Archive for the ‘Tips and tricks’ Category
It’s been almost a week since I got Motorola Milestone. It’s an Android based phone and I absolutly love it. Actually I’m using it to write this post. And since it’s running on an open source platform, it will provide many hours of fixing and twicking.
First quirk you’ll notice soon after booting your new toy [...]
For some time now Google is running Google Forms service which allows anyone to create web forms using extremely simple creator. Just log in to your google account, go to documents to try yourself:
Then follow on-screen instruction, there’s nothing that can cause any trouble to anyone. When you save the form, you will get email with [...]
VirtualBox on Ubuntu has an issue preventing host waking up from suspend. This issue is marked as resolved, but unfortunately it’s still present in 3.1.2 r56127 running under control of Ubuntu x64. The workaround for this issue is well documented: disable VT-x/AMD-v support. Fine, but… the option is greyed out in the settings:
To change it, [...]
Having too much systems to work on has one small disadvantage – there’s a hell of a lot of Administrator and root passwords to remember. And yesterday happend what was meant to happen for some time - I forgot an Administator password for one of my Windows 2003 Servers. For obvious security reasons (I had no [...]
I can’t tell how many logins I need to remember nowadays. And it could be so much simpler - I already have very flexible and worldwide unique login – my email address. Let’s just all agree and use it as a login? If you will design a website, please, please, please use email as user name. Thank [...]
I’ve been struggling for quite a time with setting up home audio system that can play my mp3 collection (about 8500 files) without need to turn my computer on. I failed to find reasonably priced audio system, so I bought LG 2.1 Home Theater system – HB354BS, which can play mp3 from usb drive. The [...]