Linux
Running the BitNami LAMP stack with the system MySQL
6 October, 2009 - 09:36 — adminThe excellent BitNami LAMP stack contains its own MySQL, which is started automatically and used by PHP.
NVidia Suspend HOWTO
28 December, 2008 - 10:36 — gunnarTop Ten Mac OS X Tips for Linux Geeks
16 September, 2008 - 16:45 — gunnarActually called "Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks".
Cherry Linux keyboard and Java
13 May, 2008 - 19:04 — gunnarSince I couldn't get the KeyMan utility that came with my Cherry keyboard to work with SuSE 10.3 I had problems getting the Cut, Copy and Paste keys to work.
Editing crontab for QNAP, and making it stick
3 May, 2008 - 18:50 — gunnarIf you have a QNAP you may want to run some scripts regularly. Editing the crontab seems to work but your changes don't survive a reboot. There is however a fairly simple solution:
Subpixel hinting in SuSE 10.3
9 February, 2008 - 12:00 — gunnarFixed DPI with NVIDIA driver on Linux
13 January, 2008 - 19:36 — gunnarHow do I tell the NVIDIA driver to use a fixed DPI that does not depend on my screen size?
Add the following to the Device section in your xorg.conf:
Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
Option "DPI" "75 x 75"
Substitute the DPI you want for 75 above.
Mailing files from Konqueror
22 May, 2007 - 15:16 — gunnarI want to right click on one or more files in Konqueror and create a new mail with the files as attachments. Is this possible?
Yes, by creating a service menu entry.
In the directory .kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus, relative to your home directory, create a file called sendto.desktop with the following contents:
Using KMail from Firefox
17 May, 2007 - 13:30 — gunnarHow do I get Firefox to open mailto-links with KMail and use KMail from Tools/New Message?
For some reason this IMO important configuration setting hasn't made it into the Preferences dialog but it is available:
- Open the "about:config" page.
- Type "mailto" in the filter field.
