It is more and more obvious that while Thunderbird and Firefox are awesome programs, lately Mozilla is starting to implement design “features” which, while appealing and useful for a new/novice user, are a hassle for old power users…
Sonata Arctica’s (power metal) latest album – Stones grow her name – brings us this very special song…
I’m in a cleaning frenzy today, so using WinDirStat I’ve begun to inspect every little corner of my Windows partition for wasteful unnecessary and leftover files.
One of the places that always bugged my for taking up space is the Windows\Installer folder…
I decided to rearrange space a bit on the new CentOS server I am setting up…
This tutorial lists the steps I took to resize (grow) a functional RAID1 volume to a new size without losing data.
One of the gadgets I started using recently is the “Now Playing” gadget.
One issue I noticed though is its inability to display the trackname for tracks which lack the ID3 tag. The widget would just switch to its “Play a file in Winamp” message. So after a bit of tinkering, I managed to get it to use the track filename and display that instead…
Sometimes a redirect from the root of the website to the subfolder is needed. The following .htaccess rules achieve just that…
Just like in real-life construction and rebuilding, you sometimes need to demolish and rebuild an existing website. And you probably want to do this behind a very nice and safe wall.
The wall, in our case, will be a “currently rebuilding. please visit soon” index.html file. If directory index priority is set to html then php, now the index.html file will be our visible website and hide the soon-to-be-demolished php-based website.
This is an extract from WD’s own “Model Number Format for OEM and Distribution Channels” document – describing what each letter/number of a WD hard drive model number refers to.
It’s great that Linux nowadays supports all the power management features available on computers. But it’s odd that beside the buttons to trigger standby/hibernate – which are only available in a graphical interface – there are no simple console commands to put the computer to sleep or into hibernation.
I recently attempted to install a fresh CentOS on a pair of recycled (previously used in a different linux sistem) hard disks.
Of course I got the classical message that the disks already had RAID metadata on them: “Disk contains BIOS metadata, but is not part of any recognized BIOS RAID sets. Ignoring disk sda”
