http://blog.delgurth.com If only a day had 48 hours... Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:21:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ubuntu/debian wasn't a trivial task. I was by all means ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2009/03/15/bluetooth-using-the-gui-in-ubuntu/ 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 email when not at home using RoundCube Webmail. With the ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2009/02/15/lightweight-fast-webmail-client/ Debian's configuration management might take some getting used to, but after you learn your way around /etc/{default,init.d,} it makes good sense. Now when you have to do the same thing over and over again (ever said yes 25 times to Sun's java license?), or you find that after a dist-upgrade your ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2009/01/19/pre-loading-debconf-values-for-easy-installation/ As trivial as its configuration actually is, I find it surprising there is no easy (as in GUI-driven) way to connect your (K)Ubuntu/Debian box to existing Cups infrastructures. Even in (K)Ubuntu 8.10 you need to use Konsole or Terminal. But then it is easy. Easy but poorly documented. Assuming you have a ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2009/01/06/connecting-ubuntu-client-to-cups-server/ 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 not want to backup just my files, I wanted a ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2008/12/09/backup-an-entire-disk-to-another-larger-disk/ In the past few days I've been helping a new colleague at my current job with getting his development area setup in Ubuntu. Most of us work with Windows, including myself since I'm not working on my laptop but on a provided desktop, so helping someone with Ubuntu is nice ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2008/11/11/ubuntu-local-domain-resolving-issues-and-iptables-prerouting/ 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 offering a "Web 2.0" search option for now. Further changes to ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2008/10/31/new-theme-part-iii/ 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 the root. But... Since I was looking at the code to ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2008/10/31/new-theme-continued-why-not-to-trust-plugins/ 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 two problems: 1. In the wp-content/themes/freshy2/functions.php file on line 474 it ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2008/10/31/new-theme/ 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 in the future. Lame indeed, and guess I forgot about this. A ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2008/10/30/posting-in-the-future/