Samsung ML-1610 on Debian GNU/Linux

I bought this printer a long time ago and it was connected to my Mac until that box died. I tried to install it once but never tried again after I didn’t get it to work in less than five minutes. Well, this time I did invest like ten minutes and it works just fine. (more…)

Using recordmydesktop to upload to YouTube, Vimeo etc.

recordMyDesktop is a great tool to make videos of what you’re doing with your computer. This can be very useful to demonstrate software features or to document workflows. By default, recordMyDesktop produces Ogg-Theora-Vorbis. If you want to share your files or upload them to a video site you’ll want to convert them to something more common. (more…)

Using git for WordPress development

git is a powerful revision control system. It is a distributed system. This means that you can commit, create branches or tags on your local hard drive without any network connection. Read more about git on the project’s website, there’s also great documentation there. (more…)

Canon Powershot A60 on Debian

Edit: This is a very old (2003) page of mine that needs a new location, and I think this blog is the best place.

I bought my camera at the end of april 2003 and after a few minutes of toying around i wanted to connect it to my favorite OS. I have been told that some of the stuff on this page will work with a powershot A70 or A75 too. (more…)

Filesystem with huge files cannot be mounted read-write without CONFIG_LBDAF

After skipping 2.6.30 and building a new 2.6.31 I suddenly couldn’t mount my ext4 drive anymore and got this rather confusing error in dmesg:

EXT4-fs (sda1): Filesystem with huge files cannot be mounted
read-write without CONFIG_LBDAF

But… I don’t have any huge files on that disk. Not bigger than some DVD iso anyway. (more…)

My favorite Firefox Add-ons

This is about the Firefox Add-ons I use. This really is a complete list, I like to keep my browser lean. I’m fully aware that most people will miss things like Adblock, Pixel perfect and greasemonkey, but I don’t use them. (more…)

Accents in xorg

Most of the time I’m a very happy vim user. Vim has superb support for inputting all kind of characters, see :help digraph and :digraphs. But from time to time I need to input accents etc. in other GUI apps. (more…)

PPC Mac partition oddity

I have an old Powerbook and wanted to mount a USB drive I formatted with it on a Linux box. The Linux computer had a custom kernel with mac partition support (CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION). Oddly, the kernel didn’t recognize the partitions on the drive. (more…)

Switching to Openbox

After a decade of windowmaker and fluxbox I’ve switched to openbox. I was motivated by the fact that some recent fluxbox upgrade left my decor-less urxvtcs visible on all desktops which was rather annoying. Somebody on irc suggested openbox, and after a few minutes I started to like it a lot! (more…)

Git clone, ssh: Could not resolve hostname

Now this was annoying. I tried a git clone ssh://user@my.host:/path/to/repository and it failed with

Initialized empty Git repository in /current/path/repository/.git/
ssh: Could not resolve hostname my.host:: Name or service not known
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

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