For those of you with a PC or even a Mac that runs on Windows or Linux, you are in luck as you will be able to add a simple IR circuit that will allow you to remotely control your computer via a remote control!
Now, the greatest part about this project is that the IR program is provided free of charge via WinLIRC (for Windows) or LIRC (for Linux).
This could be a great simple hack for your new media PC TV if you don’t have any kind of IR remote control capability yet.
LIRC is
I recently installed Google Chrome browser on my Ubuntu Linux. Well, everytime I tried to access GMail, I’d get the following error:
“The server security certificate is revoked!”
This error happens to be a time error because my Ubuntu Live USB flash disk defaults to UTC.
To fix, just do:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdataand fix your time zone (and time).
Remember I told you about a cool free software called UNetbootin that lets you make bootable USB flash drives for your linux operating systems?
Well, I ran into one problem, I could only make live CD versions of linux, but not able to use it as a hard drive in “persistent mode”.
You can use Ubuntu’s USB-imagewriter to make a persistent bootable USB flash drive except you will need Ubuntu installed to use the program to begin with.
For those of you who are running Windows, you can get this awesome free program called
As a person who manages about 10 web servers on a daily basis (yes, that’s the overworked poor me), SSH/SCP has been invaluable in having me get things done faster while keeping things secure.
For those of you who don’t know, SSH is basically a secure shell for linux systems (my web servers run linux) so you can connect to it remotely and get things done. Of course, you will need a dedicated server of some sort because most shared web hosting companies don’t allow for SSH connections. (or VPS would work too
For the last couple months, I have been playing around with a lot of different web servers. Because my web servers kept going down, I had to find a new solution to help minimize my on-growing web server hosting costs.
About 2 years ago, one of the tech support guys at the dedicated server hosting company told me there’s a lighter web server called “Lighttpd”.
Well, I digged all the information I could on Lighttpd and found pieces of information that could let me run Zedomax.com on Lighttpd. (I also did find many other good web server alternatives like Ngi
GNOME is a popular GUI choice for linux users, here’s a bunch of free linux GNOME wallpapers you can download.
Of course, you don’t need to use to download these, you can also simply use FTP to download to your Mac/Windows computer too.
First you need to create a directory in your home directory, lets call it Wallpapers mkdir ~/Wallpapers
Now you need to connect to gnome.org ftp servers ftp ftp.gnome.org Next you will be asked to enter a userna
For those of you who need to “resume” SCP file transfers that have been interrupted, there’s an easy way to resume them using rsync command.
Use this:
alias scpresume="rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh"For Ubuntu or Debian add sudo:
alias scpresume="sudo rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh"This is great since you won’t have to restart your file transfers if you happened to be transferring files around 100GB.
Perks include understanding the same user@host:path syntax as scp as well as being able to resume a broken scp download (Note:
