Category Archives: Misc
Bluetooth using the gui in Ubuntu
Bluetooth is of course a well-known mechanism for connecting mobile phones and pda’s to computers and laptops. It is low-power, easy to setup, and works out of the box on most systems. Until recently setting up serial over bluetooth in … Continue reading
Lightweight & fast webmail client
My main home server is a measly pentium II class machine running (now) on Debian Etch. Not the fastest machine but it works, uses little power and is cheap while setup from left-overs. Among other things it serves me my … Continue reading
Backup an entire disk to another (larger) disk
After some troubles with my desktop computer it’s going to be replaced with a new one. The desktop originally only had 1 disk, and that was going to be replaced as well, so I needed a backup. But I did … Continue reading
New theme part III
After last nights debacle with the live search plugin, I tried an other one that was based on it: Live search popup. Unfortunately that one didn’t display very well in my theme, so I just removed it and won’t be … Continue reading
New theme continued: why not to trust plugins
With this new theme I also saw that it was compatible with the “Addicted to live search plugin”[1]. (Un)fortunately this plugin doesn’t work out of the box either, at least not if you do not have WordPress running directly in … Continue reading
New theme
A while ago I decided to change the default WordPress theme into the Freshy2 theme, since I liked the looks of it… I now partially wish I did not do that… Changing the theme was not trivial… Mainly because of … Continue reading
Posting in the future…
Seems I just made a post 1 hour into the future and with that, on a different day. The WordPress settings say Unfortunately, you have to manually update this for Daylight Savings Time. Lame, we know, but will be fixed … Continue reading
Changing spell checker language in Camino on OS X 10.4
From time to time I use my mac-mini to blog. But the spell checker of OS X is defaulted to Dutch, which is quite annoying if you try to blog in English. And I found that it’s not easy to … Continue reading
Keyboard shortcuts
Perhaps you have noted that I added a new site to the list of sites I like: Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Day. Using keyboard shortcuts just improves your work speed a lot. A few windows shortcuts that I didn’t … Continue reading
WordPress … I really need to change my blogging software
Today I accidentally found a bug in a version of a wordpress stats plugin. I searched for a word with a “‘” in it (foto’s) and as a result I got the following error on some blog: WordPress database error: … Continue reading