sshfileuploader: uploading large files over ssh over an unreliable connection

I'm having for the last month a very bad internet connection which makes it almost impossible to upload files anywhere: drive, facebook or WARs to my toy server. Especially the latter one is really annoying as the SSH connection will really abort with an ugly network error. I suspect a misconfiguration in the TCP/IP settings … Continue reading sshfileuploader: uploading large files over ssh over an unreliable connection →

mdadm woes

After migrating a software RAID 5 to Ubuntu LTS 12.04, the system wouldn't come up again after rebooting. I believe Chris Siebenmann to splendidly have analysed [1] the problem: a race condition with udev losing the race. His solution is to: Change /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/mdadm-functionsas follows: degraded_arrays() { + udevadm settle mdadm --misc --scan --detail --test >/dev/null … Continue reading mdadm woes →

Internet Explorer: Disabling clicks on a page

Disabling clicks on a webpage should be easy: put a div in front of it with a fixed position which should get all clicks. With IE that is not easy because a completely transparent element will forward clicks to the underlying element. Some solutions I found: Alpha filter with background Adding these CSS properties (IE8 … Continue reading Internet Explorer: Disabling clicks on a page →

Internet Explorer, zooming and resize events

My current project (cat4trad) for the European Parliament, which involves heavily GWT and javascript in bringing a seamless user experience to translators, we frequently run into issues with different browsers. The one I run into today was about a window resize event not being detected by IE8 and IE9. This simple test should always print … Continue reading Internet Explorer, zooming and resize events →

CRTL+Space not working in Ubuntu applications

For some time now content assist and the command panel have been broken in Eclipse and Ubiquity running under Ubuntu; they wouldn't trigger the pop-up menues when pressing CRTL+Space. The reason is ibus intercepting that key combination and it's just as easily solved [1]: Open gconf-editor. Choose desktop -> ibus -> general -> hotkey. Open … Continue reading CRTL+Space not working in Ubuntu applications →