How to make an Apple?
Thursday, December 30th, 2010...on the keyboard of a MacBook Pro? Simply press Alt + Shift + 8 and you'll get a... Happy New Year!
Archive for the ‘Various’ Category
...on the keyboard of a MacBook Pro? Simply press Alt + Shift + 8 and you'll get a... Happy New Year!
Screenshotting in Mac
Thursday, September 30th, 2010Found out very nice shortcut thanks to friend of mine who knows Mac since longer time than me (at least the modern ones). Press Shift+Command+4 to get a selection of the screen to be saved on desktop in PNG format instead of Screen Capture utility saving in TIFF. Add Space Bar to ...
Odd characters while copying from SMB mounted drive to local Linux folder
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010Since this happened with filenames with euro sign or accented characters or dollar signs, the solution is to specify the mount options as follows: smbmount -o iocharset=utf8 //servername/folder /mnt/localmountpoint
Bluetooth and headless Linux
Sunday, January 11th, 2009Ever wondered how to connect your linux box via bluetooth, for instance to allow file transfer with your phone? I found some cool and working hints on the Net, reporting here below what worked for me. Connect your USB dongle Install what ...
Portable Cygwin Apps
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Very cool idea to make Cygwin environment portable! Link is at http://symbiosoft.net/?q=cygwinportable The power of Linux in Windows.... available in your USB stick!
Channels on WiFi
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008I just learnt something cool to finetune a WiFi net and before I forget, it's better to take note as usual. It has to do with channels and frequencies and issue at home was that my WiFi was not performing as I was expecting. It was configured to run on channel 8, ...
How to resize a filesystem to match size of a partition.
Saturday, March 29th, 2008One of the things I like of Linux is that despite I'm working with it since 1994 I never end learning part of it. Today my need was the following: I dd a 20 Gb backup onto a 40 Gb HDD and it worked smoothly, but problem is that filesystem on ...
Nice signature!
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Surfing the 'Net I found a cool signature to insert in mail, etc. echo niugnePniraoR | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "" } { for (i = NF; i >= 1; i-- ) printf $i }'; echo Do you ...
