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Lately, I’ve been setting up a home computer backup system using rdiff-backup. I use rdiff-backup because it stores incremental backups and it can send the backups to a remote server over SSH. This means that, once you get passwordless SSH running, you can set up various cron jobs to backup your files to [...]

Do you have a wireless notebook with Samba shares that contain copyrighted materials? For example, your music collection? But you only want to share it with your Xbox Media Center while you’re on the home network — sharing anywhere else could result in copyright infringement. It’s a hassle to disable your shares [...]

A while ago, I posted how to edit Konqueror’s “Create New” menu. Unfortunately, installing the KDE4 desktop seems to nullify this trick. This is because KDE4 redirects Konqueror from /usr/share/templates to /usr/lib/kde4/share/templates . Annoying, really. There are two solutions.
First solution is to copy your files from /usr/share/templates to /usr/lib/kde4/share/templates . [...]

After upgrading to FireFox 3, I noticed that ThunderBird was no longer opening links in FireFox. Unfortunately, there are no Preference entries to modify how ThunderBird opens links, which means going into the Advanced Config Editor (the ThunderBird version of about:config). Just Another Tech Blog (among others) details how to configure ThunderBird to [...]

While many people in this digital age prefer to buy music from iTunes (or other online stores) or, probably more commonly, pirate their music through torrents, I prefer to have the physical disc. I don’t use the actual disc much; I rip the songs to my hard drive, and never see the disc again. [...]