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Apple’s Time Machine software made it easy to set up incremental back-ups, with one exception: network drives (more formally called network-attached storage, or NAS). Time Machine only directly supports drives formatted with Apple’s HFS+J file system, and will eventually use all disk space on the drive. This page provides an illustrated guide showing how to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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…
