getting supybot to announce new bugzilla bugs - I've just put here the key non-obvious things that tripped me up when trying to set this up. All done on Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS Install supybot and the supyb…

If you are like me and my coworkers, you often end up running stuff as root in your home folder and end up not able to access your own files. For the record, here's the commands to reset the permissio…

Challenge of the day was to fit as many photos as possible on a single flash card to stick in a digital photo frame. Here's how it's done. The frame from Philips goes by the memorable name of 9FF2M4 ,…

Here I outline the solution I chose for backing up my life, er... I mean home folder. (I'm sure there's life outside /home/tim somewhere...) My requirements were: backup to dvd+rw >20GB of data to…