I use an old bt878-based TV capture card, whose remote control needs the lirc_gpio driver in order to work. I remember that this specific LIRC driver could not be compiled after upgrading to kernel 2.6.17. I investigated this problem a couple of days ago and it seems that the cause of this issue is the…
I use MediaWiki as a personal note-taking, documentation and code snippet storage system. This was started as an experiment, but a wiki proved to be a decent solution for the above tasks. This is a small checklist, mainly for my own reference, to follow when upgrading MediaWiki.
After having a look at the upcoming stories over at digg.com‘s Unix/Linux section, I noticed a reference to an LDAP HOWTO. This article goes in depth describing the LDAP protocol. I didn’t have the time to read it thoroughly, but this is a must read. The author writes: LDAP is a complex subject. This Guide…
I hate hardware failures. I hate them even more when they happen when I am busy with other things and don’t have the time or the mood to deal with such unexpected situations.
ModSecurity is an Apache module which adds an extra layer of security by analyzing client requests before they are processed by Apache and, furthermore, by analyzing server responses after a request has been processed. This article intends to be a ModSecurity overview and to provide the reader with the basic knowledge about the most important…
This is a quick tip about how to open new tabs with Python code in Epiphany.
The availability of good and complete documentation for an API is one of the most important factors in order someone to be able to effectively use that API for application programming. Good API documentation saves time and effort. It provides all the information a developer, either professional or amateur, would need in order to use…
If you use cElementTree and try to create an XML file that uses some extra XML namespaces, you will encounter a wierd situation when the final file is written.
One of the features I’d like all browsers, that support tabbed-browsing, should include by default is to let the user save the current window’s tab layout (aka tab session) to a file and also provide the ability to load such a saved tab session. My main browser, Epiphany, does not have this functionality and I…
I’ve made some progress with the cElementTree Python module. After reading the available documentation and the RSS 2.0 specification, I was able to write a very simplistic RSS 2.0 feed generator in order to demonstrate the usage of this module. There is no such example in the documentation, so this might be useful to someone.