When installing Linux I always create a separate partition for my home folder. The main reason for this is that a reinstall of the operating system does not necessarily have to affect my home folder. On Linux this is a very simple task done during the installation process, but Os [...]
How to successfuly move a WordPress blog from one location (url/server) to another (LAMPP installation). This includes, making a complete backup of the filesystem and database, creating a new database and a user for your blog, and finally change settings and content to apply to your new installation. Installing the [...]
Ever felt a bit tired of the same old Leopard desktop? Yesterday I started to fool around to see what possibilities Apple has left “open” to the users to change with out too much hastle. The result of this research is that it is not much, but a few tweeks [...]
I just installed Oracle XE following the instructions I got from here. After the installation I was unable to successfully log into the Database Home page. It told me: Invalid Login Credentials. This seams to be a common problem with the Linux installation. The solution is all though very simple [...]
Simple script based on Google.pl to query wikipedia. Print to channel as public message or keep the results private (default). Specify max number of results or which result out of many you want. E.g If somebody needs info about the java programming language. You could first do a private search [...]Sends all public messages from all active channels to the window named ‘allpubmsgs’, excluding the currently active window and any channel names in the exclude list. Displays channel names with different colors. I use this script together with the ‘hilightwin.pl’. I have split my irssi terminal into 3 windows, one [...]To stay in touch with all your contacts you often install many different kinds of IM-applications. In a worst case scenario you could end up with one application for each of these services: MSN, Google Talk, AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, IRC, Facebook Chat, Twitter, Skype and maybe a few more, but [...]In my first attempt I made an installer with a libsamplerate library that had some issues with OS X 10.5. The new build is tested on both 10.5.8 and 10.6.2 and should work on all Intel Macs running OS X 10.5 or newer. The installer can be downloaded from the [...]Since a lot of people don’t have the Developer Tools package installed, and doing so maybe just to try out one application is a bit tedious, I have put together an installer package for RaopX. The installer should work on any Intel based Mac running Os X 10.5 or newer, [...]Setup subversion as an xinetd process in a few simple steps.Since Snow Leopard broke GPGMail I started to use Mutt, and I wanted to use lbdb to be able to search my Os X Address Book for contacts. With Snow Leopard also comes a new Xcode release, version 3.2, and that made some problems when trying to build ABQuery in [...]It’s been a while since I’ve done anything useful with Python, but just the other day I felt a sudden urge to pick it up again. I needed to get my old development environment with PyQt4 and Pydev up and running. I downloaded the latest version of Sip and PyQt [...]Since it doesn’t look like I’ll manage to take this project any further in any near future I have decided make the source code available for download. There has not been any changes to the code base since late July. The program is distributed in the hope that it will [...]After several days of trying and failing miserably in every attempt of removing RaopX’s need of a temporary audio file to stream from I got fed up and had to work at something else for a while. I got my mind tuned in on Zero Conf or Bonjour as Apple [...]