This is a lovely little command which allows you to run commands in the linux terminal after you have exited. This is useful to keep services running in Linux without…
Run nohup without nohup.out
Re-order Classipress Categories
So for quite some time I’ve been wondering how to do this, and decided its now time ? The perfect plugin for changing the category/taxonomy order for Classipress / WordPress…
Using Bluecove to send data with L2CAP
There are a good number of Bluetooth JSR82 implementations out there. Some cross-platform, others just for linux. The most common one found for Windows is Bluecove. Now this works nicely,…
Lyx won't produce a pdf when Greek symbols are used – Solved
So quite an interesting little problem, is that when you insert μ from insert -> special character -> symbols in Lyx, it won’t allow you to produce a pdf – it…
Getting Bluecove to work in Linux with BlueZ – Solved
When working with Bluetooth and Java on Linux there are a couple of things to take note of: [box] Ensure that the protocol stack is installed – BlueZ is a…
Installing JavaME on Ubuntu 12.04 – Netbeans
So after fiddling a bit , I found that the netbeans installed by default on Ubuntu 12.04 is version 7.1 – Now this is fine, but for some reason I…
Git – Linking local repo to remote repo and pushing for the first time
After struggling with this for quite some time (why, im not sure :), I finally was able to create a remote repo (on bitbucket), and then create a local repo…
Export graph from LibreOffice Calc as image
Although LibreOffice Calc at this stage doesn’t support exporting graphs or charts as images (currently only as pdf), you are still able to get this right. Here’s how: Copy your…
Increase size of VirtualBox vdi image – 100% working
For some strange reason there are a whole bunch of really unhelpful guides on how to increase the size of a virtualbox vdi image. Some of the guides use the…
Add HTML signature to OTRS
OTRS provides basic text signatures, which really aren’t great. So here’s how to enable HTML signatures in OTRS: Edit the following file using Nano: sudo nano /opt/otrs/var/httpd/htdocs/js/Core.UI.RichTextEditor.js Search for **extraAllowedContent **by pressing…









