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  • 2011-10-14
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How-To : Update Spotify on RHEL6 x64 native client

See the post for how to install spotify on a Linux Client (RHEL 6 x64 in my case). This post is for how to upgrade. 2012-02-01: Updated, added --nodeps to the rpm upgrade. 2013-01-08: This has been confirmed to work with spotify-0.8.8, updated typo in symlink part. Why …

  • 2011-09-26
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Windows 8 Developer Preview + VMWare Workstation

VMWare Workstation 8 is required (doesn't work in 7). The x64 version (without developer tools) installs just fine on my Win7 x64 Core i7 machine with virtualization enabled in BIOS. Just disable the easy install bullcrap (you may have to remove the floppy drive). Boots fine and logs on, can …

  • 2011-08-25
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How-To : Install Spotify on RHEL6 x64 native client

Hey! You need premium for RHEL6 native client to work. If you get it to work with WINE it would work for free (as a plus you get it with the very annoying ads). My machine is a RHEL 6 64-bit. The only requirement I had was that I did …

  • 2011-07-27
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How to restrict access to your phpmyadmin

Went through the apache logs on my web-server and saw some access requests to my phpmyadmin page. It's probably a good idea to restrict access to this web based sql admin interface (in case there is an exploit I don't want somebody to use it on this). How to make …

  • 2011-07-13
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Reading encrypted/password protected pdf on Linux

The problematic PDF The CFP300 material on http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-2041 is encrypted so that it cannot be printed/re-edited without a password. If you try to open this with evince (default .pdf viewer in Gnome) it will ask for a password. pdftotext (comes with the software suite …

  • 2011-07-08
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Aurora 7 - The future Firefox

Just got an update on Aurora (it's like daily builds of the latest mozilla - with all the nice updates). I've been running it since they made it available and I have not had any issues with it. The only slightly annoying is that almost daily (if you restart the web …

Buying Kindle in Finland

On the 28th I purchased it around 1900. Today on the 30th at 0820 it arrived in the airport in Helsinki. Also yesterday somebody called and said it would come this week. Update: It's now on the way to my work! Got it around 12 or so. Less than 48 …

  • 2011-06-20
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Frustration?

This is from a post on the ITRC forum, I will copy it into here because the forum are moving soon and you never know if the links will work or not :) Also I do want to immortalize it. Title: Is it just me? Or does everything required a fw …

  • 2011-06-19
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PostgreSQL upgrade - compressed dumpfile

Why does a PostgreSQL upgrade require an export, uninstall, install and then import of the database? That big changes in the database? It would be nice to know how to import from a compressed archive, anybody ever got this working? If so, please leave a comment! I've been googling my …

Last Exam Day

Ever been there after your last exam? You've just started a new job and some time ahead into the job you need to take the plunge, make some big changes, upgrades, something you haven't done before or just something that has a big impact. Maybe it's the day you do …