2018/01/03

Create a tunnel-only connection to a SSH server using graphical Putty on windows

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Sometimes you don't need a shell on a server, but you need to connect to a service that is not exposed on the internet for a different n...
2015/10/13

When you update the broadcom-wl drivers on Mageia5

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...and the network goes down upon the installation of the brand new kernel module. Don't Panic! It's super-easy to recover, unle...
2013/08/06

Font problems with nonbeta NX server

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As you now I'm just completing the migration to Mageia3 on all my client machines. One issue I met is the absence of freenx server in ...
2013/02/08

The Gnomification of Firefox

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After the small post about Gnome3 as a working environment , I stumbled in a French article about regaining screen estate in Firefox. The a...
2013/01/14

Gnome 3 as a work desktop

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I recently acquired a new notebook from my new employer and I choose of course to install Mageia 2 with a Gnome 3 desktop. Beside installi...
2012/06/06

Mageia 2 on Macbook Pro: how to enable brightness keys with nvidia driver

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Here's how to make brightness keys (eg. F1 and F2) to work on Mageia 2 on Gnome 3. Add this line to the Device section of the xorg.co...
2012/05/26

Mageia 2

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It's out. It's amazing. It works on the macbook pro. Enough said. Go update or install NOW!.
2012/05/21

Mandriva and Mageia, Am I not a farseer?

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Note this blog post of mine (and the date) and this announcement from Mageia . No more left to say.
2012/05/15

Fixin a form PDF saved with Mac OSX Preview

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Working with tax forms, this year I found the form as an editable PDF. Unfortunately I had the bad idea of editing e saving it with preview...
2012/03/21

Mageia 2

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Mageia 2 Beta2 is out . The main new features from Mageia 1 are: Kernel 3 Systemd KDE 4.8 GNOME 3 (currently 3.3, 3.4 is planned for ...
2011/02/09

Fixing click to focus problem on Gimp-X11 on MacOS X

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If you try to use gimp on MacOS X, you'll find that all the clicks in the tool window needs to be repeated twice, once to select the win...
2010/11/19

Fix MSN certificate problem with Pidgin

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To make a long story shot, grab the certificate ( here ) and install under Pidgin. Screenshots here . Update : Of course the update to Pi...
2010/10/15

Come utilizzare Time Machine su share Samba (non supportato)

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Eccomi con la versione italiana del mini-howto. È probabile che aggiunga degli screenshot non appena rimetto le mani sul MacBookPro. Ieri ...
2010/10/14

Using (unsupported) SMB shares for Time Machine

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Yesterday, after setting up my Samba NAS based on a dual-Atom MSI Wind Box, I fought against Time Machine, which refuses to use a shared fol...
2010/09/21

About Mandriva

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This post is about my own opinion on the whole Mandriva issue. (for the Italian version, keep scrolling) The Fork I think that putting u...
2010/09/20

File versioning

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I wrote a small script to do file-level backup/versioning of a single file or group of files as a whole, without resorting to anything beyon...