Samsung ML-1610 on Debian GNU/Linux

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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.

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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…)

Canon Powershot A60 on Debian

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

A productive Desktop with two terminals

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…)

Using any Debian box as a wireless access point

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I just lost an hour trying to configure a Thinkpad T41 as a wireless access point. Most of that time was due to problems with the built-in wlan interface and a kernel recompile to use a prism54-based PCMCIA card. This is mostly a post to remind myself what to do, and how to do it on Debian. It’s not the first time I create an access point, but I do it so infrequently that I always forget something. (more…)

mp3gain, normalizing and other things

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Recently my band made some recordings with a Zoom H2 Digital Recorder. Awesome machine btw. But it turned out that the recording wasn’t loud enough. I probably messed something up when I configured it… (more…)