Tag: linux
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New location and new look
It’s been a while in the works but I’ve finally changed some things around here. First of all, this blog has been moved to entirely new site. It is no longer in a co-location hosting centre but instead now lives on its own small server in my home. I’ve added an SSL certificate for encryption…
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Installing the VMWare View client on openSUSE 13.1
If, like me, you like to use the openSUSE Linux distribution, both personally and professionally and you need to connect to a VMWare View environment, you’ll be unpleasantly surprised: there’s no supported client for openSUSE or other RPM based distributions. There is however, an Ubuntu package..
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PDF file print protected?
Having a PDF file that is print protected is annoying. If you run into this nonsense and you happen to use Linux, the following command will save you, provided you have Ghostscript installed. Note though, that this command can not strip the password out of documents that are password protected against opening!
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SSH tunneling error
When trying to set up a SSH tunnel through a remote host in order to bypass a pesky firewall, I received an error which I did not immediately understand.
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Applying a patch to wine to solve wine bug #8826
Wine bug #8826 is about not having visible fire and smoke in the game Silent Hunter 3 until zoomed out really far. Not seeing the smoke and fires can be a bit strange, especially if you can hear the fire blazing, but nothing is visible. This post will attempt to explain how to apply a…
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Migrating spamassassin from db files to MySQL
In this post, we’ll take a look at how to migrate spamassassin from the default db files to a MySQL database. The assumption is that you have a working mail server that already does spam scanning and where spamassassin stores its information in the default db files. In order to improve speed, especially for auto-expiry…