If you’re using Textual with ZNC, you’ll notice that even with general event messages turned off, your own joins are still being displayed, most notably when you start Textual and connect to your ZNC. The reason for that is that ZNC sends JOIN events to your client for all channels you are in – otherwise…
Continue reading →Suppose you’re staff in a support channel which isn’t very frequented by other users, and you want Textual to make a sound and show a notification (i.e. trigger a highlight) whenever someone joins that support channel. The chat filter can trigger some actions when certain things happen, like user joins channel #foo, and we are…
Continue reading →Dropbox has a nice feature: It can automatically upload your screenshots and copy the share URL to your clipboard, ready to paste somewhere. However being a non-paying user, free space in my dropbox slowly decreases. I was also annoyed by the fact that the upload and/or generation of the sharing-URL took quite a few seconds….
Continue reading →So as a sysadmin, you sometimes have to use a remote console like included with Supermicro IPMI cards. It’s basically a small embedded computer within a computer, with its own network connection, and allows you to see the monitor output and use mouse and keyboard as if you were there. So, if a server becomes…
Continue reading →Today, I tried to do a ‘sudo port selfupdate’ and ‘sudo port upgrade outdated’. I say ‘tried’ because it failed when it tried to upgrade db46: —> Configuring db46 Error: db46 requires the Java for Mac OS X development headers. Error: Download the Java Developer Package from: <https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wa/getSoftware?bundleID=20719> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: missing Java headers
Continue reading →So I upgraded to Thunderbird 3 some time ago. It has nice new features, like the grouped folders. Anyway, there are a few things that annoyed me too; one of them being the fact that whenever someone sends a mail to me and some other people, only the first recipient was displayed, with a “more…”…
Continue reading →The problem Did you ever want to install a font on your Mac that’s on a SMB share, for example on a Windows/Unix server? Did you experience the font was broken somehow, being displayed in the finder as “unix executable file” with 0kb size? We had this issue here often, finally I figured out why…
Continue reading →The most common solution is pressing the eject key on the keyboard. If that fails for some reason (in my case the key was not working properly) you could always drag the DVD icon to the trash or right-click (ctrl-click) it and click “eject” – as long as there is a CD or DVD in…
Continue reading →Have you ever tried to embed video files in PowerPoint? If you managed to do that, have you ever tried to play that presentation on other PCs or even on a mac? It’s a pain in the ass. I haven’t yet reached the point to say it’s impossible, but at least I can say it’s…
Continue reading →Now this was a weird one. The user said he was unable to work because every 20 seconds, his programs in which he was working were hidden and the desktop would show up. He told me he already rebooted the machine. So I opened the End Tasks dialog with Cmd-Alt-Esc and forced a finder restart….
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