Here is what I found the hard way. Sometime you want WordPress to install plugins, themes and all and do not want to pass through an ssh or ftp connection in order to achieve this. Maybe you have your own machine and do not want to run or configure an ssh or ftp server (which [...]
I’ve recently tried setting some sites icon to appear as the small icon you see at the tab you are browsing it. This icon is called favicon.ico and is located in your servers root directory which resides in /var/www on standard systems. When changing this icon and reloading the page in Chrome the icon got [...]
If you want to remove all packages which are in the “rc” state (means that the package was already removed but only it’s configuration remained) you can use the following command as administrator: dpkg –purge `dpkg –list | grep “^rc” | tr -s ” ” | cut -d ” ” -f 2` Take care to [...]
I’m using both DropBox and Ubuntu one services in my desktop and laptop machines and I find dropbox much superior. Here are the reasons why: You can get ridd of dropbox (just dpkg –remove it). Installation is very easy (apt-get install). It is very clear that dropbox is running (via the tray icon). The tray [...]
I just upgraded the blog to the new 3.0 release. The upgrade is quite easy so there is no reason to fear it. The real reason for my upgrade is the multi site feature (I want to open another blog in Hebrew). The multi site feature is quite cool and allows you to have as [...]
I wanted to convert some video files on my Linux system to the xvid codec so that I could see them on my PS3. The solution I found was using the mencoder package. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 [...]
As part of a crusade to find bugs in a C++ program running on a Solaris system I needed to find out information about all the threads belonging to a certain process. The program is written the way it is because you rarely need thread info about all threads running in a system but rather [...]
I have moved my blog from Google to my own machine. This is the new blog. I need to transfer all my old posts from my old machine. Hope you will like this one better than the old but this will assuredly give me more control over my data and the blogs look feel and [...]