http://blog.delgurth.com If only a day had 48 hours... Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:12:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Update: The maintainer of the wordpress package released "my" bugfix. It's available now for those using unstable (sid). I guess it will be available in testing (lenny) soon, since the bug is listed in the release critical bugs list. To bad he credited me with the name Del Gurt, but ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2008/09/07/broken-wordpress-debian-unstable-is-called-unstable-for-a-reason/ I'm using Subversive within Eclipse to provide SVN support. But since I'm now using SVN+SSH as connection mechanism to SVN, I wanted to use my SSH Key to do the authentication for me. It took me some time to find out (find with google ;) how I could get this ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2008/08/17/eclipse-subversive-svnssh-and-putty-agent-pageant/ 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 change the language. In the end I found a FAQ ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2008/08/17/changing-spell-checker-language-in-camino-on-os-x-104/ Seems my previous blog post about the Belkin is found quite often when people search for how to get it to work on Ubuntu in general, also with ndiswrapper. Please note, my post is not about getting it to work with ndiswrapper (that worked fine in my case, but I'm ... http://blog.delgurth.com/2008/08/17/followup-on-the-belkin-f5d8053-and-ubuntu/