Rudix-SnowLeopard is a collection of Unix software packages for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Usually I prefer Macports, but you must have installed Xcode and it’s not always possible. With Rudix you can install only what you need (even from Read more…
Recently I had to clean a website infected by the c3284d virus. I don’t have found much documentation about this virus, however it’s seems to me much a trojan infecting websites through grabbed FTP accounts instead a virus. In my Read more…
I’m a huge fan of CheckGmail, a small and elegant perl script to check your Gmail mailbox. This piece of software is awesome: it’s lightweight, works with KDE/Gnome/Whatever, it’s multi account, supports Gmail hosted domains, it’s multi language, etc… But Read more…
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Usually when using VIM from a console terminal the commented lines are dark blue. A very pain in the eye. You can change this colour, creating a file .vimrc in your home folder with this content: highlight Comment ctermfg=DarkGreen
When playing with unetbootin or some other software for converting a ISO image to a USB stick, you can get, trying to boot from USB, a message like this: ERROR: No configuration file found. No default or UI configuration directive Read more…
You can install VMware ESXi on VirtualBox without having to deal with real hardware. Sure, the performances are not so good, but this setup it’s a little test lab you can use to take confidence with the ESXi platform. The only Read more…
The task of the day: extract all images from a PDF file. I have found a little utility on my Linux box called pdfimages (it’s from the package xpdf). With this great command line tool you can save all the Read more…
Today I have to choose an operating system to replace a very old server with Windows 2000. Usually, when I have to do tasks like this one, I like getting my hands dirty with the old school approach: choose a Read more…
This summer I was in holiday in Greece (you know, to help the economy and for the stunning sea 🙂 ) and I have solved all my Internet needs with a very great device: Huawei E5331 This little white box Read more…