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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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A section about date and time in Debianguiden.dk

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).

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