It sometimes happens that programs written for old versions of Windows will not work on new versions even with compatibility mode enabled. It is not uncommon for such program to crash and show some cryptic message that even a person of technical background can not understand. Sometimes only a simple …

Very often, when exploring contents of directory trees, I find myself confused between the the "ls" and "cat" commands and mistakenly type one instead of the other. Both these commands are used pretty often and conceptually they have similar meanings. One says "print out a content of directory". The other …

While experimenting with the OpenNI2 samples, I sometimes would get the following error when trying to run one of the executables:

~/OpenNI-Linux-x86-2.2$ Samples/Bin/SimpleViewer
Samples/Bin/SimpleViewer: error while loading shared libraries: libOpenNI2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The dynamic library file …

It is always good to cut on household expenses, especially at times when product prices are rising. In this post I have gathered several tips that will help you save money monthly with only small impact on your quality of life.

Notice that this post is intended to help Israeli …

I would like to share an Eclipse plug-in that I have recently developed. It possible to install it from the following update site: http://update.nihamkin.com/spartan/.

If you are not familiar with "spartan programming", you can read about it on this …

I wrote a bash script which should allow starting blogofile blog posts more conveniently. This will set up everything needed with a single command.

This script will perform:

1. Create a file in the _posts directory. The file name will be prefixed with the next number in the sequence (personal choice …

Recently, I was writing a plug-in that performs some refactoring (of which I will write in a separate post).

Writing the refactoring was not too complicated, but figuring out how add the menu items correctly into the Refactor menu took a lot of time.

I tried to figure this from …

I own an old Acer szw4300U scanner. Making it work with Linux is not exactly a plug and play, but not very complex either. Here is how it is done.

Drivers

An easy way is to use SANE which is a framework that connects scanning software (frontends) with the scanners' …

Sometimes when building a blogofile site I encounter "No such file or directory" IO error. In this article I will explain the cause of the error as well as how to prevent it.

This simple but use-full blogofile hack will allow you to alter the style of posts which are marked as special. For example the post you are reading belongs to the "Special" category and therefore has a golden background instead of the gray default one.

This is quite straightforward hack, all …