You have to also use chage:

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sudo passwd -l root
sudo usermod -p ! root
sudo chage -E-1 root

So my previous post about this subject is now obsolete ;)

I’ve managed to get XBMC running (and good!). It took me a while to get everything to my liking. Almost everything works perfectly! Except sound is still a bit of a hassle. Linux (with pulseaudio) only sends analog sound through my s/pdif connection...

As easy as:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install firefox-3.6

In reply to my last article about media centers. Well, I installed xbmc this weekend and actually it kinda sucked. Installation was a breeze: kudos for that. But when I ran it, it hogged all of the cpu time of the second core. 100% constantly.

I’ve...

Well as the title says: the cronjobs of the root user didn’t run on one of my servers (MY MACHINE!) and it took a while to figure out why they weren’t running. It ended up to be something with locking the root account. These steps fixed the problem...

One of our Joomla! sites was “hacked” with some stupid script and the fuckers put a iframe in every page :(

But with sed that was fixed in a matter of seconds:

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find . -type f -print |xargs sed -i...

I saw that there are python bindings for libindicate. They’re called “python-indicate”.

There’s also a wiki about this new feature from Ubuntu. I thought about creating a plugin for weechat that uses this library. Especially because the notify-plugins...

Ubuntu 9.10 comes with an older version of weechat. So I downloaded the stable release 0.3.0 and installed it:

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./configure --prefix=/home/leon/Software/local/ --enable-gtk --enable-demo
make
make...

For php I use Zend Studio for Linux. We have a license at work for it and it is in my opinion the best editor for php. It’s relatively fast and you can use it to quickfix php over an ftp connection.

For Ruby I use netbeans. I would also like to use...

When enabling Visual effects Zend wouldn’t maximize anymore. So after a bit of googling I found a nice tutorial to fix the problem with Zend.