http://evilhomestereo.net/wp what good curse can you throw? Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:02:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I always thought with my OpenVPN server running on port 443 I can bypass any proxy or firewall allowing me to connect to HTTPS sites. Well, it seems like at this place there is some transparent proxy in place which actually inspects the TLS/SSL handshake and OpenVPN doesn't exactly behave ... http://evilhomestereo.net/wp/2008/10/15/i-stand-corrected/ Judging from Google it seems like this is quite a common annoyance but nobody really knows how to get around it: If you use KDM as your login manager and temporarily login with a different X session than your default one, KDM will remember this and the next login will ... http://evilhomestereo.net/wp/2008/06/08/default-x-session-please/ I guess this is old news to most people, but I'm still excited: The combination of LVM and ext3 makes it possible to resize a partition while it is still mounted. The short story: root@TreeHouse:~# lvextend -L+1G /dev/hd/kubuntu Extending logical volume kubuntu to 6.00 GB Logical volume kubuntu successfully resized root@TreeHouse:~# resize2fs /dev/hd/kubuntu resize2fs 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008) Filesystem ... http://evilhomestereo.net/wp/2008/06/06/lvm-ext3-rocks/ Nice. Times Online reports: Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that [...] has already been installed in two shopping centres, including Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth [...]. There's no reason to worry of course: Path Intelligence, the Portsmouth-based company which developed the technology, said ... http://evilhomestereo.net/wp/2008/05/19/better-switch-off-your-phone-when-shopping/ How do you know that Linux becomes mainstream-ready? If stuff happens magically and you don't know where to start debugging of course. Seriously: I always had some issues accessing my digicam (an Olympus SP-700) from KDE (actually, Kubuntu): The system always first tried to access it via some magic camera device ... http://evilhomestereo.net/wp/2008/05/17/a-little-too-much-magic/ I really like Debian. Or (K)Ubuntu which I actually use. And of course apt/dpkg. Great stuff. Almost as good as Portage, with the unbeatable advantage that you don't have to compile all that stuff on your own :) But can somebody please explain something to me? Why does a little update in ... http://evilhomestereo.net/wp/2008/02/12/update-madness-this-is-debian/ I was just musing if Adobe might soon face the same problem Xerox and Kleenex had: "I photoshop my cat pictures with Gimp!" when I stumbled upon this post at soup.io. Coincidence. I guess the same might happen to the brand iPod. If I worked at a department store and ... http://evilhomestereo.net/wp/2008/01/31/to-photoshop/ While I wrote the previous post and did some googling I noticed that the ARD also has one of those pesky URL-redirectors. It is here. Try to attach any URL to the parameter called url, like this one. What's the problem with redirectors on your website which allow people to ... http://evilhomestereo.net/wp/2008/01/29/how-to-secure-your-url-redirector/ I took a mental note to write something on the topic ARD vs. BBC and Open Source and openness in general some time ago but never got around to actually do so. Until now. Why now? Because of BBC's attendance at linux.conf.au. Why in English? Well, on the one hand ... http://evilhomestereo.net/wp/2008/01/29/dear-ard-please-take-a-leaf-out-of-bbcs-book/ There's a relatively new KDE mailinglist called scm-interest. They are discussing about a potential new (distributed) SCM system for KDE (well, duh, thats what the name says). Should be interesting to follow these people as any software which can manage KDE's massive codebase (they tend to convert everything back to ... http://evilhomestereo.net/wp/2008/01/27/kde-scm-interest-now-on-gmane/