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May 20, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Couldn’t find MIME type application/octet-stream (Konquerer/Kdesktop)

This is copied from http://users.pandora.be/Ice9/Linux stuff/Linux_tips.html.

May 20, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

BSPlayer and corrupted DivX files

I have a couple of scratched CDs with DivX video files.

May 19, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

The PATH in Suse Linux 9 (/etc/profile.local)

Several software installations modify the PATH environment variable.

May 19, 2007 • 2 min read • Technology

kaptain on Suse Linux 9

I am currently trying out several graphical front ends for the molecular software package EMBOSS and I have read good reviews of kaptain.

May 19, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Installation of Duplicate File Finder

I was making order among my 50000+ files in my home directory and realized that I had multiple copies of the same file in different directories.

May 19, 2007 • 3 min read • Technology

Desktop Integration of the Staden Package in KDE on Suse Linux 9

I have installed the Staden package on my laptop.

May 19, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Changing the default to tree view in Konqueror

- Make the changes how you want to window to appear.

May 19, 2007 • 3 min read • Technology

Automatization of Sequence Handling (Staden’s pregap4 and gap4)

Already a while ago I wrote a script, that tries to automatize most of the work involved in getting sequences from our ABI sequencer into a gap4 database.

April 5, 2007 • 2 min read • Technology

Windows XP guest from raw partition under VMWare 4, coLinux as rescue

So far I never was able to run a Windows XP guest OS from a raw disk partition using Linux VMWare.
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