Software and OS configuration and tweaking guides, etc.
Mostly for *nix systems (specifically Linux), but also Windows guides included
Why Windows section? Windows blows!
Yes, it sure blows - however sometimes one just has to use a computer with windows (at friends for example) and my guides are written as simple solutions to problems that I've faced and solved so others can get past them easyer. I don't use Windows on my computer except when absolutely needed and under VMWare virtual machine - never booting out from Linux.
Linux and other Unix guides
- Installing Irssi on Unix-system in userspace
Overeasy guide for compiling irssi irc-client on an UNIX system without root priviledges under your homedirectory - for whatever reason you wan't to do it (I did to get SSL support for connections).
- SSL-support for mIRC - the easy way
mIRC does support SSL secured connections, but only after installing OpenSSL library's for mIRC as they could not include them with mIRC. - Installing SSH-server for Windows
With this guide you can start running your own shell server, irc with console based clients (eg. Irssi from anywhere you can access computer if you keep it on. With cygwin you get a nice *nix style command prompt with loads of useful *nix tools, not that awful Windows Command Prompt - you can also install and run many originally *nix programs compiled to run under cygwin. You will also have a secure encrypted FTP-like fileserver known as SCP - comes with SSH.
Out-of-site resources
- IE PNG Transparency
It makes web designers sad that Internet Explorer 6 and older do not support transparency in PNG images - but there is a really simple way to fix it and this site explains how. See the penquin on the top-left corner of this page? If you are visiting this site with IE and it's older than IE7 you can notice that the image is tranparent even though it normally does not work.
NOTE! I noticed that for some reason this does not work on IE 5.01 - don't know why, but it should work on IE 5.0x browsers and does work on IE6.