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conky : integrating rTorrent downloads monitoring
Conky is a lightweight system monitoring tool. It has many built-in probes (processor load, memory usage, temperature sensors, etc), but it is still pretty easy to extend it if you don’t find the...
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Xfce4 : Bug with key bindings
There is currently a little bug in Xfce4 which prevents you to bind the key combinations involving SPACE and ESCAPE. For example you can’t bind <WINDOWS>-<SPACE>, but you can bind...
View ArticleGentoo : Running Cacti with LigHTTPD
If you use Gentoo and tried to install Cacti with Lighttpd instead of Apache, chances are that you ran into this error message : ?View Code TXT1 2 3 4 5 6...
View ArticleFirefox (Linux) : “Middle-click on page loads URL” annoyance
Firefox will load whatever URL is in the copy-paste buffer in the page if you middle click somewhere on a page. My mouse’s wheel also serves as the middle button, and I found it really annoying that...
View ArticleAsterisk : Basic SOHO environment VoIP PABX configuration
Asterisk is a free telephony software. I’m posting here sample commented configuration files for reference purposes, hoping they will help you get kickstarted if needed. This config sets up : SIP...
View ArticleAutoHotkey : Copying without formatting
One of the common annoyances of copy-pasting on Windows is that it tries to copy-paste the formatting as well. This issue can easily be fixed by the following AutoHotkey macro, which will copy the...
View ArticleAsterisk 101 : How to troll telemarketers (aka automatically send hidden...
If like me you get tons of telemarketers calls, there’s an easy way to get rid of them with a quick Asterisk hack. The following Asterisk configuration snippet will immediately send any hidden caller...
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Asterisk 101 – Ghetto GoogleVoice : Signing up for / using GV even if you’re...
GoogleVoice (GV for short) is a great service (I won’t go into the details, but you can read up about it here), but it is unfortunately accessible only if you are in the USA. Granted there is already...
View ArticleAsterisk 101 : How to get rid of your mother-in-law …
… or anyone else really, with a little trick to implement a black list and filter unwanted callers. 1. The BLACKLIST function Asterisk implements a BLACKLIST function which can be used to check...
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Getting Spotify to run on Gentoo/Linux: A Gross and Cruel Hack
Spotify is a great way to listen to music. Unfortunately the official client only runs on Windows and Mac machines. There is an experimental unsupported client for linux, however it’s provided as a...
View ArticleSAP Hybris platform sizing guidelines
Hybris is a very widely used platform for eCommerce. It is a somewhat complex piece of software, with multiple interacting components. When trying to obtain optimal performance, there are a few...
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