New design of my blog

I have be thinking og making a new layout for my blog (and my emcken.dk) homepage. I have drawed a draft for a logo. The face should resemble me and if it looks okay ins SVG I’ll use it as a “signature” / “trademark” / “I-was-here” thing. I’ll try make it in SVG later this week. Perhapes I will soon update my blog to the 0.6(RC1) version. Who know?!

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A different evening

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.

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Remote logging with syslog

Today i played around with syslogd and here is what I learned:

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DVD cover dimensions

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.

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SVG rasterizer with Batik

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)

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