working again. Rapache is a graphical user tool to help you configure Apache2. It allows easy creation of virtual name hosts and modules activation without prior knowledge of configuration files. I still …
Script to enable disable panels auto hide
You may remember about an old post of mine where I show a little trick to make gnome panel auto-hiding actually usable. I have been pleased, today, to find a script automating the whole thing, so I thought I’d share. The code belongs …
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Jamendo direct download with Rhythmbox [HowTo]
While Rhythmbox allows you to download songs from Jamendo via BitTorrent, that method is horribly broken as there are pretty much no seeders. Here’s a quick tutorial to have Rhythmbox open your browser at Jamendo’s direct download page. Backup JamendoSource.py to be sure to be …
Debugging AndroidX86 with Adb
If you running Android X86 inside a virtual machine (such as VirtualBox) and would like to use it to debug your apps with ADB but still cannot connect you may find useful to do what follows: Open the terminal inside your emulated device (alt+f1) and …
Slow WPA Wireless with a Broadcom card on Ubuntu 10.10
When your phone connects to the Wifi better than your PC, it makes you think that something is not that ok with your computer. In my case my Macbook with Maverick suffered extremely slow wireless connections when connecting to WPA hotspot. Looking on google just brought to a bunch of pretty esoteric solutions that I [...]
How to fix HTC Desire HD lag
Htc Desire HD (Android Phone) is probably the best smartphone around, but unfortunately it suffers from an unfixed bug that from time to time, busts the init process to take approximately 80% of the CPU, making the whole experience extremely slow and frustrating. While …
Where is the Insert key on a Mac keyboard ?
If you’re unlucky like me and own a MacBook, you won’t have an Insert key on your keyboard. In such case the overwrite mode can be toggled on Apple keyboards by pressing Fn+Return. So at least you’ll know how to deactivate it after having triggered it by accident. (also the Delete is fn+Backspace. How frustrating [...]
How to repeat a shell command N times
Last day, I needed to repeat a shell command a arbitrary number of times, and all I found was the suggestion to use the repeat command. Sadly, I haven’t been able to found that command in Ubuntu, but after some research I could luckily find something useful. What follows is a very simple bash implementation of [...]
Google Chrome for Linux
Google just released a preview release of Google Chrome. Not Chromium which is the open source project Chrome is based on, but Google Chrome itself. I’m not copy pasting the install instruction. Find out about the debs and ppas …
Strip Mono from Ubuntu and prevent it from coming back
I’ve recently heard that a discussion about Ubuntu default media player has taken place at the Karmic UDS. News is that Banshee will likely take the place of Rhythmbox sooner or later (possibly in time for Karmic Koala). I don’t really blame the decision, …
