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Stuck in a alternate reality…

Recently I’ve been working with PLC’s – which is so far from the computers I’m used to. As a GNU/Linux user I’m accustomed to having almost any tool available at the touch of my fingertips, and great amounts of knowledge in a instant.
But the PLC world? It’s a closed universe, with no protocol documentation (that [...]

They get tinier…

One of the things I’m wondering about is what the two golden contacts at the opposite end of the USB is for. It seems strange to place ‘em there, but who knows?
In total, the active parts of this USB memory device 561mm3, and can contain 16GB of data. If we scale this up, we get [...]

OpenSuSE 11.2 – keyboard does not work in X.org

OpenSuSE 11.2 is out.As usual, not everything works. This time? In for a real charm: keyboard and mouse does not work in Xorg. Even when removing the config and running SaX2 it does not work. After som help from

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Spotify – let us tag the music.

Spotify is adding new features all the time. So it’s time to voice my wish for spotify:
Let us tag the music!
That is the only show stopper for me right now – I can’t sort music in any other way than playlists. I can certainly make playlists, and I can share them, but I cannot tag [...]

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Torrent workflow in the shell.

I use torrents for distributing various things, like Urospredere which I transcoded. When doing this, I realised I lacked the knowledge needed to create torrents from the terminal, and examine them. I therefor found some tools for it:

torrentinfo
Torrentinfo is a nice tool for querying an excisting torrent for information like size, trackers, and files contained [...]

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First Time KDE 4.2.

After I installed OpenSuSE 11.1 a while ago, the writing have been on the wall – KDE 3 is dying, and KDE 4 is the new kid in town, with shiny toys and powerful tools. At least that’s what I’ve been told. And yes, many people report problems with KDE 4.2.
It’s nice. It’s shiny. It [...]

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My laptop is broken.

Let’s say one happends to step on ones laptop. And that the result is a minor crack. What does one do? Call IBM, get a quote at over 370$ for a LCD panel, or check out e-bay and find one for 30-50$?
The support guy from IBM was nice and gave me the part number and [...]

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Intel x3100/GMA 965 and OpenSuSE 11.1

This is not needed anymore. Following these instructions might leave you with a non-working install

OpenSuSE 11.1 works quite alright on Intel hardware, with one major quirk: 3D rendering is utterly broken. Or rather – it was when it shipped.
If you suspect you’ve got this problem, run glxgears from a terminal, and watch the output:

$ glxgears
1025 [...]

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Using OpenSolaris 2008.11 as desktop for one day

I’ve written about OpenSolaris earlier, and I’m impressed. It’s a promising OS, with a few quirks. I decided to use it as desktop OS for a day.
First of, it’s Gnome. I prefer KDE, but hey, I take what’s available. It’s not that important really. The first thing I missed was OpenOffice, which should be installed [...]

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Problem with the links on comments.

Sadly, I had a minor problem with the links from the comments to the targets of those links… Wordpress somehow URL-encoded the ‘ rel=’external nofollow’-part into the URL, resulting in something like <a href=’http://example.com/’rel=’external nofollow’>link text</a> which – needless to say – did not really work that well. Turns out the culprit was in comment-template.php [...]

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