Taking a screenshot of a menu under GNOME
Probably, you have noticed that I rarely include images in my posts. There are times though that a screenshot is required in order to avoid lengthy descriptions. A picture is like one thousand words…
Tab Links extension for the Epiphany browser
If your web browser of choice is Epiphany and you always wanted to copy all of the open tabs’ links to the clipboard in various formats with one click of the mouse, then this plugin might be what you were looking for…
Error when using old run/bin installers under Linux
I guess that every single *nix user, at least once, has run across files with the *.run or *.bin extensions. These scripts are usually software installers and are widely used to distribute, but not limited to, proprietary software to the Unix world. Examples are the popular NVidia or ATI display drivers for Linux and other…
Creative Commons v3.0 Licenses Launched
Version 3.0 of the Creative Commons Licenses has been launched. The license code can be generated at the Creative Commons website. The Creative-Commons-Configurator plugin for WordPress has been updated this morning. All content, which is hosted on G-Loaded!, unless otherwise stated, has been re-licensed and is now available under the terms of a Creative Commons…
.htaccess Cheat Sheet
Apache is a very flexible web server implementation. The .htaccess files give the webmasters the ability to override the default server configuration on a per-directory basis, provided that httpd‘s configuration pernits the overrides of the htaccess file. I am aware that there are thousands of cheat sheets (aka ready-made recipes) out there, mostly implementing mod_rewrite…
chroot Environment Howto
The Slack World, a Slackware related online magazine has published a very good write-up about how to create a chroot environment. Tom Newsom writes in his article: In this document I shall be showing you how you can run, for testing purposes perhaps, two versions of Slackware simultaneously. Both will be fully fledged installs and…
Application Testing: Zero Free Space
I should clarify from the beginning that this is not a technical article containing any kind of debugging information – I don’t have the knowledge anyway – or any other type of proof that indicates that some commonly used applications have bugs. This is just about some observations, or better an unofficial user report, of…
Lock out a user after N failed login attempts
The Red Hat Magazine included an excellent tip about how to lock out a user, if it fails to supply a valid password for a pre-defined number of login attempts. This is implemented by making use of the The PAM module pam_tally. This practice serves as a barrier for those, either human or bots, who…
QEMU Accelerator Module under GPLv2
I had missed it, but I am glad that it happened. The QEMU Accelerator kernel module, from version 1.3.0pre10, is being released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2.
Server upgraded to Fedora 6
A long time has passed since Fedora 6 was released, many of the initial bugs have been fixed, so I decided to perform an upgrade of the installation on the server that powers this web site. Everything has gone well, despite the fact that a few strange things happened during the upgrade.