Tutorial

Google PDF viewer on Chromium

This is a tutorial (more like a code dumb) on how to enable the pdf viewer plugin from google chrome in chromium. wget …

Flashing BIOS (Acer Aspire 2920z)

A few weeks ago my precious Acer Aspire 2920z started misbehaving. The symptoms: Power and battery leds flashing as soon as I plug it in. Automatic power on as soon as I plug it …

Changing the default browser in Thunderbird

If you are unable to launch Firefox from URL links in a Thunderbird mail message, or if you want to change the browser that is launched, add the following lines to the user.js …

How to create local git repositories

Create the repo directory (the ‘.’ prefix is to make it hidden) mkdir .myrepo.git Go inside the directory cd .myrepo.git Initialize the git repo git init --bare Our repo is now …

Changing user id in linux

As a different user execute usermod -u username find / -user ; -exec chown -h ; {} \; example: usermod -u 2179 user1 find / -user 1000 -exec chown -h 2179 {} \;

Mounting remote folders with sshfs

This tutorial will show you how to mount a remote folder, that you can access through sftp, on your local filesystem. First you will need to set up your ssh connection to work …

How to use your Google OpenID on sites supporting OpenID

Simply typehttps://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id as your OpenID and it will do the trick ;)

SSH login without password

Open your favorite terminal emulator and type ssh-keygen -t dsa (simply enter on whatever it asks you) try ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub [email protected] if it fails (you …

Synchronizing iphone on linux

Required packages: libgpod4, gtkpod, ifuse, usbmuxd Steps: After having installed the above packages sudo mkdir /media/iPhone (you can choose whatever location you desire) sudo …

Connect to UCNET over vpn on ubuntu

Go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager Search for pptp and install pptp-linux and network-manager-pptp click the network manager and go to VPN …