Zen of Linux

Basically, every dir that is under your world-browsable path in your www directories will be accessible. Under normal conditions, that’s exactly what you want. For example a domain example.com pointing to /var/www/example.com will allow users to browse around in all subdirectories of /var/www/example.com.
Now, what if you add directories to this path you want to exclude […]

Today I had a strange error while trying to download my emails from my POP3 account. I am using Thunderbird and after downloading a few messages it stopped and spit out an error:
“The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving a message. Mail server mail.example.com responded [SYS/PERM] could not read message file.”
on a German speaking […]

Following Alvaro’s guide today, to repair my broken printer support after my dist-upgrade from 6.04 to Ubuntu 8.04 (amd64!) with version 3.9.2 of hplip from sourceforge. I ran into some issues I’d like to share.
After the process, the printer properly showed up in the System Setup > Printer Window and seemed to work okay, but […]