Something new learned today: http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2004/02/css-ie-only Example - include an IE specific stylesheet (to correct for IE's CSS border model) without hacking the stylesheet to…

Just a note to self - to generate a new certificate

Update to WP 1.5.1.2 seems to have fixed the RSS feeds

For some reason the munin packages in debian sarge don't seem to include the spamstats plugin. I fetched the latest spamstats.in file from CVS - this is not ready to run as it needs to be processed by…

The dnslookup section of the exim4 config contains To allow one specific subnet thru change it: Here it allows the 192.168.3.x network.

Running xfce4 - and have no gnome control panel - but I needed to change the default browser. will tell you what is set - in my case "epiphany %s" I tend to use opera - so did the trick

Full details on http://myrddin.org/howto/debian-grub.php If you have LILO on the MBR then the grub-install device is the disk e.g. /dev/hda - not the root partition.

Sarge installation. Apache is 1.3.x (packaged). JBoss is 3.2.7 with tomcat. Aim: ajp13 working For each (or at least several) virtual host under apache we have an equivalent webapp running under jboss…

This machine is a debian sarge install (2.6 kernel). During installation - it was set up with root as ext3, some swap - and the rest of the disk as an lvm area. All partitions within this area are xfs…

Setting up subversion with svn+ssh access (non-DAV) on unstable. In migrating from woody with a combination of CVS and a backport of SVN 1.0 I would like to use SVN 1.1 to get the file system backend…

Have been running sendmail for a long time on woody. However - with the upgrade to sarge I've been taking a look at exim's configuration - since the sendmail config is a nightmare :) Status so far…

From this blog information on getting mplayer to play .3gp files: In /etc/mplayer/codecs - find the section for the videocodec ffh263 (just search for it) and add: format 0x33363273

Simple working example Rounded corners in CSS :: Adam Kalsey

Sitting up on Sun's site - an article that every programmer who has written should read What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

On machine 1 Note - the "*" is important - otherwise you don't get the required purge lines On machine 2

When using XP SP2 you need to make sure that the bluetooth dongle (this is talking about a F8T003 v2) is using Belkin's driver and not the standard one from Microsoft. The following document at Belkin…

Debian linux running a 2.6 kernel To disable IPv6 you need both the following lines in your /etc/modprobe.conf file Thanks to the guys on the #debian freenode channel for help with this. Update Moved…

Want to get rid of lots of annoying adverts? Modify your hosts file - here's the link: Mike's Ad Blocking Hosts File

When using xdm instead of gdm/kdm it's useful to have buttons to allow for shutdown/restart. This is possible using Tcl/Tk and some config tweaks. Most of the info needed is here: XDM shutdown buttons

Running a dial-up over bluetooth to a S700i. Most of this is cargo-culted from the pages listed on http://www.holtmann.org/linux/kernel/ (page no longer available) - with most of it coming from here…