Slopjong

Colorize the arrow in Inkscape

slopjong — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:24:22 +0000

Since years there’s a bug in Inkscape where – after drawing lines – stroke markers always stay black, even if the color of the strokes are changed. It’s funny to see [...]

VirtualBox: Make your virtual machine accessible from your host system but not from the local network

slopjong — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:49:53 +0000

With VirtualBox, a virtualization software package developed by Sun Microsystems, you run an operating system simultanously with the system that you have booted from. The operating system installed inside VirtualBox [...]

The syn2cat hackerspace needs more space

slopjong — Sun, 12 May 2013 10:26:48 +0000

The syn2cat hackerspace – a location in Luxembourg where geeks meet – is a container building made out of two containers which offers space to two associations. Each association has [...]

Work locally on a remote project with any editor in combination with SSHFS

slopjong — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:35:19 +0000

How often does it happen that you need to edit files remotely while your favourite editor is not capable to do so? My favourite editor is Komodo Edit, the free edition [...]

sshfs: Transport endpoint is not connected

slopjong — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:16:51 +0000

The article Work locally on a remote project with any editor in combination with SSHFS explains how to use SSHFS to mount a remote file system on your local system. Unfortunately [...]

Extremely high disk activity with Windows 8 and how to fix it?

slopjong — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:33:48 +0000

This article is showing the problem which many users encounter. The problem could be simply called Windows but what operating system is best is out of this article’s scope. The problem The [...]

Display PHP code in a html code section

slopjong — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:15:27 +0000

How do I display PHP code in HTML? you may ask yourself. Briefly, you cannot print a string with php code directly to a html code block as shown here: $php_string = [...]

Lightbox2: Limit the max image size

slopjong — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:16:57 +0000

Lightbox2 is a JavaScript technique used to display a high resolution image in a modal dialog while the rest of the website is darkened. Unfortunately the original code of Lightbox2 shows [...]

Migrate from a physical system to a virtual machine (VM)

slopjong — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:00:38 +0000

This article shows you step by step how to virtualize an existing Linux partition. Here a physical system installed on a USB stick is converted to a virtual machine. Create the [...]

SMBus base address unitialized

slopjong — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:20:02 +0000

When your system or your virtualization software (such as VirtualBox) doesn’t provide the System Management Bus (SMBus) which is a derivate of the I2C communication protocol, then your kernel will [...]