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On windows I mostly use Putty as my SSH client. But in some cases for example when I use unison or rsync I use the ssh client from cygwin. Following good practice I use public key authentication and Putty's Pageant to manage my password protected keys. This works great with Putty and Plink. I [...] Today I had the problem that my Nokia N900 Mail for Exchange could not sync with my Zentyal server via Active Sync. After some research I found a solution in the Zarafa forum. It consists of activating LOOSE_PROVISIONING in your z-push config.php. If you are using Zentyal 2.0 this is located at /usr/share/z-push/config.php and [...] Sometimes there is a bug in a package from ubuntu that is not yet fixed, or you just want to modify something in the source of a software. Here is an easy way to build your own package from the ubuntu sources. First you need to install the required tools for building software from [...] I just found a nice method to invoke screen automatically if after login via SSH. So you don't have to manually start it first. Put the following at the end of your ~/.bashrc # Auto-screen invocation. see: http://taint.org/wk/RemoteLoginAutoScreen # if we're coming from a remote SSH connection, in an interactive session # then automatically [...] Yesterday I released Bazaar Pro Engineer Helpers 0.3.0 it supports recognizes more file types and does some more cleaning if you use the --purge option. You can download it on Launchpad or directly form my site. Installation instructions can be found here. Additionally is now listed at Softpedia. Recently I published an init.d script for debian/ubuntu to start wuala in headless mode. Since some time now I have a mediacenter running on Archlinux so the debian init.d script needed some change to run properly. I'm currently putting together a package to install wuala on archlinux with via pacman. In the meantime I [...] Since I switched to Snow Leopard I was not satisfied with the printing drivers for my old HP OfficeJet 95. I used the included Gutenprint drivers. For text they worked ok, but images looked terrible. Today I decided to do something about it. From Linux I know that HPLIP has some pretty good driver [...] I recently had the problem to enable 5.1 Sound with 3 click outputs on an Nvidia ION board. By default Linux configures it with only one plug configured as output. After some research I found a solution in the OpenSUSE Wiki you have to set during module loading to get it working. Basically you [...] I recently wanted to install Wuala on my brand new media center PC running Ubuntu on it. It was not that hard because there is an excellent tutorial on how to setup wuala on a headless machine. Unfortunately there was no script to start and stop Wuala on system start-up and shutdown. So I [...] Update: Sony released a new version of their BIOS which allows the activation via menu. I found a nice tutorial how to enable the Support for Intel VT on a Sony Vaio, with Firmware. Just follow the tutorial on this site. |
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