Starting WhatsApp Web in webapp mode
For one of the most anticipated apps, WhatsApp Web is underwhelming. That being saud, it is a step to right direction, and I use it quite extensively. To most of…
Review: Life is Strange Ep. 1: Chrysalis
Life is Strange is an episodic point and click adventure game, developed by DontNod, who made 2013’s Remember Me for Capcom. There will be 5 episodes in total, and the…
Linux Gaming Setup Part 2: Software configs, Nvidia binary driver, bumblebee, steam and playonlinux howto
I decided to make a second part of my Linux gaming setup post, as I feel that the first one is more like a list of stuff that are on…
Linux Gaming Setup Part 1: Overview and Hardware Selections
So, can you really game on linux? Well I am doing most of my gaming on linux nowadays. Of course, I’m not by any means, an avid PC gamer. In…
Beating the crap out of your ISP’s DNS filtering & redirection
So recently, my home ISP decided to jump the shark and join the line of Indonesian ISP enforcing the use of their DNS server to their customer, by way of…
Setup sendmail to forward to external smtp server
If you want your local installation of sendmail to forward all emails to certain, external smtp server, all you have to do is to enable and setup the smarthost feature…
GnomeShell 3.10 extensions not loaded on startup
I’ve been using GnomeShell since Canonical shoved Unity to my face back in 2011. I recently put GnomeShell 3.10 on my Ubuntu 13.10 install, and I quite like it. Some…
A bit more on sudo: Assigning selective privileges to executables
So I have a user in my box, dedicated only to run database dump from our oracle database. All they have to do, is to execute a specific command, with…
Replacing WIFI+BT combo adapter on Lenovo Ideapad Y510p
Sooo… screw it. Even after everything that I did, the support for BCM43142 bluetooth on Ubuntu just isn’t there yet. Sometime it’s working, most of the time it isn’t. When…
Ubuntu 13.10 and Bluetooth on Broadcom BCM43142 WIFI+BT combo adapter
So, wireless and bluetooth on my spankin new Y510p are provided by a single Mini PCI-e Broadcom BCM43142 adapter. The wifi part worked out of the box, most of the…