hjkl for world domination.
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Two weeks ago, I acquired a shiny “new” second-hand Nokia N79, because my good old Nokia 1600 (which has served me well for over three years) died as a result of drowning in my leaky tent during a high-school hiking trip in the Czech republic.
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For some reason, the new Thunderbird 3 thought it was useful to show me the content_encoding header per default, below the addressee and stuff. This header had such a long name that it disrupted the layout. Luckily, you can change what headers it displays by editing "mailnews.headers.extraExpandedHeaders" in the configuration editor.
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halfgaar, 3 months ago, on
May 26, 2010, at 08:05 |
In Windows, you have to click on windows, and even window-panes, before the scrollwheel works there. With mousewiz, you can alter that behaviour, and make it like most Linux Desktops, where you scroll in the window/pane that is under the cursor.
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halfgaar, 3 months ago, on
May 20, 2010, at 12:05 |
This article explains nicely how to make a self-signed SSL certificate, for Apache for instance:
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halfgaar, 4 months ago, on
May 16, 2010, at 23:05 |
Hard disks are being released that abandon the long-established standard of 512 byte sectors. I just got two Western Digital WD15EARS ones, which uses 4 kB sectors. Western Digital Refers to this as "Advanced Format". This poses some serious problems. I will describe those, and what I did to 'solve' it.
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halfgaar, 4 months ago, on
May 13, 2010, at 19:05 |
I just installed Arch Linux on a RAID1+LVM, which involved some work. There already is a nice article about it, but I wanted to summarize for myself.
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halfgaar, 4 months ago, on
May 13, 2010, at 18:05 |
I just got two Western Digital 1.5TB WD15EARS disks. This drive has a feature called intellipark, which parks the head after the disk is not used for a while. This is supposedly a power saving feature. But, as someone explains, it can also severely decrease the lifetime of your drive.
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halfgaar, 4 months ago, on
May 13, 2010, at 14:05 |
I'm collaborating with YTEC on a new website for Aihato. I've picked WordPress to do most of the heavy lifting for this project. So far, I've spent most of my time on this project to get a good development environment in working order, with WordPress living in its own directory and some deployment recipes managed from a Makefile.
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I'm officially a convert. I finally went from a floating-only window manager to a tiling window manager. And it does floating too! Awesome seems to be everything that Window Maker just couldn't be for me.
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