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May 23, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Changing specific ownerships: chmod –from

I copied a bunch of preference files (those files and directories whose name starts with a dot) from my old RedHat home directory into my new Suse install.

May 23, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Changing sound volume or bitrate of mp3 files with lame

Sometimes the recording level of mp3 files is very low.

May 23, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Burning CDs from the command line: cdrdao

K3b seems to be the best GUI for burning CDs on Linux.

May 23, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Apache on Mac OS X

I still use one of our ancient Macintoshs (Blue/White G3) as a web server (msbl.helsinki.fi).

May 23, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Adobe Acrobat 5.0.5 under wine

I reinstalled Acrobat 5 to run it under wine.

May 23, 2007 • 5 min read • Technology

Adding a Suse 9 to a Red Hat 9 (two different distros on the same computer)

Red Hat 9 is installed and the following partitioning is present:hdd1 /boot (ext3) 100MBhdd2 /home (reiserfs) 7.8GBhdd3 / (ext3) 7.8GBhdd4 EXThdd5 swap 1GBhdd6 /mnt/documents (reiserfs) 12GBhdd7 /mnt/music (reiserfs) 90GBThe task is to add a second Linux OS (Suse 9) onto this hard disk without destroying anything.

May 23, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

A good introduction to shell scripting

http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst

May 22, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Reading Macintosh Standard-formated disks (hfs)

Apparently the kernel module to read hfs-formated disks is less functional than the one for hfsplus-formated disks.

May 21, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Wine and Adobe Illustrator (can’t find AIRes.dll)

Adobe Illustrator didn't want to start up under wine, because it couldn't find the file AI90Res.dll.
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