File and directory browsing (downloads) for Joomla!

I’ve been revamping a site that’s been collecting dust for far too long. The original site is in really ugly (codewise and in design) plain vanilla HTML, so I’ve decided to move it to Joomla; not so much because Joomla is the ultimate tool for this site, but because there are too many fun CMS-type tools out there, I’d be doing nothing else but getting myself buried in playing with them 🙂

The quest at hand: to find a suitable file and directory browsing (aka “download”) add-on for Joomla.

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GParted, where the real partition magic is!

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 …

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Woa! Where did my Firefox 708090 theme go?!

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 …

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PuTTY with Tabs

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 …

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Please Metricate Thunderbird!

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 …

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You know you’re getting old..

.. when you start getting “Happy Birthday” messages from forums, user groups, portals, and other “web places” you can’t even remember you signed up for. It goes with the territory I suppose, when you sign up for technical support forums and other community sites; but …

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Dell is getting Dull

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. …

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Room to breathe

What a difference two days can make; specially if they’re spent on Blidö! We – being Göran, Alexander, and myself – decided to make a little road trip to Blidö for two days. The weather was perfect, sunny and warm. We spent a good three …

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Doing 250 km/h .. ouch!

Well, it’s been too long, but now I’m finally here again. Not that anybody may notice my absence besides myself. Anyway, it’s the 15th and I’ve logged some 158 working hours thus far. Something is obviously wrong with this picture, but at the moment, there …

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