djmount – mount AV device as filesystem. This small software can do amazing things 🙂 Using djmount you can access transparently all UPNP/DNLA from your network with your preferred media player. This program is also present in the Ubuntu repos! After installing djmount, open a terminal and type: mkdir -p Read more…
Recently using VirtualBox on Mac, I enabled the Remote Desktop Extension but no way to get it working. After a little research I have discovered you must install also the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack to get the RDP working. Apparently, the Extension Pack must be installed every time you Read more…
When you share a directory from OSX Mountain Lion via SAMBA you can mount it from Linux but you cannot write into it. This problem is related to a new authentication mode present into Mountain Lion (and also in Lion). To resolve this annoying problem, you have to add this Read more…
When printing and saving as PDF files, from Mac, the Title and Author are filled in automatically by default. The window title is the Title, and the current user is the Author. I have not found any way to setup the default settings Title and Author to be blank. However, using Read more…
I have published a page teaching how to install OpenELEC (an embedded operating system built specifically to run XBMC) directly into the HDD instead of a USB key/memory card. The tutorial includes also GRUB modifications and more 🙂
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Recently I have discovered two new (at least for me) utilities: – pigz – Parallel gzip – pbzip2 – Parallel bzip2 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 Read more…