Firefox is a rock solid browser, but sometimes can look very slow compared to Chrome or similar browsers… You can fix this, going in config mode and changing some values: in the address URL bar, type about:config acknowledge the warning (you are going to change advanced settings) into the search Read more…
Today I have to fix a bugged program developed with Apple Xcode. Fixing broken code and replacing deprecated functions is a very energy consuming job and having a version control service can relieve the pain. Luckily Apple Xcode can natively work with GIT but this feature is not simple to enable. Read more…
Sometimes opening a big PDF file with your favourite image editor (maybe GIMP?) only to extract a JPG of the first page is a waste of time. Using the convert command (from the ImageMagick suite) you can do this task in less time needed to launch the image editor itself Read more…
Ok, also with the new Windows 8.1 release, I’m experiencing serious problems with my external USB3 drive. I have found this excellent guide, explaining how to replace the broken “Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller – 0100 (Microsoft)” with the Intel driver: Windows 8 and Intel USB 3.0 Host Controllers Read more…
If you have some images with the sequential name (like image0001.jpg, image0002.jpg etc…) and you want to make a video, with Linux is very easy. You need ffmpeg: ffmpeg -r 25 -pattern_type glob -i '*.jpg' -c:v libx264 output.mp4 You can change the frame-rate modifying the number after “-r” (in my Read more…
I use often lftp to move data from server to server/client. I like this FTP client because is small, very powerful to use and present in every Linux distribution. Plus, I can run lftp from the shell (maybe from a screen session) and forget it until the job is done Read more…
This is a very fast and great program to undelete files for Windows. It’s powered by a nice wizard (easy even for the average user) and it simply make the job. You can easily recover photos from a formatted SD/CF card. Plus: the base version is also free. Surely you Read more…
The problem: you have a PDF with some coloured elements (like some logo, separation lines, etc…) but you need a PDF in B/W. The solution: you can print your file (with a B/W printer) and then scan it 🙂 or, using GPL Ghostscript, run this command… gs -sDEVICE=pnggray -r150x150 -sOutputFile=output-%02d.png Read more…
Source: Alex Klink’s tech blog: VirtualBox – upgrading Windows XP VMs to 2 CPU. I repost this tip because it’s very useful and I don’t want to loose it if the source blog disappears 🙂 Symptom: If you had Windows XP VM with only 1 CPU created / virtalized earlier Read more…
You can bind a specific IP address from the router, but if you are not the network administrator (eg: you work with your laptop) you can try to request your “preferred” IP address editing your dhclient.conf like the following example (append this config to the bottom of the file): interface Read more…