Yesterday I worked with Morten Brix Petersen to implement user comments on the Danish Debian guide. User comment functionality like the one found on PHP’s documentation. While we where at make enhancements we also redesigned the frontpage to look like the rest of the guide.
Read more...The reason for the break down was not big (at least not in gigabyte). It was an old IDE 1.8GB Maxtor harddisk which contained my server OS, homepages and databases. Thank god I have recovered all my data. It is impossible to boot from the harddisk and data transfers are very slow sometimes unstable. It has now been replaced by two 200GB Seagate disks. They are supposed to run RAID1 but so far only a data drive with the websites and the databases is a RAID partition.
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I have been thinking of making a new layout for my blog (and my emcken.dk) homepage.
Yesterday evening I attended a lecture named “Open Source - Linux, disruptive technology or cost cutting measure?</i>” where Richard Seibt spoke. There where about 20 people and it was very exciting. I talked a little bit with him later and he seems like a really great guy.
Read more...Today i played around with syslogd and here is what I learned:
Read more...I also found that the size (dimensions) of a DVD cover should be: 272mm x 184mm. 
When giving the cover 3mm overfill the size is 278mm x 190mm.
At work I sit at a fairly slow machine so it takes forever to transform svg files to high resolution bitmap pictures. Also Java has a default upper memory limit which is quickly excited when exporting to high resolution bitmap pictures. This problem is solved when the default upper limit is increased: -Xmx128m (use 128MB RAM)
Read more...On my way to work I got a crazy thought. IIRC at least 3 questions about how to set time and date has been asked on the danish Debian help forum. This should be addressed with writing a section about how to set date and time on a Debian box. The section should contain a little info about date, rdate with cron and a third command to set the date (which I can’t remember the name of).
Today after the regualy update of my Debian unstable desktop a had some serious problems with my keyboard in gnome :( When holding down a key the stroke wasn’t repeated. Very annoying when using arrow keys (in console mode).
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