no sound with amarok2 in ubuntu jaunty 9.04 (64 bit)
21
Sep
it took me hours to figure out why amarok (2) didn’t want to give a damn tone out of its entrails on my jaunty system…
Category Archives: Linux
Nagios: check_by_ssh after reboot
14
Sep
since (at least on debian/ubuntu default installation) the homedir for user “nagios” points to /var/run/nagios the known_hosts file is lost after a reboot and check_by_ssh refuses to connect to any configured ssh-machine… make sure to connect to all ssh-targets as … Read More »
suddenly ‘htop’ stops working?
7
Aug
simply shut down the gpm-daemon, you probably don’t need it anyway…
OSM Xapi command
7
Aug
downloading a given area via the 0.6-API of OpenStreetMap: wget -c ‘http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/map?bbox=-128.8,46.7,-120,51.2’ -O map.osm
setting up various chroots under debian / ubuntu
13
Jul
building clean packages is pretty easy having a defined environment…
building Qt from scratch
1
Jul
stuck with “Basic XLib functionality test failed!” …? building Qt from source on Debian, Ubuntu and RedHat (RHEL5)
creating a slideshow for your SD-card capable TV using digikam
19
Jun
select your preferred pictures and copy them to a separate folder start digikam and select all pictures use ‘Image‘ -> ‘Auto Rotate/Flip using EXIF Information‘ to correct the orientation of the images (this is required since otherwise the resizing step … Read More »
monitoring copy-performance
6
Mar
OLDDATE=$(date +%s) OLDVAL=$(du -s . | sed 's, .,,') while true ; do CURDATE=$(date +%s) CURVAL=$(du -s . | sed 's, .,,') echo $(( ( $CURVAL – $OLDVAL ) / ( $CURDATE – $OLDDATE ) )) OLDVAL=$CURVAL ; OLDDATE=$CURDATE sleep … Read More »
customizing thunderbird
5
Mar
some shortcuts for improved usability in thunderbird. keyconfig-addon is required! Compact Folder: goDoCommand('cmd_compactFolder')
routable Garmin-maps from OSM-data under Linux
20
Feb
mkgmap-svn can now create routable garmin-maps…
EDIT 2009-02-20: see mkgmap devel mailinglist for problems with umlauts and routing-maps