Firebug is a useful Firefox extension to debug JavaScript and more. To not raise error messages on browsers without Firebug, there’s a small script called firebugx.js, which creates emptyfunctions. Sascha Hameister has optimized this script a little bit and it now looks like this: You might also want to use Firebug Lite.
To set your favorite LAF in all Java apps, you can create a file swing.properties in your jre/lib folder with following contents: You can also set the _JAVA_OPTIONS environment variable to the following (or just specify these parameters upon the java-call): From now on you will see NimbusLookAndFeel in all Java applications… Read More »
At work we have the Kerio Mailserver Appliance for VMware which is based on Fedora Core 6. Since they use the ugly yum, I decided to install apt-rpm. I’m still missing something like aptitude, but it is okay now. apt-rpm expects some *.list files in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory – as does the Ubuntu apt-get. Repositories… Read More »
To burn/print lightscribe media under Linux, you need two things: Installing 4L No drive detected If 4L-gui doesn’t detect any drive, try running it from a console window. If you see the following error message: The described library is missing (as with Karmic Koala). Either try finding it in aptitude or do the following: This… Read More »
The Configure button is definitely missing in gnome-screensaver. To customize the xscreensaver-modules, you can use xFX Screensaver Settings.
Firmware: sksapps.com (Latest is 0.41)
Install the guessnet package. This will install the guessnet-ifupdown helper tool. Now edit your /etc/network/interfaces file and add the following lines: This will first try to connect to the CompanyWLAN network and if this is not found, try the WLANatHOME. If everything fails, it will connect to any open Access Point.
incron allows you to run jobs when the filesystem changes. There is a nice tutorial at Linux.com.
To update the BIOS without Windows, install UNetBootIn and use it to put FreeDOS on a flash drive. Now extract the e.g. v.3305.zip to it and reboot the machine. Press F12 in the right moment and select your USB flash drive from the list. Press ENTER when you see the boot: prompt, then launch the… Read More »
Chipset: Atheros AR2425 Change Regdomain The WiFi card comes set to regdom 0x65 (World/ETSI C) which limits the channels to 1..11. (iw list shows channels 12..14 as disabled.) In Germany, there are also channels 12 and 13 which are unusable this way. But there’s the tool ath_info which can read and write the EEPROM on… Read More »