Whisky – Arbeg 10yo
February 27th, 2009
My parents gave me a really nice bottle of Arbeg 10yo as birthday present. This a very nice and peaty whisky…
Ardbeg 10yo
Archive
Archive for February, 2009
Guitar blues scale
February 25th, 2009
A friend of mine was talking about blues on the piano. He showed me some youtube video’s showing piano blues scales. Since I am a guitar player (well at least I try to be one 
I was looking for some blues scales on the guitar.
Acoustic guitar
Find your font
February 23rd, 2009
Sometimes you see a very nifty font on a website or in a PDF file but you do not have a clue which font it is. WhatTheFont! helps you finding your font.
WhatTheFont! instruction
Code in WordPress
February 21st, 2009
In one of my posts I had a nasty problem which took me a while to find out a solution. The problem was with having two dashes next to each other in an Linux command where I was writing about. Even though I wrote two dashes, WordPress made it appearing as one.
Code button in the toolbar
Special character shortcuts in word processor
February 17th, 2009
Sometimes you need to work with a lot of special characters. In math when working with relations can be a pain when working in a word processor. I was looking in OpenOffice for a preference which makes it possible to use keystrokes to insert a symbol automatically. I could not find one.
Indoor design tool – Sweet home 3d
February 15th, 2009
Next week I will get my very first appartment 
Now I need to draw a map with all the measurements of all the rooms. A friend showed me this pretty neat tool: sweet home 3d. Ik can not only draw maps but gives you a 3d impression as well! Since it is programmed in Java it can run on Windows, OSX and Linux. Happy drawing!
screenshot
Disable root login for ssh server in Kubuntu
February 13th, 2009
If you are a hacker, what is the thing you want to be on a Linux System? Root. You can try to access a ssh server with the root user. There is an option in the ssh server configuration which prevents a remote root login. This does not mean you can not become root, it means no one can directly login as the root user. So if you are logged in as Alice you can simple enter the “su” command to become root.
How we can prevent the remote root login is described below.
Fixing possible Samsung NC brightness issues
February 12th, 2009
If you run Windows on your Samsung NC10 you might have ran into this issue: when you lower your brightness you can not lower it enough. This problem has to do with the “auto-brightness” setting.
bios screen
Google Sitemap generator plugin for WordPress
February 10th, 2009
Google webmaster tools is a nice place for uploading your sitemap. There are several sites around which can create a sitemap automatically. One problem: your weblog has dynamic content. This means you have to update your sitemap every time you add a new post to your blog…
part of the Osiblog sitemap