Having tried the local analogue film scanning service provided by Fotospeed, I just have picked up the DVD holding my first „hybrid“ photos. Naturally, the files could not contain any EXIF data related to my camera. On the other hand, it seemed desirable to find and identify those hybrid pictures
If you’re using the Eclipse CDT for C++ development and experience crashes immediately after loading the workspace (during indexing) on Linux (I saw it on Fedora and openSUSE), you should use the workaround suggested in the corresponding Bugzilla entry. Essentially you have to add the line -XX:-UseCompressedOops to
As already mentioned in my last post, my laptop won’t boot from a USB stick prepared using a binary copy of an ISO (by means of dd). Here is the method I use to boot the Fedora Live images off my USB stick using GNU GRUB2. The device node
To „lock down“ Firefox on an openSUSE 11.3 machine, I used the four AppArmor profiles you find below. The first is an openSUSE default profile and the second is based on the openSUSE default profile. My changes include support for PulseAudio sound and the Flash plugin, where the latter
Gestern war ich wieder einmal in der Situation, dass ich eine per Hand gezeichnete Skizze in einem Dokument verwenden wollte. In solchen Faellen ist Vektorgrafik Software Inkscape für mich die erste Wahl. In Inkscape angefertigte Zeichnungen lassen lassen sich ganz natürlich im EPS Format exportieren, das wiederum erste Wahl für
Theorie Bei diesem Titel versteht es sich vielleicht von selbst, dass FTP hier kein Thema ist. Es ist vermutlich zu einem nicht unwesentlichen Teil persönliche Präferenz, aber wenn ich das Wort sicher im Zusammenhang mit Servern verwende, verlasse ich mich immer gern auf SSH. Im Fall eines Fileservers bietet sich
There are several reports of problems with the suspend hotkey on KDE4 [1] [2]. And there is even a bug report on that issue. Naturally, I wouldn’t write about this if I hadn’t experienced the same problem myself. I solved it by slightly modifiying the approach described at
There are quite a number of tales of woe around that topic. I had to find that out when I experienced some trouble myself today. If you’re in the same situation skip right down to the last two lines of this posting, the stuff in between just details the
This morning, when I did the routinely scan of the server’s resource usage history, I noticed a suspicious network activity between 1 and 5 am. Some reading of the latest log files soon identified the traffic to have been caused by a dictionary attack on my SSH server. I