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How to fix apt-get missing keys (Debian)

Lately, my Debian servers have been bugging me with stuff like this everytime I tried to apt-get update:W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs:XYZ123W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems...

May 28, 2009 · 2 min · François Planque

How to get AC-3 5.1 surround sound on your Mac

So your hooked up your Mac to your 5.1 receiver and all you get is lousy stereo? Worry no more, decent AC-3 support is finally available for Mac OSX! In my case I have an Intel Mac Mini from 2006 hooked up to a Denon AVR-3801 via a fiber optic S/PDIF…...

March 11, 2009 · 16 min · François Planque

How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line

If your Page Up/Down and Home/End of line keys don't seem to work in Mac OS X Terminal, here's how to fix them!...

December 21, 2008 · 11 min · François Planque

How to use SSH private keys on Mac OS X

First cool thing that everybody knows already: Mac OSX is based on Unix so you get ssh out of the box. Second cool thing you may not know: OS X 10.5 actually also comes with an ssh key agent (ssh-agent). That means that, without any additional softwar…...

December 21, 2008 · 3 min · François Planque

How to manage MySQL binary log space (Debian)

So it turns out that what is filling up my root partition is my MySQL binary logs.A collection of fat files in /var/log/mysql ...So I had several options: Move the logs to a different partition Increase the size of the root partition D…...

October 15, 2007 · 2 min · François Planque

Why is my Linux root partition full?

Oh my... nothing puts a server down on its knees more than a root partition with 0% free space. Oh well, ok, maybe being dugg beats it. But still, when you have a full partition, you're in trouble... First thing is to find what is using that much spac…...

October 15, 2007 · 2 min · François Planque

How to check what MySQL version I am using?

In order to determine which MySQL version you're running you can type the following command: mysql -V Sample results: # mysql -V mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.11, for pc-linux-gnu (i386) # mysql -V mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.32, for pc-linux-gnu…...

October 1, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

How to improve the mouse speed on Mac OS X

Ok, I've been annoyed by this since the very first day I've been using my Mac Mini: the mouse feels weird, very weird. Broken actually!Part of my problem was the Bluetooth operating range, which I could only fix by moving the mac nearer to where I us…...

September 16, 2007 · 7 min · François Planque

How to open Windows Explorer with the Folders shown

Dammit, I had this at the time I was using Windows 2000 and I don't understand how I beared living without it ever since. My life just got better, again ;) Here's what you need if you want a shortcut to open the Explorer on a given folder (for example…...

September 8, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

How to redirect www.domain.com to domain.com (or reverse)

Most sites can be reached by two different URLs. For example http://b2evolution.net/about/features.html and http://www.b2evolution.net/about/features.html . This is good for the users who can choose wether or not to type in the "www." part. However, i…...

March 21, 2007 · 4 min · François Planque