Archive for April, 2006



Today, I was trying to resize a logical volume of one of my systems running Fedora Core 5, configured with two LVM volumes (one for the root filesystem and another one for swap) on top of a software RAID-0. Since the volume I wanted to shrink holds the root filesystem, I had to boot from [...]

Renaming an LDAP entry

The modrdn LDAP operation allows an authorized user to rename an LDAP entry’s RDN (that is, modifying the RDN of that entry).
Optionally, the modrdn operation can keep the old attributes that form the pristine RDN. This can be accomplished by specifiying deleteOldRDN:0 at the end of the modrdn data. If deleteOldRND:1 is specified at [...]

Acabo de leer acerca de una propuesta de sistema anti-phising denominada Garante. Lo curioso de esta propuesta es no sólo que es Española, sino que difiere bastante de otras de las propuestas realizadas en la actualidad. También me sorprende que, según la documentación que he leído, el autor parece estar regañado con las tildes (me [...]

“Hay dos clases de personas en este mundo, buenas y malas. Las buenas duermen mejor, pero las malas parecen disfrutar el día más.”
– Woody Allen.

Although nearly every GNOME or KDE application has native support for printing to PDF files, there are still applications out there which do not support this feature. One example are Windows applications ran under WINE.
Although WINE-emulated Windows applications use the CUPS printing system, they are unable to print directly to a PDF file, like GNOME, [...]