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Windows 7 DHCP annoyances
These days sensible DHCP daemons can be configured to assign a single IP to multiple MAC addresses. Probably the most common use case is a laptop that is connected to your LAN through wireless or wired for that gigabit goodness, but pretty much never with both adapters at the same time, eliminating concerns about clashing …
OS X Java Update keystore password: changeme
Maybe somone can explain what Apple’s idea of changing the keystore password from “changeit” to a radically different and cryptographically strong “changeme” is, except for the obvious goal of wasting my time having to google for it. So yeah, here’s how you import that self-signed certificate that you need: sudo keytool -import -alias some.host.com -keystore …
Version control for Gentoo make.conf, USE flags
Introduction I have recently implemented etckeeper and metastore to keep my Gentoo server:/etc directory under version control. Object of interest today is how to make a good git commit message regarding Gentoo’s /etc/make.conf and the long long USE flags (possibly multi-)line in there. Usually these USE flag changes happen in the process of reconfiguring some …
Help your Atom netbook play HD 1080p content with DXVA
Introduction This post describes a couple of discoveries regarding my Acer Aspire 751 11.6″ netbook and playing high definition video content on it.
twitter tools test
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Using apache authentication with gitweb, gitosis – repository access control
gitosis is a tool for simple hosting of git repositories and managing access to them. gitweb has capabilities to control which repositories are listed on the project list page – $strict_export, $export_auth_hook and some other friends. in my case, everyone accessing web resources are authenticating through apache, which in turn connects to an LDAP server. …
less is also tail, who knew?
Can’t believe I hadn’t come across this one before anywhere. You know the scenario when you’re debugging some wack crash or non-functionality in your Linux box and doing this over and over again: less /var/log/messages for reviewing what happened, then CTRL+C and: tail -f /var/log/messages to monitor what happens when you changed something. Well how …
Fixing Amilo A1650, Mobile Sempron overheating
Linking a couple of posts I made on encountering the subject: CPU overheats during high usage “throttling not supported” tldr: they’re cheap for a reason check thermal paste situation, it could be in terrible shape switch the 62W TDP Mobile Sempron out for a 25W TDP Mobile Turion
Firefox 3 (+possibly other apps) random crashing on OS X due to font cache corruption
One day Firefox 3.0.8 started randomly crashing on me, and some other folks as well. It is not possible to remember anymore whether there was a system crash / kernel panic / unclean shutdown beforehand. PanicReporter does show one for Mar 10, 2009, which actually sets the timeline for this problem up quite well.