Transparent Xfce Terminal

After I said that I wasn’t that bothered about transparency I found myself drawn towards this. I thought that the opaque text would make this more usable that plain transparency. I was packaging the Xfce4.4 beta, and compiled Terminal as part of this, and thought I’d add …

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Canon S1 IS finally working under Debian

With some help from d-u I finally got my Canon S1 IS working under Debian.

I was concerned because the usual messages that I get when plugging in a USB device about SCSI emulation were missing. However I saw that some people had it working, and that it was in …

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Securing WordPress2 admin with SSL, another way.

So ever since I installed WordPress I have been wanting to use SSL for logins and admin, but everything I tried seemed to have some drawbacks.

First I tried the mod_rewrite sugestion from wordpress.org, but this still had cookies travelling over non-ssl, and also meant that each request was …

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First post - X.org 7 in Debian unstable

So I wanted to get my hands dirty and try something that was going to live up to the label “unstable” as a 2.6.16 kernel hadn’t really managed that. There were a few posts on the debian-user mailing list this morning that seemed to suggest that it …

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