http://linxtrix.com Web and Linux development stuff... Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:50:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Or how to loose a few hours on trying to setup dual monitors with a on-board nvidia and PCI Matrox card. The problem on the end was that when the primary card (nvidia) was not set as the primary boot card, it was not setup right by the bios and hence ... http://linxtrix.com/2008/09/25/attempted-to-read-bios-128kb-got-0kb/ Ok, I don't like doing this, just posting videos... but THIS ROCKS! http://linxtrix.com/2008/07/28/ok-this-is-hilarious/ Okay I was developing a new website (which I won't reveal just yet), and I needed a way to generate user logins for people who are lazy. The thing is I know that if I want to make a good service I need to get past one thing, and that's creating ... http://linxtrix.com/2008/07/27/how-to-remember-ip-addresses-more-efficiently/ After reading a bunch of articles about Request Tracker, and other Issue Tracking Systems starting from here on wikipedia and and on slashdot . And before anything watching this amazing video: From which I got a hint that git could be the way, I found this post which basically confirmed my research ... http://linxtrix.com/2008/07/25/which-version-control-system-and-bugtracking-system-to-use/ There seems to be a bug in VMWare, at least in Linux when you switch back and forth between the Guest and Host sometimes the Alt key gets stuck in the Host, where in the guest the key is not stuck. This simple script solves the problem: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/xmodmap - << XXX clear ... http://linxtrix.com/2008/07/22/vmware-alt-key-gets-stuck/ Ok, the problem is simple, you are in China for example and you have a really bad connection from your hotel to your Windows Server or your home computer via a rdesktop connection. Luckily you have a proxy server somewhere (for example a squid), but rdesktop has NO settings for a ... http://linxtrix.com/2008/04/10/howto-remote-desktop-through-a-proxy/ This happens on Gentoo's vmware-workstation ebuild installation, like explained here and here the problem is you have dbus running, but not hal, simply add hal to your default startup: rc-update add hald default run it: /etc/init.d/hald start and retry the drill with vmware. http://linxtrix.com/2008/03/15/vmware-d-bus-not-built-with-rdynamic-so-unable-to-print-a-backtrace/ I somehow had the impression that it can't or that it does not, whatever. But not from my own beliefs, more from what I heard from other people, but I never bothered about that. Actually I never heard anyone claim that it can do just that, but for me it was ... http://linxtrix.com/2008/02/11/can-google-follow/ Playing MP4 Video Files In Windows MPEG-4 is quickly becoming one of the most important formats for video on the Internet. MPEG-4 files typically have the extension .MP4 and are created by a large number of software tools, digital cameras, and mobile phones. There are number of free programs that can be ... http://linxtrix.com/2008/02/07/mp4-player/ It's funny that things like this: Have a low View count. Even if someone things these guys are wackos, I guess they are better then these guys: But the thing is, the first has 91 views at the time of this writing, and was added Jan 7, the other has 53,xxx and ... http://linxtrix.com/2008/01/15/views/