Personally, 2008 has been a turbulent and life changing year. As the year draw to a close, I will like to wish everyone a better 2009. May you find happiness in the new year.
Best wishes for holiday!
There wasn’t any post this week, and it appeared as if I have gone on vacation without any notice. [...]
For reasons which I am not going to explain here, the root partition of my eeePC (running Ubuntu Intrepid) has gone dangerously low on disk space. Usually, I have about 250MB to 300MB remaining in the partition. But twice now, the free disk space went below 50MB, and once almost at zero. When the disk [...]
Pdftk is a command line tool to manipulate PDF. Some of the features include rearrange, remove, add/merge and rotate pages. Don’t be put off by the lack of GUI. Pdftk is simple to use with easy to understand syntax. It is also one of the few tool where the man page has useful usage examples [...]
So it’s time to upgrade the slug’s Debian NSLU2 from Etch to Lenny. Every upgrade carried a risk, depending on how much you have customised the installation. In my case, the risk was small since I have made little change to the default install. In spite of that, the hassle and significant time penalty in [...]
This post is dedicated to former brothers and sisters in arms. We have fought side-by-side in many unforgettable battles. Unfortunately, a bunch of us were shown the doors a few months ago, and now most of the rest have also been axed. I feel your pain. Hang in there, don’t be discouraged. And to those [...]
This afternoon, I added a few WordPress plugins. Unfortunately, one of them broke a large number of external links. After a few hours going through the entire site, I think I have managed to fix everything. However, if you find any broken link, I would very much appreciate it if you could leave a comment [...]
Part 5 chronicles my investigation of the various issues, after getting iplist to work on the Debian NSLU2 in part 4. In summary, the issues I found were: 1. iplist did not start; 2. iplist did not properly stop; 3. iplist not working after automatic update of blocklists; 4. not enough physical memory.
Ever since advanced desktop effects (previously Beryl or Compiz, now Compiz Fusion) were introduced, there has been an annoying broken-ness of the default Ubuntu screenshot tool. Basically, the screenshot of a window is missing the window’s frame. This problem was reported two years ago here, and remained unfixed to date. Ok, two years should be [...]
Beginning from Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, xdotool is added into the repositories. Xdotool is an application that allows you to control various X11 elements from the command line. In other words, you could change a window’s size, send keystrokes to an application, move and click the mouse, etc. So what? I could imagine that being able [...]
