Chances are that your removable media preferences in GNOME are set in a way so that CDs get mounted automatically. There is a usability bug that comes into play whenever you try to blank an already written rewritable CD or DVD with Gnomebaker or directly with the command-line tool (cdrecord). An error message that the…
Mobile phones have never been one of my interests, but lately I decided to spend some more time exploring their capabilities. This includes phone maintenance, data management, data synchronization, networking etc. I do not own any expensive cellular phones (this is a matter of principal). Currently, I use an old Siemens S45 and a Sony-Ericsson…
Smart Bookmarks is an extension for the Epiphany browser. Admitedly, its name or description in the browser extensions panel does not help the user understand what exactly it is about. What is a smart bookmark after all?
Generally, the only reason for which you may need to create a bootable Windows CD is when you have updated the operating system installation files with the latest Service Pack (slipstream). Even in this case, chances are that most users will rather use standard windows software to create the bootable CDs than mkisofs under Linux,…
Some of you might have noticed that there have been some changes in the way readers can interact with g-loaded.eu over the last month. Comments and trackbacks are being disabled 20-30 days after the publication of a post, while a new facility, a discussion board, has been set up in order to compensate for the…
Reading a man page using a terminal application is easy, but I doubt if it would ever win a convenience award. Sometimes, it is necessary to print the man page. I can recommend two ways of doing this.
I guess that every single *nix user, at least once, has run across files with the *.run or *.bin extensions. These scripts are usually software installers and are widely used to distribute, but not limited to, proprietary software to the Unix world. Examples are the popular NVidia or ATI display drivers for Linux and other…
Apache is a very flexible web server implementation. The .htaccess files give the webmasters the ability to override the default server configuration on a per-directory basis, provided that httpd‘s configuration pernits the overrides of the htaccess file. I am aware that there are thousands of cheat sheets (aka ready-made recipes) out there, mostly implementing mod_rewrite…
Comment and trackback spam, content theft, splogs, are constant threats to the consistency of the blog content and also a common headache of bloggers. Recently, Lorelle published a list, or better a review, of plugins that prevent spam from reaching the public pages of a WordPress blog. As usual, her article is great, but there…
I am not sure if WordPress always supported scheduling a post for publishing in the future or if it is a new feature of the latest releases. I am quite sure though that I didn’t know about this, until today.