Amarok 2 and gnome
Using Ubuntu 9.04 the new Amarok 2 stopped working. Some tries showed that Internet Radio is still fully functional. Some search offers many tricks and tweaks but none of them helped. At the end it...
View ArticleGrab DV avis on Linux
Just a little note, how to grab dv avis on Linux. dvgrab -format dv2 -opendml -size 0-showstatus If your System is not configured properly you perhaps need to be either root or to make it accessible...
View ArticleInstall a MSI US300EX Lite on Ubuntu
Update This tutorial has stopped working for me but now I got some hints from other readers of my blog. It seems that one has to load the proper firmware first, but I will investigate this...
View ArticleSamsung F3 benchmark
Because of my fast NAS I realized that I can't get the full performance out of my workstation because my hardisk is to slow. So I decided to buy a new cheap 1TB drive for it. I searched a bit around...
View ArticleHow to record audio from command line?
Audacity was instable and is just crashing after some seconds without any error. Thus I want to use a program similiar to dvgrab and found arecord. If you configured ALSA properly through your favorite...
View ArticleLinux and it's pseudo professional backup tools
Until today I don't know how many hours I spent into investigating how to make my backups reliable. Because I need to process several hundreds of gigabytes really every free backup solution available...
View ArticleFixing atmail at Plesk 10
Just had the problem that after some updates users can't login anymore at the atmail webmail system of the a plesk managed server. Searching around the web I found the following solution which worked...
View ArticleFixing default Plesk courier mail settings
By default a Courier IMAP configured server only allows 4 connections per IP which causes usually a lot of problems with nearly every eMail client, causing for example the following exception:Unable to...
View ArticleBluecove on ARM
Just needed a ARM compiled version of Bluecove 2.1.0 for Java+Bluez Bluetooth support. This version is known to work on a GuruPlug with ARM5 compatible CPU and Debian. Perhaps this binary is also...
View ArticleFixing around plesk "php_admin_value open_basedir"
Just upgrading to Plesk 11.09, has broken my web server setup. Because of some special resource sharing, I need to include a lib folder for every vhost domain, which does not work any more with the new...
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