Posts Tagged ‘how-to’

Did you ever find yourself at work with a remote session on your Ubuntu server (or workstation) invoked by ssh -X command and needed to launch users-admin or some similar graphical application that need a sudo (or root) authentication to work?
Did you ever got frustrated of not having the possibility to enter or see accepted [...]

My 2003 post on how to see Matroska encoded videos on Mac OS X in these two years has proven to be on of (if not the) most successfull post of this blog.
Well, two years later I’ve discovered the mPlayer OSX extended project, which updates the mPlayer binary code to an updated code base.
Let’s [...]

First of all sorry for the screenshot, which is in Italian … I hope you’ll understand where the Wi-Fi control panel it’s located anyway

It’s been a frantic end of the week and only in the last couple of days I’ve become aware that my iPhone 3G isn’t Wi-Fi capable anymore …. iPhone which has been [...]

Lately at work I’m being occupied preparing the “golden” node of a 14 machines pool of CentOS servers to be cloned and I’ve found myself in the situation of having to install Java on this Red Hat derived Linux distribution.
Unfortunately, even if Sun has released the whole Java ambaradan with a free software licence, [...]

Here we are againg few days after my previous post about disassembling the Western Digital MyBook Pro Editionexternal hard drive.
After disassembling it I’ve tried in many ways (and with different tools) to recover it’s content, unfortunately without success … probably the recent, and frequent, mechanical sollecitations it has been subjected during the home/work/home daily [...]