February 2007 Archives

Windows: Enable Aero in Vista regardless of system rating.

If you have rather good hardware but M$ has decided that it was about time for some new hardware investment, there is another solution then running to the nearest computershop.

It is rather easy to enable the Aero user interface by changing two registry enties.

Posted by Administrator on Feb 07, 2007

FreeBSD: Vidcontrol SC_PIXEL_MODE and GDM

If you tried just like me to use different video mode settings in combinations with GDM and struggled with Video corruption. Or the console screen did n’t show anything when switching from X11 to the console.

There is a very easy workaround/solution for this:

Posted by Administrator on Feb 06, 2007

Internet: Lighttpd logrotation

Logrotation with Lighttpd can be handled as follows:

• move old logfiles.
• send lighttpd process a SIGHUP (kill -1) signal.

or use a logrotate script/daemon like the newsyslog script in FreeBSD.

Posted by Administrator on Feb 05, 2007