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During the February 2010 Python Meetup in Cluj, I gave this talk about how to deploy your very own PaaS on a Digital Ocean droplet using Dokku. Below is a summary of the talk with some extras sprinkled here and there.

So what is Dokku? The short answer could very …

The Alienware 13 R2 (2015) laptop is probably the best compact gaming rig out there, so as you'd expect the Linux the support is underwhelming, to say the least. This setup assumes we want to keep the Windows 10 install and have a dual-boot system.

Windows preparations

First we need …

This is based on a fresh install of Rasbian downloaded from the official site and using a NTFS formated external USB drive.

The setup

Install all the packages we need to save the day:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin ntfs-3g hdparm

Get the drive …

Using @property is nice and peachy when you use the instance of the class, but what if you need to get that property without instantiating the class.

You can do that with @classmethod (you'd say), but I want to use it as an attribute not as a method.

Without further …

I decided to take a leap of faith and install Gnome3 and gnome-shell on my Ubuntu box.

First the installation:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

Some fixes after restart:

$ sudo apt-get purge unity scrollbar* gnome-accessibility-themes
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-themes-standard

Extra …

On the usual channels (like http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/ ) you can only download the 32bit version of the latest Firefox release.

But I stumbled over a public Mozilla FTP where they hold all releases, including the 64bit one.

Link: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox …

If you migrated from Yahoo Messenger! to Pidgin you probably found out that some handy keyboard shortcuts are missing and no alternatives are defined by default.

For example, I used to Ctrl+h to hide/show my off-line buddies, but I didn't have a shortcut for that in Pidgin. I …

You can get the latest Firefox build from the launchpad ppa repositories, but I found that the periodical beta release on Mozilla's website tends to be more stable and usable than the daily builds.

Unfortunately the downloadable build is only 32bit, thus not compatible with the installed plugins in Ubuntu …

If you need to use features like "Shared folders" in Virtualbox guests you have to install the Guest Additions. With Ubuntu desktop or Windows this is a breeze, but I couldn't find a unified guide on how to do it in a server environment.

First you need to install these …

When installing Mozilla Minefield (Firefox daily builds) on Ubuntu, it automatically creates a new profile and copies your current profile there. But on Windows this thing doesn't happen.

When installing Firefox 4b6 on Windows 7 the same profile as the regular installation is used. This can cause a lot of …

For the past couple of days YouTube did not work properly when accessed via Firefox 3.6 (at least on my personal PC).

Here's how the front page looked:

I wasn't able to access any videos, nor my account. Also Firebug showed about 10 JavaScript errors. But it worked OK …

I thought about starting this blog for a while now, just didn’t have the time and/or inspiration to actually do it.

Anyway, this is going to be my place to post news about projects I’m working on, tech rants and other stuff. I just hope it will …