Published on
December 31, 2007 in
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Das Jahr 2007 bewegt sich dem Ende entgegen. Für mich war dieses Jahr ein recht interessantes, ich habe viele interessante Leute getroffen, viel mit Technik spielen können und mir viel Wissen aneignen können.
Leider konnte ich nicht alles bloggen, was ich gerne gezeigt hätte, sei es aus beruflichen Gründen oder weil die Artikel meine Aufmerksamkeitsspanne einfach überschreiten (ich hasse es Artikel nachzubearbeiten 
). Ich konnte leider nicht so viel an meine Lieblingsprojekte zurückgeben, wie ich wollte. Ich bin dieses Jahr zwar durch ganz Deutschland gereist, war aber leider nicht bei Veranstaltungen, die mich interessiert hätten (und im sonnigen Süden war ich auch nicht!).
Aber 2008 wird bestimmt besser 
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Vorsätze gibt es, wie immer, reichlich; sei es mehr interessante technische Dinge zu bloggen, tsundere deru endlich zu fixen und an den Start zu bringen… weiß der Henker.
Was 2008 ansteht, und es wird sicherlich kein Weg daran vorbeiführen, ist eine sensiblere Planung meiner Datensicherung. Mir geht nicht nur der Speicherplatz aus, sondern ich habe auch keine weiteren Möglichkeiten zur Expansion. Mit Schlagworten wie NAS oder Fileserver werfe ich schon länger um mich, 2008 werden wohl Nägel mit Köpfen gemacht werden müssen.
Ich hoffe, dass jeder, der dieses Blog liest, eine schöne Zeit in den verbleibenden Stunden des Jahres haben wird — sei es mit Familie, Freunden oder allein. Ebenso hoffe ich, dass der Start in das neue Jahr für jeden hier angenehm sein wird.
In diesem Sinne,
happy 2008 (hoch soll er leben!)
Published on
December 15, 2007 in
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Much to my regret I have a lot of battery-powered devices at home. It starts with a simple clock and goes all the way up to my laptop.
The fact that batteries aren’t really the eco-friendliest thing in the world is not news. So you can do alot to ensure, even though you may be using a lot of battery-powered devices, that you don’t use more than necessary…
My gamepad for instance is a wireless RumblePad 2 (Logitech). I don’t use it that much but the device keeps on draining it’s batteries. Simple solution: Kick the batteries out of the device when you don’t need it.
Also from Logitech: The MX Revolution mouse that I’m using with my laptop. Unfortunately I can’t just remove the batteries from the device but I can at least switch it off completely when I don’t need it.
When I’m at home I’m using my laptop on AC. That means I can safely remove the battery from it. I know many people who don’t do that, mainly because it’s a hassle. If you should ever bother to read the manual you’ll see that removing the battery is indeed the preferred way.
We’re wasting a lot of energy and resources with little crap like that. Maybe think about it a little and count the batteries in your devices. Stack them up and be amazed by the number.
Published on
December 8, 2007 in
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Zum dritten oder vierten Mal schlägt die Migration von Old-Home auf Linux fehl. Es lag wie immer daran, dass das Umschreiben der Brückenprogramme zuviel Zeit in Anspruch nimmt. Der Nutzen steht in keinem Verhältnis zu dem Aufwand.
Vielleicht ja 2008 .
Published on
December 8, 2007 in
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Having to work with software you hate on systems you dislike is bad already.
Getting software you hate to work on systems you like that are not designed to handle specific bad-written software is a torture.
To make it short: If you want to use dev-pascal on linux (why would you?) you have to resort to Wine, the Dev-Pascal setup and some “Tool” configurations that launch wineconsole with the parameters cmd and .
That’s just fricking great, isn’t it? You could, of course, also use the native FreePascal compiler and generate native executables that will run native on your desktop instead of the somewhat broken wineconsole (it doesn’t handle textBackground + clrScr properly, expected is that the background gets repainted in the color your specified, wineconsole doesn’t do that ).
But again… why would you?
Published on
December 6, 2007 in
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I didn’t notice until today but Aptana IDE has reached it’s 1.0 release. That’s great news because the IDE is perfect for web development.
Aptana is based on Eclipse so you can easily integrate it into your existing installation. It makes a great companion for those who don’t want to shell out hundreds of bucks for an great, graphical IDE ala Zend Studio.
Published on
December 2, 2007 in
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It is really nice to see the people around slowly trying alternative operating systems.
While koschmar is using Linux for about half a year now on a more or less frequent basis (or so I think ), Lupin just gave Ubuntu another go on his beloved, yet somewhat dated notebook. Perfect choice, it makes a great learning environment and thanks to Ubuntu’s big library of shipped firmware and drivers the standard kernel apparently works very good for him.
The world must be coming to it’s end because of that.
Talking about odds and ends: KDE 4 has been postponed. New release date will be 11th of January 2008. December was a dillusion anyway . Take your time and make it a good release instead of a speedy one.
Published on
December 1, 2007 in
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Most of the time when I’m working on my desktop machine I’m using KDE. I think it is the best choice when it comes to flexibility and features.
On my laptop though, I’m using GNOME. Reason’s simple, I don’t want to spend time on customizing applications and startups when GNOME has it all from the start.
I did copy parts of my home partition to my new laptop, obviously some KDE related stuff aswell. It didn’t bother me, until now.
I compiled a new GTK engine for a much darker theme and couldn’t help but notice that all elements except the window backgrounds were correct. The backgrounds were silver. Not so ideal for a dark theme, eh?
I pondered, why would it do that? My usual suspect is Ubuntu. Sorry, I’m like that. I had some funny bunny experience in the past with Ubuntu so I’m tempted to blame it for each and every of my problems on the notebook .
In this particular case though Ubuntu wasn’t at fault. My KDE settings were. As lady luck wanted it I had the custom configurations of the qt-pixmap engine left on my home partition which interfered with the GTK theme settings.
A quick rm -rf .gtkrc* resolved the issue.
Excuse me while I smack my head against a wall now.
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