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I’ve successfully installed Microsoft Office XP on Linux using Wine. It works quite fine and it’s really fast. I got some problems with Macros in Excel, and in particular I was getting the error “Error accessing file. Network connection may have been lost” on every startup. But I found a way to avoid that annoying […]

Sometime ago I wrote a watchdog against SSH login attacks. After that simple class, I started working - actually not much! - on a more flexible and configurable watchdog engine. But nothing came out so far.
The codebase is short and quite good I think, and I was implementing that using TDD approach (only on the […]

Got the problem this evening, and I’ve been getting crazy for a couple of hours.
Quick solution for the inpatients: the “fast user switching” and the “welcome screen” feature in XP makes Remote Desktop not work properly. So, disable it and you’ll solve 90% of rdesktop problems. (Notice that those two options needs to be […]