Today, I stumbled upon the following links, which seem to be what could get someone started with LaTeX. Andrew Roberts has done an exceptional job. His tutorials cover topics both for the absolute beginner and the medium experienced user. This is a must read! Actually, I found out about the above tutorials by this post,…
In some of my older articles, at least where an SSH tunnel is involved, I keep mentioning a specific way of initializing such an encrypted tunnel, which results in the automatic closure of the tunnel after the job on the remote server is finished. Since this is my method of choice, I decided to provide…
As it is known, beagle does not work out-of-the-box in FC6 due to a small bug, which causes the beagle daemon to hang just a few seconds after it is started. So, no desktop-searching is possible at this time, at least until this problem gets fixed. Fortunately, a patched build (0.2.10-7.fc6) has been pushed in…
One of the Linux command line tools I had initially under-estimated is netcat or just nc. By default, netcat creates a TCP socket either in listening mode (server socket) or a socket that is used in order to connect to a server (client mode). Actually, netcat does not care whether the socket is meant to…
It seems that there is a problem compiling the Linux version of Truecrypt v4.2a on the 2.6.18 series of kernels. A patch has been posted in the Truecrypt forums (you need to be logged-in to read), but, although this patch resolves the compilation error, there have been reports that the program has problems unmounting the…
The 6th version of Fedora Core was released a week ago. The huge demand had caused the fedora servers and mirrors to “melt” in the first days of the release. The Fedora Project pages, even the latest release notes, were unavailable, while all requests were redirected to a very plain front page which explained the…
Recently, much to my surprise, I found out that some critical data I had burned on DVD could not be read back from the medium. A more thorough examination showed that many of the files on the DVD had different filesizes than the ones on the hard disk. This is when I started to seriously…
Well, it took me several months, but, finally, I found out how to turn off those animations when minimizing windows in the GNOME desktop. I intended to set Metacity as the window manager in a VNC session to see if it’s usable and accidentally, while checking its options in the configuration editor on my current…
As you may have noticed, I’ve changed my web site’s domain recently. Therefore, I had to redirect all requests to the new address. This has been done and it works as expected, but how about taking a closer look at the HTTP responses the web server returns to the client if an old URL is…
I was aware that a non-encrypted VNC session could be recorded and then reproduced, but I had never searched for utilities that could do that job. The recorded sessions can be perfectly used to show others how to accomplish a task and, generally, can serve as excellent training videos. There is a very good HOWTO…