Namespace Declarations With cElementTree
If you use cElementTree and try to create an XML file that uses some extra XML namespaces, you will encounter a wierd situation when the final file is written.
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A Note About The Epiphany Extensions on Fedora
This is just a quick note for Fedora users who use Epiphany as their main web browser. As you have probably noticed, there is an epiphany-extensions package in Fedora-Extras. These extensions add some more functionality to Epiphany. If I recall correctly, this package does not contain all of the extensions that are available for this…
Troubleshooting with strace
Another great write-up by Ravi, in which he explains the usage of strace by resolving a common issue with Totem not being able to play encrypted DVDs. Ravi writes in his article: Many times I have come across seemingly hopeless situations where a program when compiled and installed in GNU/Linux just fails to run. In…
Modifying Your Name In The WordPress Comments
This info applies for the registered users in WordPress. WordPress includes an option in the user management panel, with which an author can define what name is displayed when publishing posts or writing comments on the blog. Although changing the displayed name has an immediate effect on the posts, the displayed author’s name for the…
TV Grabbing On A Pentium 3
Lately, I have been revising a script I use for video grabbing from a bt878-based TV tuner card. What such a task requires is real CPU horsepower, but my desktop PC can only offer an old Pentium III 700MHz running at 933MHz. I decided to squeeze all the performance out of this overclocked processor in…
Linux Tips – Pack I
This is the introductory post of a series of postings, which will contain various tips about Linux. All these tips have been collected through the years from various sources on the internet and were kept in numerous text files in my home directory. Others are my own “discoveries”. Recently, I moved them to Tomboy, but…
Track ’em Down!
I’ve been checking the web server logs lately seeking for a way to track down the remote hosts that regularly submit, or try to submit, spam comments massively. Grep-ing the logs is no fun at all, so I wrote a small BASH script to do the dirty work for me. Well, this one was written…
A temp solution for the is_preview WP issue
In my previous post I wrote about a problem I had with some javascript code that is placed inside the <head> HTML tags of my header.php file. There was a conflict between this small piece of code and the live preview feature of the WP editor, so no editing was possible at all for my…
Build a single native kernel module
I was wondering how it would be possible to build a native kernel module, which is not enabled in the kernel configuration, and use it in order to add support for a certain feature to the system. This idea came to me while I was examining the kernel-module-ntfs SRPM package from the Livna repository. This…
The use of the uppercase X in chmod
I am aware that there are numerous guides about file permissions in linux out there. This post is not intended to be another tutorial. I just wanted to emphasize the use of uppercase X when modifying regular file or directory permissions. This info seems to be missing from most of those guides.