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Not enough place on my /tmp???

Today, I realized just how small is my /tmp partition by default. It turned out that it's only 100MB and if you happen not to like rest...

I think I'm a star for the Chinese bots. Not this blog, but my site where I pay for hosting, I get thousands and thousand of hits, whic...

After I bough my new laptop (ASUS N550J), quite a decent machine, it turned out it booted very very slowly. Not that I restart that often, ...

The problem was simple. I was trying to launch something with kdesu and I got the "bad display name ":0.0" " error. Aft...

I'm ashamed to admit it, but it turned out I need to install Windows to check whether all my hardware is working properly (because I ha...

For long time, I had no idea how to turn on my nvidia video card, because I have an internal intel card and Sabayon seems to prefer it. Tod...

I have absolutely no idea why my Sabayon uses the comma as a decimal separator, but it does. Go figure. Anyway, it turned out, you can see ...

My external hard drive failed to mount its NTFS partition giving me the following error: " on-zero exit status 13: $MFT must be non-re...

A little card reader fun before going to bed. So we needed to format a 16GB SD card to ext4, it was formatted as fat32 (who the hell uses t...

That turned out more complicated that it seems. The default ways didn't seem to work for me, because the eps was produced by Maple (so ...

Yup, once you know what to look for, it's pretty obvious. I was quite desperate to find a plugin to save my tabs session and restore it...

A little M$ "fun" which I had to suffer to help a colleague. The Trovi and Omiga monsters. It turned out it's a complete disa...

Seriously, I never believed I'll write that stupid post, but anyway. So, I wanted to try Rember The Milk to manage to-do lists and so ...

Quite easily, actually. Note, my only problem was that the Download manager of Firefox opened pdf-s with GIMP, otherwise, pdf-preview work ...