A short post as a reminder, this is how to open iso dvd files on a Mac with OS X Leopard.
Open the Finder and navigate to the .iso file, double-click to mount it. Then go to Applications and open the DVD player.
Screws removed from my jaw
About 6 months ago I had a rather unpleasant accident and broke my jaw.
Last Thursday I had surgery to remove the metal plates that held my jaw together. I went in around 9AM, had a good sleep between 1PM and 3PM and went back home around 6PM … with the things that were inside my cheek in a small plastic back.
The doctor told me I was rather fortunate, I managed to crack … Read more.
WordPress reset
I finally managed to unlock my access to my WordPress blog. Since the last upgrade I always received the “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page error”
I installed a fresh WordPress (new empty database, new path). Once the setup was done I copied everything from the old database to the new database except for wp_user and wp_usermeta. After logging in as an administrator everything was working as before the error. I … Read more.
Ubuntu numeric keypad
After the upgrade to Ubuntu 9 I was unable to use the numeric keypad on my external keyboard that’s connected to my laptop. I’ve switched every possible option in the keyboard preferences on and off and found out that you have to disable the Pointer can be controlled using the keypad option. That’s under System, Preferences, Keyboard and Mouse Keys.
Snort 3.0 Beta 3 Released
An interesting post by Martin Roesch on the new architecture in the beta release of Snort.
Upgrading Ubuntu and no longer access to my encrypted home partition
I recently upgraded my laptop to the latest Ubuntu 8. The upgrade process was easy and quick however after the reboot I was unable to access my home-directory. I have a separate partition on which /home is mounted. This partition is encrypted with cryptsetup.
When I start the cryptdisk daemon it returns an error: /etc/init.d/cryptdisks start * Starting remaining cryptodisks… mount: special device /dev/mapper/cryptohome does not exist Enter passphrase: Checking the status with cryptdisk doesn’t … Read more.
Upgrading Ubuntu and no longer access to my encrypted home partition
I recently upgraded my laptop to the latest Ubuntu 8. The upgrade process was easy and quick however after the reboot I was unable to access my home-directory. I have a separate partition on which /home is mounted. This partition is encrypted with cryptsetup.
When I start the cryptdisk daemon it returns an error: /etc/init.d/cryptdisks start * Starting remaining cryptodisks… mount: special device /dev/mapper/cryptohome does not exist Enter passphrase: Checking the status with cryptdisk doesn’t … Read more.
Disable the DNS cache in Firefox
When Firefox misbehaves by caching old DNS requests then type
about:config
in the addressbar and change these settings
network.dnsCacheEntries 0 network.dnsCacheExpiration 0
Now restart your browser.
Working with screen under linux
Screen is a nice little nix-utility that allows you to leave a command running on a remote server even if you have disconnected.
The utility has a site at http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/.
Use is easy. Start screen with screen. You can exit an existing screen by tapping CTRL-A, d. Re-attaching to a screen is done with screen -r id. You can retrieve a list of ids by tapping screen -ls.
