Internal Server Error caused by a full disk
You might experience internal server errors from time to time. Internal Server Error You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The [...]
View ArticleSMBus base address unitialized
When your system or your virtualization software (such as VirtualBox) doesn’t provide the System Management Bus (SMBus) which is a derivate of the I2C communication protocol, then your kernel will [...]
View ArticleMigrate from a physical system to a virtual machine (VM)
This article shows you step by step how to virtualize an existing Linux partition. Here a physical system installed on a USB stick is converted to a virtual machine. Create the [...]
View ArticleLightbox2: Limit the max image size
Lightbox2 is a JavaScript technique used to display a high resolution image in a modal dialog while the rest of the website is darkened. Unfortunately the original code of Lightbox2 shows [...]
View ArticleDisplay PHP code in a html code section
How do I display PHP code in HTML? you may ask yourself. Briefly, you cannot print a string with php code directly to a html code block as shown here: $php_string = [...]
View ArticleExtremely high disk activity with Windows 8 and how to fix it?
This article is showing the problem which many users encounter. The problem could be simply called Windows but what operating system is best is out of this article’s scope. The problem The [...]
View Articlesshfs: Transport endpoint is not connected
The article Work locally on a remote project with any editor in combination with SSHFS explains how to use SSHFS to mount a remote file system on your local system. Unfortunately [...]
View ArticleWork locally on a remote project with any editor in combination with SSHFS
How often does it happen that you need to edit files remotely while your favourite editor is not capable to do so? My favourite editor is Komodo Edit, the free edition [...]
View ArticleThe syn2cat hackerspace needs more space
The syn2cat hackerspace – a location in Luxembourg where geeks meet – is a container building made out of two containers which offers space to two associations. Each association has [...]
View ArticleVirtualBox: Make your virtual machine accessible from your host system but...
With VirtualBox, a virtualization software package developed by Sun Microsystems, you run an operating system simultanously with the system that you have booted from. The operating system installed...
View ArticleColorize the arrow in Inkscape
Since years there’s a bug in Inkscape where – after drawing lines – stroke markers always stay black, even if the color of the strokes are changed. It’s funny to see [...]
View ArticleIssues that happen when you change the hostname and reverse DNS (Part 1)
Sometimes it’s necessary to change the hostname or the reverse DNS of a server. When altering these settings without some care this will result in some issues. This article shows [...]
View ArticleGit: why submodules are evil
Submodules look cool but in reality they’re hot as hell. This article briefly shows why people want to use submodules and in the section after why they shouldn’t use them. Motivation When [...]
View ArticleIssues that happen when you change the hostname and reverse DNS (Part 2)
In the first part of this blog post series I discussed the effect that can happen when forgetting to edit a Postfix configuration after changing the hostname and reverse DNS. In [...]
View ArticleHandling ranges with switch in PHP
Conditional code exection is one of the most important features in programming languages. Therefore most, not to say all, languages provide the if construct. If there are many conditions you [...]
View ArticlePressing enter a hundred times
One way to virtually press the enter key a hundred times is the command yes … NAME yes - output a string repeatedly until killed SYNOPSIS [...]
View ArticleHow to word-wrap long text in HTML?
In HTML a very long text is not automatically wrapped. Especially if there are no spaces in your string your browser doesn’t necessarily know where it should break the line. [...]
View ArticleUpdate your jQuery UI theme
Whenever you need to add a date picker to a form control or other user interface actions, effects or widgets, jQuery UI is what you are looking for. With the download [...]
View ArticleZend: Enable autocompletion for your view helpers in your IDE
When working with the Zend framework you might wonder why the view helpers are not getting autocompleted when hitting the ctrl and space keys in your favourite IDE. The problem Let’s assume [...]
View ArticleMount complains a wrong fs type, bad option, or a bad superblock
If the disk space reaches a minimum, on a Linux or Unix system you would simply create a new partition of yet unallocated space. The filesystem table /etc/fstab would get [...]
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