Microsoft Reader run under WINE.

Sigh. Not only is it the best, it's practically the only one unless you're content with fixed-format PDF. Few eBooks are available in, or reasonably convertable to, HTML, and even if they were there aren't any HTML renderers that can do half-decent H&J. None at all can hyphenate even poorly, and justification ( Read more... )

( This post is mostly a note-to-self reminder, but might be quite handy for other Debian / Ubuntu users. )

Modern Linux systems actually have a central certificate store. It's a bit lacking in management UI so far, but it works, and you can use it instead of loading your PKCS#12 certificates into every app you use manually.

First, import your certificate into the GNOME keyring with:

gnome-keyring import /path/to/certificate.p12

Install the libnss3- ( Read more... )

I'm yet to encounter a cellular modem that NetworkManager 0.7 (in Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04-beta) doesn't automatically recognize without any user configuration, driver installation, or anything. Just plug it in (if not built in) and start using it.

Very nice work.

This post is bought to you by the fun of unnecessary wasted time and work rebuilding a server after a double-disk RAID array failure. RAID scrubbing is essential - and is finally supported by Linux's software RAID, but not used without explicit user action.

( Read on if you admin machines that use Linux's `md' software RAID )

If so, first, you're a hopeless geek. Second, I've written a little Python script to work around the issue. I'll post another one that reads the ratings and rewrites Rhythmbox's database with them in a while.
( Details and script code )