What's new in Telligent Community 5.0?

Are you considering to upgrade your CommunityServer 2008.5 to the newest edition 5.0, now dubbed Telligent Community? Here's a list of differences between the two versions.

OpenSolaris 2009.06 released

A little late, but I would still like to grab the opportunity and extend my congratulations to the OpenSolaris team for releasing the 4th major edition of OpenSolaris this month. It feels like the first edition came out just yesterday, but looking at the impressive list of new and advanced features they have already come a long way, compared to other OSes during the same short timespan. Check it out at OpenSolaris.com.

Backup Google Reader subscription list to OPML automatically

If you use Google Reader, here is a script to backup your subscription list (titles and URLs of subscribed feeds) automatically, e. g. from cron or a scheduled task.

Disable "Most visited" in new tabs in Firefox 3

My standard browser is Firefox 3 because of its rendering, cross-platform availability and mostly because of its extensions. Some time ago I installed Google Toolbar to be able to see the page rank of websites I visit. Since then, every new tab I open took much longer to load than previously - I had to wait entering the URL I really wanted to visit to allow Google Toolbar to render 9 screenshots of my "most visited" sites. Well that's nice and all Google, but I've got shortcuts for those sites and even if I don't, I could possibly type their URL faster than it takes you to display this rather useless page in every new tab I open. So I went on a quest to disable this function and it's actually not hard at all!

Count files in a folder recursively

To count the number of files in the current folder and in all of its subfolders (recursively):
find . -type f | wc -l
To count the number of files and folders in the current folder and in all of its subfolders (recursively):
find . | wc -l

How to build a DB9-to-RJ45 serial cable

This type of cable has a female DB9 connector on one end and a male RJ45 plug on the other. It is used to connect to the serial console of older Cisco devices and Sun gear, among others.

Flutter launched

We just launched flutter, the new Danish-language nanoblog. To learn more about the idea behind flutter, check this video.
If you speak Danish and want to create your own nanoblog, please visit flutter.

Accidentally removed user login block in Drupal?

If you mistakenly disabled the user block in Drupal 6 and now have problems logging in - first of all, don't panic.

Less verbose Server: response header from Apache

Unfortunately it's not possible to remove the Server: Apache header altogether from Apache's responses, but you can make them less verbose (and stop telling the whole world which version of Apache, OS and modules you're running.

Run a command in all non-global Solaris zones

This script by Brendan Gregg lets one run a command in all zones (except the global zone).

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