Author Archives: Tsukasa

About Tsukasa

The fool's herald.

Using T-Online’s Call & Surf Comfort Plus? Free Hotspots!

Posted on 2008-09-11 by Tsukasa

Wowzers, today I was waiting at the trainstation for my next ride home when I decided to power-on my notebook and scan for open wireless networks. T-Mobile obviously had one in range, I immediatly connected (hoping for free cookies, but … Continue reading →

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Restarting your WRT54GL per cron

Posted on 2008-09-10 by Tsukasa

Gee, sometimes I really want to push my router down a cliff: It runs out of memory and generally slow. Automatic reboot sounds like a good idea there… Just add this as a startup script to reboot the router at … Continue reading →

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Using vi as hex editor

Posted on 2008-09-09 by Tsukasa

There are many things vi can do, for instance invoke other commands to process files. That’s pretty cool. Since installing Okteta isn’t always an option, here’s a small snippet on how to work simple capabilities into vi: vi -b myfile … Continue reading →

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Autohiding Panels in KDE 4.2

Posted on 2008-09-06 by Tsukasa

It’s been possible for some time now to auto-hide panels. Now you don’t even need to mess in the configuration files anymore — thanks to a new panel settings menu. Absolutely awesome. I have to say that I can’t really … Continue reading →

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Making the NX Client portable

Posted on 2008-09-02 by Tsukasa

NX is great. I’m deeply in love with it. Sometimes it’s acting like a real jerk, though. The NX Web Companion is installing a lot of crap into the active user’s profile. The NX client writes stuff in the active … Continue reading →

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Bleh

Posted on 2008-09-01 by Tsukasa

Seems Defensio kind of blocked more than I initially intended by simply crashing and throwing all comments down the pipe. Until the problem is sorted out, I’ve simply disabled the plugin completely. Sorry for the inconvenience. On a bright note: … Continue reading →

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The Tale of How

Posted on 2008-08-31 by Tsukasa

An incredible beautiful video. I’m a sucker for things like that 🙂 .

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New nVidia Linux driver speeds things up

Posted on 2008-08-20 by Tsukasa

The end of the world must be near: nVidia released a new version of their GNU/Linux driver that fixes some of the annoyances regarding RENDER performance. Given you apply some manual adjustments to the configuration the new driver performs in … Continue reading →

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Fixing the “null” date problem in WordPress

Posted on 2008-08-19 by Tsukasa

If you’ve been a constant reader of my blog (and of course I know you are 😉 ) you could hardly have missed the ugly “0” date in the archives. Turns out that this 0 date was caused by all … Continue reading →

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Making Cygwin portable

Posted on 2008-08-19 by Tsukasa

One of the very packages I always install when I have to work with Windows is Cygwin. Being able to use my beloved GNU tools really makes things easier. Often I don’t have the option to install it. I grieved … Continue reading →

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Building recent Mplayer SVN + CoreAVC For Linux

Posted on 2008-08-19 by Tsukasa

As Michael points out there’s a slight problem with the CoreAVC For Linux patchset that enable Mplayer to take advantage of CoreCodec’s h.264 decoder — with recent changes in the sourcecode the old build_patch.pl script doesn’t produce usable output anymore. … Continue reading →

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About music

Posted on 2008-08-14 by Tsukasa

Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays. — Oscar Wilde

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Wuala goes beta, Badges to celebrate

Posted on 2008-08-14 by Tsukasa

Along with the public beta of Wuala there’s also a new website. Aside from the plethora of new information, a feature to install/launch Wuala straight from the browser and mucho polished bling, Caleido offers a few badges to advertise Wuala … Continue reading →

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K kk kk K kK

Posted on 2008-08-10 by Tsukasa

The internet makes you stupid.

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Nice global environment variable additions

Posted on 2008-07-26 by Tsukasa

Since my vacation is coming to an end I thought I’d leave a nice little trick on how to administrate a number of environment variable additions for all users on the system. Sure, there is the /etc/environment file but it … Continue reading →

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