Category: IT
-
I love my internet connection
I have my internet connection through a community network called Bryggenet, which serves a part of Copenhagen with internet, cable and telephony services. The connection is a shared 62Mbit/s line, brought to my house through a 100Mbit/s network 25 september 2004, 09:50 $ apt-get update Fetched 9470kB in 3s (2420kB/s) $ apt-get dist-upgrade Need to…
-
Nautilus: where do you want to go today?
The new spatial nautilus is generally nice, but sometimes the mime type detection messes up. This time I had an sftp: location open, where I have a symlink to another folder on the remote server. First the symlink is shown as a file of an unknown type, but when I double click on it to…
-
OpenOffice.org won’t print with CUPS anymore
For some reason oowriter has decided it doesn’t want to print with CUPS anymore. I had set up CUPS_SERVER to point to my home server, so I wouldn’t need to maintain a print setup on our laptops, and every other application prints nicely, but OOo. In the print dialog the two CUPS printers are there,…
-
GNU Emacs and UTF-8 locale
I recently wanted to shift to a UTF-8 locale, because I wanted to play with stuff like writing in Arabic, and because it seems to be the road forward. So I switched and GNU Emacs starts to enter garbage in my buffers. I type “æøåÆØÅ éÀ“, but Emacs gives me “æøåÃÃà éÃÂ⬓. Ever so slightly…
-
Old stuff moving over here
I’m moving most of my old Linux related material over here, to have it all in a single location. Since the material is old, I backdate the pages so they won’t appear on the front page. Currently migrated are: Linux on Asus L8400 laptops Linux on Olivetti Echos laptops
-
Using the Mail led with remote mail
I recently switched all my mail reading over to using IMAP over SSL, and needed to get GNOME’s Inbox Monitor applet to handle it. It doesn’t do it natively, so I had to use a script to do the check. It is done easily with fetchmail. I have found a way to use the extra…