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Thanks to TweetPhoto.com Everyone Knows Im a Pervert
So tweetphoto.com plans to dominate the twitter photo upload market by copying twitpic.com and adding very little to set it apart… except for the built-in tracking that reveals on the front page what I really think about day and night…
Fix Slow Scrolling in jEdit
So far jEdit is proving to be a great editor (FTP/SFTP support is great) but after tweaking it to my liking (BufferTabs plugin, fonts, etc.) I noticed that scrolling the main text area had become very slow. I didn’t want to just blame Java so I looked it up and found the cause.
Fix slow connections to Ubuntu SSH servers
As of Ubuntu 8.10 and older, connections to SSH servers with default configs can be annoyingly slow. This is because the OpenSSH daemon uses DNS to run a reverse lookup on the client to be sure that they aren’t faking their hostname. You can disable most look-ups by implementing the following setting: As root edit [...]
Hide Administrator from Welcome Screen in Vista
By default the Administrator account in Vista is Disabled – everything is run in a sudo fashion without actually logging in to the Administrator account. Some times due to external password recovery systems or other various reasons the built-in Administrator account is enabled, causing it to show up on the Welcome Screen. In order to [...]
HP Service is Scared of a little Bug
After spending 6+ hours on the phone with HP Technical Support (not an exaggeration) attempting to convince them that the issue with our customer’s HP Slimline was in fact hardware related and not a configuration problem (that’s another story), they finally agreed to replace the motherboard under warranty. When we got the computer back and [...]
Fix Vista Update Loop
Symptoms include this message on boot: “configuring updates stage 3 of 3. 0% complete” and then an automatic reboot and the same message over and over again in an endless loop.
Missing User Accounts in Windows XP
So this time they weren’t hidden ’cause they weren’t in the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList But they didn’t show up in the Accounts Control Panel or in Run > control userpasswords2. But they do show up when you run the command: net user aaand each account is active.. BUT they had no groups assigned to [...]
Atheros Wireless in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Did a fresh install + updates of Kubuntu 8.10 on a customer’s laptop and had no wireless even though it’s an Atheros chipset.
Using SIW to Find Hardware in Windows
I’ve often resorted to loading up a Linux livecd and running “lspci” just to get an idea of what hardware is in a box. Let’s face it, even if box manufacturers do provide the drivers you need, that model may have shipped with one of 4 different NICs, video cards, etc. So it used to [...]
Useful find Commands
Recursive, multi-file find and replace with grep and xargs for performance: Source: http://www.jonasblog.com/2006/05/search-and-replace-in-all-files-within-a-directory-recursively.html grep -rl 'what_to_find' ./ | xargs sed -i 's/what_to_find/what_to_replace_with/g' Put a not in front of that expression: find ./ ! -type d Escape wildcards to avoid the shell expanding them: If you just quote it; “*.avi” you can often run into trouble. [...]
