Technical notes, my online memory

I like doing presentations with incremental reveal on my points, where one point comes up on the screen for each mouse click. Powerpoint ca...

If you don't have dictionaries installed OpenOffice will do a spellcheck and tell you there were no errors. Not exactly the best result...

The general HOWTO . Explanation of the built-in macros and how to configure with ~/.rpmmacros If you have a change to the original source y...

Vmware server and workstation are both currently broken on the kernel version in Hardy. You need to install a patch to get them to compile ...

Great article on how to detect VMWare, and how to prevent detection using undocumented VMX settings. Written by Ed Skoudis and Tom Liston ...

Argh! The option to prevent Audio CDs from being played automatically has been removed from System | Preferences | Removable Drives and Med...

My intel sound card didn't work out of the box with Hardy. I followed these instructions to compile and install the driver, and all wa...