Setting up a SuSE 10.1 lab server for use with XEN virtualization, I ran into a snag where I had forgotten to allocate space for logical volume management (LVM) during the installation. Searching through nine zillion (possibly more) web sites and knowledgebase articles for resizing …
Now that Mozilla Firefox 2.0 is out, a lot of people will be scrambling to get their extensions and themes updated to work with the new version; well, at least us users will be looking for the updates. Let’s hope all the developers/producers out there …
From time to time, I need to boot one of my workstations into Windows instead of Linux, and I’m always reminded of the applications I take for granted under Linux. Although apps like GnomeTerminal need some serious attention in some areas, one quickly becomes accustomed …
From Tsuguya Sasaki’s “Thunderbird: Guide for the Perplexed”: Please Metricate Thunderbird! United States, the guardian of English as the putative universal language of computers and the Internet, is one of the three countries in the world (!) that do not use the metric system (aka …
I’ve been dragging my feet on upgrading my monitor at work. My Samsung 181T TFT was doing its job, and I’ve always thought of it as a good and solid monitor. At home, I’ve been using a variety of Samsung and HP TFT monitors, but …
Have you ever purchased something from Dell? If you haven’t, don’t.. unless you’re in constant need of recycled advertising material. Seriously.. I’ve made the “mistake” of buying three Dell products in my life, and I was apparently assigned as the contact person for a fourth. …
Playing around with Novell’s SLED 10 (short for “SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop“), I wanted to find a more quiet MetaCity window decoration than I had previously used. On the laptop where I’m testing SLED, the precious 1400×1050 resolution must be used to its maximum capacity. …
While converting a Drupal site to a Joomla site, the need to do a textual search and replace inside a MySQL-table came up. There are, of course, many ways of doing this, but the most simple way I could figure out was to use a …
A new version of the truly amazing piece of open source software going by the name of Webmin, by Jamie Cameron, has been released. If you’re in need of flexible, powerful, and a well-designed monitoring and server management system, you need to check Webmin out. …
This summer’s access to the on-line banking services provided by our banks could very well just have been optimized, and improved compared to last summer. One of the few problems with having a house in the Stockholm Archipelago is network coverage. Forget about tri-band and …