Author Archives: Urmas

Unfortunately it is not anymore possible through package management. Searching for openoffice in Synaptic Package Manager or apt-get, you will find openoffice but it will install libreoffice not openoffice. Only way, as I know currently, is install by hand. To … Continue reading →

abut week ago I got message from Google Adsense Team: While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our publisher network may … Continue reading →

If you are using latest (and greatest) vi/vim then it can open gzipped files (those with extension .gz) automagically, but it’s not so easy if you must use some old/outdated system where is also old vi/vim. So, what to do? … Continue reading →

Updated to KDE 4.6.2 on one computer and weird problem happened. When tried automount usb disk and open it with dolphin instead I got dialog to choose program to do it with. Strange. Later discovered, that right-click on file “Open … Continue reading →

Got an interesting problem few days ago. Just updated php (and apache and some other programs) and did “/etc/init.d/apache2 graceful” when suddenly got errors in wordpress blogs like this Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: unknown option bit(s) set at offset … Continue reading →

If you are looking answer for that, you will soon discover that there is no way to find out this from default GUI programs Run this in “cmd” : or shorter

By default, vi / vim searches are case sensitive. This mode can be toggled with next commands or shorter version And turn case insensitive mode off again

As last time I wrote “how to find config locations” in kernel menuconfig, there is one more important thing to know. Sometimes kernel options are hidden (and they are even not greppable) because of dependencies. For example, I tried to … Continue reading →

Recently something happened – when starting guest-os, I got error saying “No audio devices could be opened” : and in log was such data: After few weeks filled with recompiling and surfing I found this thread where I found hint … Continue reading →

You are (Gentoo) linux-user. You are building packages by yourself. How many times you have got message “X_Y_Z not enabled in kernel config”, like this (trying to emerge iotop): And sometimes it is pretty hard to find out, exactly where … Continue reading →