Apparently there is a bug in the Movie Player Youtube-plugin, distributed with Ubuntu 9.04.This bug gives you a message saying Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file, when you try to open a Youtube video. Fixing it was rather easy. Have a look at the solution provided by M.Srinivasaverman …
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I have become pretty tired of the WordPress default layout and I needed a change. However, I am no designer and I am busy writing my PhD. Hence, I did not have time to start making my own layout. I am an engineer, I am partly writing about software reuse, and I think it is …
Lately, probably after running some Firefox upgrade on my Ubuntu (9.04) machine, surfing has been very slow. Firefox has used a lot of resources and it has taken a very long time to open pages. Luckily, by disabling IPv6 it was quite easy to speed it up. The steps below should do the trick (thanks …
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Every now and then one runs over a tool which makes your life just a little bit easier. Just like short keys, these tools make me happy 🙂 I did not know what to do when I needed to merge and delete pages from two pdf documents. However, a few Google searches later I found …
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A while back I wrote about Oliver Baty’s Xbox 360 gamercard plug-in for WordPress. Since then Microsoft have changed their xbox.com site a bit, something which created some layout problems for the gamecard plugin. It seems that Oliver has updated his plugin to reflect these change but so have I. I tried to follow the …
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