Archive for March, 2008

The strange problem of Firefox/OS X/Flash

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

If you are using Firefox on Apple OS X and you are experiencing problems viewing the Flash content (you cannot see the Flash embedded content, you can see something only moving the mouse pointer over it, sometimes…), you must have the Adblock Plus add-ons installed.
This is a not very well known bug of Adblock on […]

chkconfig and Ubuntu/Debian

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Under my RPM based distros I’m using chkconfig to easily activate and deactivate services during the boot and the shutdown sequence from the shell. Coming to the Debian environment, I have not found one utility like chkconfig to do the same job.
Just today, I have discovered sysv-rc-conf: run-level configuration for SysV like init script links. […]