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Awesome-o-Tron!

This is so awesome. Would be even better if it could change color… or maybe it does 🙂

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My NAS Part 01 – Cooking something up

This series of posts will follow along as I build my very own NAS. In this first part I’ll talk about some of the things that happened up to this point. As clever readers of my blog probably noticed already … Continue reading

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Anger Management

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 — “Don’t shout at your JBODs, they don’t like it!”

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Howto: Run Vector Magic Desktop Edition with Wine

Vector Magic is pretty cool. I loved the project back in the days when everyone could use it for free and was happy to see that they started providing a desktop client after going commercial. Even better: The client is … Continue reading

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Howto: Fix Wuala’s Copy & Paste on Linux

If you’re using a recent KDE version you’ll notice that Wuala’s Copy & Paste feature doesn’t really seem to work anymore. Instead of using the contents you specify within the application (say, files and folders) it’ll always use the contents … Continue reading

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Good Service

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Wuala Web Downloads

Wow, now that’s quite an update. Now you can download public files as well as password-protected files from the web. Share all your stuff with friends around the world in a safe, quick way. Great stuff that makes Wuala even … Continue reading

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Using the Wuala API .net wrapper for quick in-folder search

An interesting question that came up to me was how to implement a quick, efficient in-folder search engine with the .net wrapper. Of course, by it’s nature this isn’t a given feature and because you’d have to enumerate through all … Continue reading

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Fixing mouse issues with VirtualPC -> VMware images

Microsoft often delivers free-to-test disk images of their products (like, for instance, the new Visual Studio 2010 CTP). These images are – who would have expected that? – in Microsoft’s own VirtualPC format. Luckily, the specs for the disk format … Continue reading

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Visual Studio 2008 Essentials

Despite all my bickering, Visual Studio 2008 is great. It was well worth the money to upgrade. There are a few things missing from the Professional version, though. The lack of a powerful profiler for everyone still makes me shake … Continue reading

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GTA IV for PC

I think I just spent more time in Windows than the last 2 years together. GTA IV is fun, easy as that. I don’t know why people keep nagging at the game, it’s great and just what I’d expect of … Continue reading

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Public SVN access is back

Okay, I admit… it’s not quite “back” but more like “resurrected”. I re-setup the entire server and suddenly it works again. Currently there’s not much for guest users to checkout, though. The Wuala API Wrapper sourcecode can be obtained from … Continue reading

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Wildcard Subdomains with Apache

To add a wildcard domain (i.e. *.subdomain.mydomain.domain) all you really need to do is set up a new vhost in the Apache config and use the matching ServerName and ServerAlias: ServerName subdomain.mydomain.domain ServerAlias *.subdomain.mydomain.domain That’s it, you can easily utilize … Continue reading

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Stopping Sweetcron from breaking with too long posts

Okay, now this is really really bad, starting with MySQL 5 there is a strict mode. What does that mean? The strict mode will not silently swallow all your data and just cut off what’s left but throw an exception … Continue reading

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WordPress 2.7

Gee, there I am, not updating my installation for ages and now I’m wandering the path of nightly-builds again. WordPress 2.7 is amazing. The new interface not only looks great but also offers a lot: You can collapse your toolbar … Continue reading

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