Archives for the ‘tips & tricks’ Category

Thomson SpeedTouch 780WL – port forwarding to broadcast address

For your home network to be able to wake-on-lan a computer from the Internet so that you could later remotely access it, you need to forward a port to your broadcast address. This way you can broadcast a magic packet to all the computers in your network and then wake only one of them using [...]

Using irssi as proxy for pidgin

If you would like to use irssi on a remote server so that it works as proxy for pidgin, you should already have ‘server’ and ‘network’ parameters set up in your ~/.irssi/config . If you don’t know what I’m talking about, take a look here and also examine the config file. You should figure it [...]

Locking a session after suspending to disk in Ion3

Ok, so I wanted to lock my session after suspending to disk while using Ion3 WM. There are a few solutions to this but what I’ve found works best for me is using vlock. What you should do to make this work is the following (after you have installed vlock): Edit your .xinitrc and add [...]

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Navigation missing in apricot wordpress theme fix

One thing that I don’t know why it isn’t implemented to apricot wordpress theme is the navigation to newer and older entries at the bottom of the page. So, for all of you out there who don’t know how to fix it or are just lazy enough to figure it on your own, do the [...]

Installing Backtrack3 to hard drive

Here I’ll explain how to install BackTrack3 to your hard drive, using GRUB, and keep the bootsplash since I didn’t find the proper How-to for this… I will assume you already use linux and have some distribution installed on your computer. Please read everything first, and then continue with your installation. First of all, download [...]