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The problem is NetworkManager. Here is a quick solution.

Quick tip for those of you with SSDs.

Sometimes when you install Plone, the installer will not compile certain modules during the Python compilation stage, simply because the development packages are not available. Here's how to fix that.

There are many quirks and oddities about serving audio properly. Here's how to tackle them from Plone through Varnish.

Plone's JavaScript resource registry can gzip almost all of its JavaScript resources. But one does not get compressed.

SWF files served from Plone servers with gzip encoding activated, or served from other Web servers that transmit their data in chunked encoding, make Flash very sad. Here, we have a solution.

The quickest way.

A fast procedure to ensure the best result.

A step-by-step guide to install ZFS on a newly-installed Fedora system, with screenshots and tips.

ZFS keeps winning over btrfs on many fronts. Here's a short list that explains exactly how.

Here's a hacky fix that worked for me. Works for Ubuntu too.

You may not want to keep those disks rotating all day long, if they're not in use.

The library is installed in the wrong location on Fedora 15 64-bit machines. Here is how to fix it.

If you have a wireless adapter on Linux like the ath9k (Atheros) or others, and you are on Fedora, here is a solution.

You have probably seen very simple IPTables rules to do this. This is a little bit better.

It is not only superior to the iPhone 3GS in what you can do -- the user interface is really streamlined.

Relax. Your content hasn't disappeared -- is there, hidden by a perhaps overzealous malfunction protection mechanism.

A tip of the trade from a fellow LTSP administrator: how to set up the default language and desktop session on LTSP terminals booting off a Fedora 11 terminal server.

Running PulseAudio as a system-wide service has advantages -- you can play audio without having logged on, multiple users can play audio on the same audio gear, and music daemons like MPD won't fight for the audio device with PulseAudio. Here's how.

Want to experience movies better but don't have the home theater? Now you can.

NEPOMUK and Strigi do not work in the vast majority of Linux distributions. We'll see why, and how we can fix that.

Are you infected with Conficker? My machines can handle the DDoS that Conficker inflicted on the original eye chart's site. See if you're infected here.

Otherwise known as the slash-ended problem.

Plone Documentation Center has been having some issues with Plone 3.1 and above. Here is the fix.

I have the fix.

The latest release of Plone just hit the shelves, and we're right on track delivering the RPM releases for your CentOS and Fedora.

Those two Plone products seem to never get along. Here's a hot fix for Plone 3.0.x users that will make the excellent qSEOptimizer by QuintaGroup work just fine along with Plone Documentation Center (PHC) and Plone Software Center (PSC).

Plone is pretty secure by default. Unfortunately, as an administrator, having to log in each time you restart your browser is extremely annoying. Here's how to bypass that.

A small trick that will help you when you need a file that is multi-gigabytes in size, but you don't have hours to wait for it to be written to disk.

ZFS is the best filesystem ever invented. And FUSE brings it to Linux. There are, however, some caveats you need to keep in mind if you want to start it properly.