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This blog posts describes how to compile TraceMonkey, Firefox's 3.5 fast JavaScript interpreter at the i386 32-bit Linux command-line. T...

The photo manager F-Spot stores all picture file names in the SQLite database ~/.gnome2/f-spot/photos.db . This blog post explains how to up...

To refresh /dev/disk/by-label or /dev/disk/by-uuid on Linux (tested on Ubuntu Hardy), run sudo udevadm trigger and wait a few seconds. It...

This blog post describes how to get rid of pulseaudio (the PulseAudio sound server) on a Debian or Ubuntu system. The solution presented h...

This blog post shows the two winning solutions for the TeX argument parsing problem proposed by Kees van der Laan on the EuroTeX 2009 confe...

This is a collection of random notes about using the ASRock ION 330 nettop with Ubuntu Jaunty. This nettop is a perfect candidate for a Lin...

This blog post explains how to disable the notification box with dark gray (black) background in the top right corner of the Mac OS X scree...

This blog post explains how to set up keys PageUp , PageDown , Home and End and their shifted variants in the Mac OS/X Terminal applicatio...

This blog post explains how to set up the DHCP server running within OpenWRT so it always assigns the same IP address to some of the hosts. ...

See the most up-to-date version of the cheat sheet at http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/bibtex-cheat-sheet.txt . A quick copy: * Based on informat...

GRUB4DOS is a flexible, feature-extended version of the GRUB boot manager. This blog post explains how to create a bootable CD which boots G...

GRUB4DOS is a flexible, feature-extended version of the GRUB boot manager. This blog post explains how to create a bootable floppy which boo...

This blog post tells you how to configure dynamic DNS (using dyndns.org) on your router running OpenWRT Kamikaze. The instructions havene be...

If you want to render SVG vector graphics with text (i.e. convert it to a PNG), you might experience some problems: 1. the antialiasing glit...

I was facing a problem with Ghostscript 8.54 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite . When embedding a Type 1 font to the PDF, Ghostscript splitted the font to t...

This blog post demonstrates a TeX macro hack: using \romannumeral to expand many macros in a single expansion. The example goal is to defin...

This post gives a possible solution for typesetting two similar versions of the same LaTeX document differing only in some text fragments. H...

Let's suppose you have one or more local CVS and/or SVN repositories, and you want to merge them (with their change history) to new dire...

Example syntax highlighted Python code: (please ignore) def Hello ( self , x , y ): return x * y + "foo" # bar The s...

The blog post Ruby on Rails Unit Tests explains why it is a bad idea to give the unit tests access to the database, and how to set up your ...

ClassPublic.Java is a Java .class file converter which makes a Java class public and non-final, its fields public and its methods public and...

jdisasm.py is a Java class file disassembler implemented as a Python script. jdisasm.py displays a java .class file in a human readable form...

This post gives step-by-step instructions on deploying a Ruby on Rails application on a Linux-based server using Phusion Passenger and Ruby ...

There is a bug which prevents correct routing with Phusion Passenger 2.2.2 and Rails 2.3.2 (>= 2.2.2) and RailsBaseUri . For example, if ...

Recently I modified the Windows XP registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage\OEMCP from 437 to 65001 ,...

If you have a Philips laptop and you want to boot Ubuntu Hardy and Intrepid on it, the system might hang indefinitely while booting (not rea...

This post describes how to set up your /etc/X11/xorg.conf on Linux if you have a laptop with an NVIDIA video card, and you want to attach a...