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Make your #Ubuntu #Gnome 15.10 desktop cocky again! #conky

Conky is an exceptional system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop. If you haven’t met conky until now, do so here. In this tutorial you will install the latest conky manager (2.4 at the time of writing) and some other tools, usually being used by conky themes and widgets. […]

Vagrant repackaging box from existing one #vagrant 1

Vagrant repackaging box from existing one #vagrant

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Vagrant

Vagrant repackaging is a hacky way to create a new vagrant box from an existing one, which is already configured and well tested. In this article, scope is not to explain the benefits of using virtualization in your development workflows. As well, I’m assuming that you: already have the latest vagrant installed, hostupdater plugin and […]

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prefix console.log without affecting the line number #Javascript

Prefixing the console.log while keeping its ability to inform you about the code line wherefrom it was called is little hacky but useful to use in your own javascript applications. I was scratching my head while I was coding in one of my projects, I was up to a point that I needed a more […]

RoundCube Password Plugin for virtualmin 2

RoundCube Password Plugin for virtualmin

Roundcube password plugin for Virutalmin hosting panel is a great feature for your users, if you don’t want them to use Usermin as mail client, and be able to change their password. After long time I decided to research and solve the problem for Roundcube password plugin. At the end of the article you will […]

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Setup central syslog server on raspberry pi 2 (and other debian based distros)

Central log server using rsyslog is an asset of your sysadmin life! It may get you on the surface on really critical failures when you manage xyz number of servers and some of them go down. In my case raspberry pi 2 with rasbian (debian wheezy for arm processors) does the job very well, without […]

How to install emmet on Sublime Text 2 via Package Control 3

How to install emmet on Sublime Text 2 via Package Control

Emmet and sublime text 2 (or 3, 3 is Alpha version yet) might be one of the best combos to boost your work flow when writing an application. Sublime text is my favourite editor since I broke up with geany. :P Sublime text 2 We all know sublime text 2 editor, right? It’s a cross […]

Essential firefox addons for netizens 4

Essential firefox addons for netizens

adblock-edge Adblock Edge is a fork of the Adblock Plus version 2.1.2 extension for blocking advertisements on the web. This fork will provide the same features as Adblock Plus 2.X and higher but without “acceptable ads” feature. Adblock Edge was primarily branched off from Adblock Plus 2.1.2 source code package “http://adblockplus.org/downloads/adblockplus-2.1.2-source.tgz” created by Wladimir Palant. […]

How to install Gajim IM 0.16-rc2 on Ubuntu 14.04 22

How to install Gajim IM 0.16-rc2 on Ubuntu 14.04

Gajim is one of the best IM clients you can find around the web. “Best” doesn’t always come along with multi protocol support or something like that. It’s about a neat xmpp/Jabber client which does support all main xmpp extensions/features and some of most important interface features an IM client should have. Gajim 0.16-rc2, is […]

[MediaWiki] Simple Private Wiki Permissions 23

[MediaWiki] Simple Private Wiki Permissions

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Quick and Dirty MediaWiki Tips

Another wiki tip I needed often back in time was, “how to create a simple private wiki for me and/or my work colleagues?”. Well, wikis are used by so many geeks to reduce productivity or as a stress relief tool for backing up their notes or their precious geek-work. When I needed a wiki for […]

MediaWiki over ssl encryption 24

MediaWiki over ssl encryption

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Quick and Dirty MediaWiki Tips

Mediawiki is the best known wiki software. It’s the same software wikipedia relies on. Allows us to gather and store information in a semantic way, it is also usefull for  mind mapping.  Mediawiki has some simple but cool features such as heading based article formating, URI redirect, automatic outline numbering based on headings, dynamic content […]