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compiz with ati radeon x600 - 09 Feb 2008
i just managed to get compiz to work with my ati radeon x600 chip used in my notebook. nothing new, you think, but it works without having to use the proprietary fglrx driver that breaks suspend to ram in the newest version of ubuntu.
it seems to be possible for a while, but i didn’t know [...]
about energy consumption - 14 Oct 2007
today I want to post about something less specific, but way more important (not that my other posts would be meaningless, but they are sometimes really specific) than I usually do; it’s the energy consumption of all the devices around us that we use often.
my topic in this context has of course something to do [...]
BlueProximity - 30 Sep 2007
a friend from school told me about the application BlueProximity. it’s a small utility that locks your screen when you walk away from your computer and unlocks it when you return.
it measures the distance of a bluetooth device (for example your mobile phone) to do so.
a really nice idea i think!
upgrade to gutsy, compiz-fusion - 22 Sep 2007
hello everyone!
yesterday I upgraded my ubuntu feisty to the new gutsy. even if it is not even beta yet, it seems to work really well. I didn’t have any troubles with my mainboard as I did have them last time.
however, there aren’t too many new things, or I didn’t see them. the new printer dialog, [...]
growing raid5 arrays is a lot of work - 09 Sep 2007
just a short post this time
as you maybe know, I do use linux software raid to store all my data. now i bought a new 500gb western digital drive and added it to my existing raid5 array which is made of 3 drives like the new one (information on growing came from this site). I [...]
aspect ratio with mplayer on widescreen displays - 19 May 2007
just fixed an annoying problem that occured when i wanted to play movies on my notebook (has widescreen display). the movies were always stretched horizontally. the problem occured only with mplayer, with vlc the movies looked good. however, vlc is a little slow for hdtv movies.
the fix is to set the monitoraspect in the mplayer [...]
vdsl is coming - 12 May 2007
Yes, the new technology will soon be usable for fast internet access according to the swisscom site, VDSL will be available by 1st of july.
the following speeds are possible:
for “private users”
15000/1000
and for business (really expensive)
12000/2000
16000/4000
green.ch offers the private speed for 88.- per month, which is a little expensive. i’d like to see a [...]
Read Full Post »wordpress and the spam problem - 08 May 2007
seems that I found a solution for the comment-spam problem when I updated my blog; the plugin akismet. it checks the content of a new comment against a web-service, and if it looks like spam, it is held in a seperate queue. the plugin is not new, I was just too lazy to install it [...]
Read Full Post »new blog and new theme - 05 May 2007
hello everyone
I just updated my wordpress blog to 2.1.3 and also I installed a new theme. seacliff-10 was the template and I just replaced the header image using a photo taken on my holiday in corsica. here you can find the original image
feisty fawn on my notebook - 28 Apr 2007
i just updated ubuntu to feisty on my notebook that i also use at work, which made me a little cagey.
however, everything seems to work well and it installed the ati binary driver automatically the only problem was with vmware, but I quickly found a fix here: http://icanthack.com/?p=53
ubuntu 7.04 feisty fawn on msi p965 neo - 07 Apr 2007
hello everyone!
i know I didn’t write too much in the last time, but now I’m (temporarily) back
so what am I going to write about? well, I want to let you know, how you can avoid the problems with the Intel P965 chipset when installing ubuntu feisty fawn.
I had ubuntu edgy working and fist [...]
aacs cracked? - 02 Jan 2007
According to this Post and many other sources, AACS, the copy-protection used on HDDVDs and also on Blu-Ray discs, seems to have been cracked.
This would be nice, because it would make it possible for open source media players to play encrypted, legally bought movies on these new disc types.
The same thing had to happen to [...]
adsl outage - 23 Oct 2006
today I expierenced the first adsl outage since I changed my connection from tv cable to adsl. but it was one of the bigger outages I heard of;
adsl was down from 8 o’clock till around 20:20 in the whole village. however, something made me think more than the outage itself;
my mother told me, that she [...]
comments and spam - 19 Sep 2006
I hope nobody wrote a comment in the last few weeks. I had to mark all of them as spam, as it became too time-consuming to have a look at all of them.
There have been around 670 spam comments being posted in the last 4 weeks. I added an anti-spam plugin which checks the email-adress [...]
Dell recalls notebook batteries once more - 15 Aug 2006
I already blogged about this topic 10 months ago and read something new today.
I was really impressed of the count of the laptop batteries which will be recalled; over 4 million pieces of them! I believe this might get really expensive for Dell.
Another thought was: What about my own laptop battery?
The last year, Fujitsu Siemens, [...]
