sending images from picasa with thunderbird
May 8th, 2008
Using thunderbird to sending images from picasa does not work per default. A little script is needed.
1. Create this file
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/opt/picasa/bin/picasa-hook-email.sh
umlaute with X
May 8th, 2008
To use german Umlaute (i.e. ä, ö, ü, and ß) with an american keyboard you have to patch Xmodmap.
Before you can edit the xmodmap, you need to identify the right code for each. This can be done with xev which prints contents of X events.
Run
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xev
to see a key code for a certain, press this key and xev will show the code.
These codes can now be stored into your home dir into
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~/.Xmodmap
Mine looks like this
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keycode 227 = Mode_switch
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keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis
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keycode 30 = u U udiaeresis Udiaeresis
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keycode 32 = o O odiaeresis Odiaeresis
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keycode 39 = s S ssharp
Script to install multiple mediawiki instances
March 13th, 2008
Once the number of installations becomes greater than one, I have to face two problems:
- repeat the installation process
- keep each installation up-to-date
Connect from Linux machine to VPN with proprietary Windows Client
February 14th, 2008
Boy, that proprietary software stuff sucks. My company offers VPN into the company network. Which is nice if you want to work from home. What's not so nice: the client is windows only. It's a "Check Point VPN-1 SecureClient". Since Check Point stopped supporting linux there is no way to get into the network. But wait, actually there is. With a bit of tweaking, major inconveniences and a lot of traffic overhead I can still access the VPN from my linux box.
Our ingredients are
- a virtual machine (guest) with a windows installation
- an ssh server on the host machine
- putty on the guest
You see, there is already a lot of infrastructural overhead involved. Now what am I up to? Here is the plan
Flip Rows and Columns in OpenOffice
February 13th, 2008
To swap rows and columns
1. select the rows and columns you want to flip
2. copy the selection
3. go to Edit -> Paste Special -> Options and check "Transpose"
4. click on OK
By the way, this also works with Excel.
Enjoy
Can’t allocate interface atlease
February 1st, 2008
After a recent update of my dhcp3 package I could not perform dhcp requests anymore and got the following error message
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Can't allocate interface atlease {
interface .
Failed to bring up ath0.
OpenOffice: Change language of existing document
January 27th, 2008
1. Select the entire document content.
ctrl+a
2. Change the language of the selection.
Format -> Character -> Language
This should allow you to do the spellcheck in the language of your choice.
Add new language to debian system
January 23rd, 2008
1. add the language code line to /etc/locales.gen
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
2. call
dpkg-reconfigure locales
You may need to restart your window manager for the new languages to take effect.
Each user can pick his language for its window manager of choice from the installed languages during the login.
Latex for Debian
January 23rd, 2008
New to debian and looking for Latex? Run
apt-get install texlive
Let package speak for itself.
Make OpenOffice installation look pretty
January 22nd, 2008
I installed OpenOffice on my debian+gnome system but it looked so ugly. The trick is to install the tango-theme for oo
apt-get install openoffice.org-gnome tango-icon-theme