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Using multiple Firefox profiles

Posted on Thursday, 12 November 2015 by

pav

How to use multiple Firefox profiles on Linux effectively

Dealing with the AddressAccessDeniedException

Posted on Friday, 06 November 2015 by

pav

How to give rights to access to the TCP port when testing a self-hosted WCF service.

Convert PDF to images

Posted on Monday, 19 October 2015 by

pav

How to convert a text content PDF to high quality images (and back to PDF)

Increase inotify max user watches

Posted on Wednesday, 07 October 2015 by

pav

Change the default (low) number of inotify user watches.

Using DuckDuckGo without polluting the browser history

Posted on Wednesday, 19 August 2015 by

pav

How to use DuckDuckGo in Firefox, without the behavioral tracking or your searches in history.

How to get web TV to work without Flash

Posted on Tuesday, 26 May 2015 by

pav

A workaround to watch videos without having Flash player installed.

Python command-line tools

Posted on Friday, 23 January 2015 by

pav

Useful command-line tools included in Python.

Adding new file templates to Nautilus's context menu

Posted on Thursday, 15 January 2015 by

pav

How to create and add new file templates.

Get the first day of the week in .NET with C#

Posted on Thursday, 18 December 2014 by

pav

Given a DateTime, get the first day of the week.

How not to install Windows 8.1 from an ISO image