Save energy on your linux machine

Wednesday 03. of February 2010

The latest 2.6.21 kernel allows a feature called tickless that saves energy by not having the fixed 1000hz timer tick. The application also saves energy by giving suggestions on-screen and lists down the top causes of wakeups.

To install simply use synaptic or type in the terminal 'sudo apt-get ins...

Non-working holidays

Monday 28. of December 2009

Hi,

 

Please note that freelance work stops throughout the holiday season up until New Year's. Work should resume by January 4th 2010.

 

Best regards,

Elijah

 

Typo3 new version 4.3 released

Thursday 10. of December 2009

"BAAR, 2009-11-30 Today the TYPO3 Association released the newest version of their outstandingly successful Open Source project TYPO3. TYPO3 has been downloaded over 4.1 million times - making it one of the world's leading Enterprise Open Source projects. The latest TYPO3 version 4.3 comes packed wi...

Pidgin Yahoo! login fix

Thursday 25. of June 2009

There had been some issues on the login for the yahoo messenger on pidgin. The authentication issues were caused by Yahoo!'s changes to their servers:

 

From: theflamingbanker.blogspot.com/2009/06/some-clarification-on-yahoo-issues.html

 

The specific problem that affected us is the authe...

Panasonic Lumix LX3

Tuesday 05. of May 2009

Sometimes working at home can get boring and makes you want to just go outside and take a walk. This year I've taken up amateur photography as a quick hobby to take off the monotony of sitting down all day at home. I bought a Panasonic Lumix LX3 .

Now, why not a DSLR? I've been browsing around phot...

How to reveal your saved passwords in Firefox

Monday 02. of February 2009

There are times that we forget our passwords and sometimes those asterisks made by firefox were the wrong ones for some reason. Here is a way to get around the problem:

 

blog.gadgetlite.com/2008/07/31/reveal-asterisk-%E2%80%99s-password/

 

Of course, the in-built option is to open up Edi...

Cheaper alternative to Photoshop CS*

Monday 15. of December 2008

I prefer GIMP (free) but most of the time my clients are sending out PSD's that came from a CS3. Opening it using third-party programs doesn't really work out. Gimp and even paint shop pro messes up the layers & sometimes the colors.

The solution : Photoshop Elements 7 with Elements+

 

Why Elemen...

Batch export PSD layers without using Photoshop

Tuesday 14. of October 2008

I have no photoshop (I use gimp). But I needed a solution to get all images from a layer - I already tried Gimp and PaintshopPro but the way it displays the layers are not accurate and the texts are somehow transformed to images and so it is not possible to edit/view the text. Sometimes I may requir...

Ubuntu - where is dos2unix?

Monday 26. of May 2008

Just right now I found no dos2unix commands in my installation and it seems to be non-existent in the repository. But thankfully in the forums someone pointed it to me at sysutils , and it was. I'm a happy penguin now. $sudo apt-get install sysutils

Motorola v6 as modem in Ubuntu linux

Tuesday 25. of March 2008

The reason I bought a v6 maxx is to take advantage of it's 3g and hsdpa(sp?) capability. Since a pldt weroam can get expensive and data transfer speeds are not as fast as a dedicated connection. First of all: get a data cable. I won't discuss here how to get it done via bluetooth since i...