Started with Moose
Since my early Perl days decades ago, wow, it’s really more than a decade ago, probably two, since I started programming with Perl, I thought about OO style.
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Replace tabs with spaces in Emacs
In fact this is just a re-post of Julien Palards blog entryEmacs: replace tabs with spaces. I just want to keep it for my personal memory:
SVN: Relocate all subdirectories
I had to change the location of a SVN server for quite some working copies since we migrated from Subversion 1.4.6 to 1.7.1 and change the protocol from svn ...
minTTY: A usable terminal for Windows
From time to time I get re-bound to an operating system that’s not my favourite: Windows. This time it’s in the Windows 7 incarnation. OK, I have to admit th...
Resolve incoming conflicts with SVN automatically
OK, you might expect that I have the killer tool that really solves merge conflicts automatically, but this one-liner is much simpler. I sometimes update my...
Total Commander and lightning fast deletion
My colleague Martin gave me the hint that setting
Started with jQuery
Since I needed a good Javascript library to ease some of the daily Javascript stuff one has to fight with I decided to start with jQuery. I used mootools al...
Updated Debian Lenny eAccelerator packages again (AMD64)
And again there are some updated packages for eAccelerator 0.9.5.3 on Debian (AMD64)
Backporting Subversion 1.6 to Debian Etch
Unfortunately I’ve to use a machine running Debian Etch. Yes, that’s pretty old and it should definitely updated to Lenny asap, BUT I’m not the admin… sigh ...
VirtualBox: Slow network, bad checksums and retransmissions
OK, I’ve to admit that I still use Windows for some tasks, even worse it’s Windows Vista. The good point is that I use a virtualised version running on Virtu...
Sun Java 5 on Ubuntu Karmic
Since the <a href=”http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5/>End of Life of Sun’s Java 5</a> is reached and even the End of Service Life (EOSL) at 8th of Oct...
Roundcube installer (version 0.3) and eAccelerator
I use Roundcube mail from time to time, but faced some errors or weird behaviour regularly. I therefore decided to re-install the latest stable version, whic...
Meizu M6, Rhythmbox and HAL
I already wrote about my Meizu M6 and Rhythmbox and how to get them working together. This time HAL, the hardware abtraction layer in recent Linux systems is...
JEE on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) 64bit
I recently struggled with the installation of JEE on my 64bit version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty). I wanted to install the version without the JDK, but with Glas...
Nagios integration of Zero RRD
If you’re running Nagios as you monitoring and alerting software and Zero RRD at the same time you surely would like to integrate them.
Javascript isArray() : Check if an element/object is an Array
I work on the front-end part of Zero RRD framework again. It was a very basic interface and the usability wasn’t, well isn’t that good. The new stuff is mos...
Subversive in Eclipse Ganymede
I updated my pretty old Eclipse Europa installation to Ganymede today. OK, the restart you have to do quite often were really annoying, but besides that ever...
Bash: loop over all lines of a file (the right way)
I have to admit that I’m a candidate for the Useless use of cat award sometimes.
Suppress column names on MySQL command line output
I use the MySQL command line interface regularly to fetch some data from a DB. Usually I want to have to column names as well, but if you want process the ou...
MySQL command line return values and Bash scripting
As I already told in Suppress column names on MySQL command line output I use the command line interface of MySQL quite often. Especially if you want to do s...
Meizu M6 and Rhythmbox
I own a Meizu M6 for quite a while and I’m very happy with this iPod alternative. Anyway I had the problem that Rhytmbox didn’t recognise it as a music playe...
Convert a text file from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1
From time to time you stumble upon the problem of character encodings. You get a file in encoding A, but prefer it in encoding B.
Change UUID of a Virtualbox VDI
I use <a href=”http://www.virtualbox.org/>Virtualbox</a> regularly. Recently I wanted to use a VDI twice for different machines. One intended for...
Sun PDF import extension for OpenOffice 3
I recently needed to edit a file for which I had the PDF version only. That was the time where the Sun PDF Import Extension is becoming really handy. What y...
Xen domain and the forgotten root password
Lately I had on of these problems that could run into real trouble… … unless you find a very easy solution for it. I wanted to su to root and realised that ...
Audacious as XMMS replacement
I recently read on <a href=”http://www.schmalenegger.com>schmalenegger’s blog</a> about the absence of XMMS in the Ubuntu repositories. I notice...
NFS-Export und fsid
Ich beschäftige mich mal gerade wieder mit NFS. Wenn man mal einen ersten Blick auf NFS wirft, so denkt man, dass es da eigentlich gar nicht so viel zu erzäh...
Virtualbox, Debian Sid and my AMD64
There are a lot of virtualization solutions around and a played around with VMware a bit. It’s quite comfortable to use the VMware converter to convert your ...
Fonts von QT-Anwendungen in Gnome
Seit einiger Zeit quäle ich mich schon mit total hässlichen Fonts von QT-Anwendungen unter meinem Gnome. Ich gebe es ja ungerne zu aber es gibt tatsächlich g...
Meizu M8: die iPhone-Alternative
Wer hätte noch nicht vom iPhone gehört, dieses schnuckelige Telefon von Apple. Ich bin dem Charme dieses Stücks Männerverführung auch ein wenig erlegen, alle...