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This web app can share your screen (it’s a view only application, not like VNC/remote desktop) to who you want.
This is a great solution to help friends (or maybe also customers) watching directly the remote screen.
It’s safe and easy (it uses JAVA to do the trick – so the sharing screen system must [...]
Today, trying to slice an image with Gimp, with my Kubuntu Oneiric I have found this strange error message: “TypeError in slice(): integer argument expected, got float”.
This is a well know bug, but until it will be fixed, you can fix it by yourself.
Run from the terminal your favorite text editor (gedit, kate, [...]
I’m a huge fan of Simple Backup for many reasons (simple personal backup configuration, settings profile, etc…).
The last Ubuntu version, Oneiric Ocelot, contains a bug preventing SBackup from running from a system wide cron-job and storing the backup data on remote drive.
If you have this problem, from the logs, you can [...]
This livecd it’s a simple but powerful solution to backup and restore partitions.
Easy graphical user interface boots from CD in less than a minute No installation needed; runs from a CD-ROM or a USB stick Saves and restores Windows and Linux machines Automatically finds local network shares Access your files even if you can’t log [...]
Recently I have discovered two new (at least for me) utilities:
I’m using gzip and bzip2 from ages, and also multiple processors and multiple cores, so why don’t use multi-threading compression utilities? They are (obviously) binary compatible with the old counterparts and they [...]
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!
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:
# Security mode. [...]
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 problem on many installations (mostly [...]
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…
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
