29. January 2010
by Christoph
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Sometimes you need to record a telephone call, e.g. when you do a interview via phone and create an audio-blog afterwards. The Skype Call Recorder is a simple program to do this, it is a little tool to record the … Continue reading
6. October 2009 by Christoph | 41 Comments
For many people the time to boot up their system is quite essential. Every second counts. Especially when it comes to comparisons of operation systems, 5 seconds less waiting seems to proof that one system is better that another… Well Mark Shuttleworth announced for Karmic further improvement on the boot time, and it looks like the Ubuntu developers did a good job.
On YouTube there’s a video which shows two (nearly) identical laptops. One runs Ubuntu Ubuntu Karmic Koala Alpha 2 and the other one uses Windows 7 RC. The windows system uses a Intel Core2 Duo Mobile T7250 which runs at 2Ghz where as the Ubuntu system only has a T7100 with 1.8Ghz.
24. September 2009
by Christoph
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Version after version Canonical promised a new look for Ubuntu, but since Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 the desktop appearance didn’t change much. A couple of polished icons here and there, a new slightly different wallpaper with every release, but nothing … Continue reading
8. August 2009
by Christoph
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Dropbox evolves slowly step by step. Until now Dropbox clients could either up- or download data to/from dropbox. But they couldn’t sync files between computers inside a LAN. This will change with future releases and if you’re interested you can … Continue reading
22. May 2009
by Christoph
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A mean bug/phenomenon took an hour of free time from me and create some headache… I tried to use partimage to make a backup of a hard disk I salvaged from an old computer. Since there is no package for … Continue reading
16. May 2009
by Christoph
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A couple of days ago I had to create a single PDF out of a bunch of single paged PDF documents. There are a couple of of tools out there like pdftk which can do the job, but a graphical … Continue reading
25. April 2009
by Christoph
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Today Bryce Harrington of Ubuntu announced on the Ubuntu Developer the following info… A little Jaunty Release Day present from the Ubuntu-X team. From past releases, we know that often people want a way to try out newer drivers than … Continue reading
23. April 2009
by Christoph
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I’m using Ubuntu Jaunty since a couple of weeks and the longer I’m using the new version, the more nice things I find. One is the on going integration of PolicyKit into GNOME. The following use-case was until Jaunty pretty … Continue reading
31. March 2009
by Christoph
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How do you call it to install the beta of a new operating system inside the beta of a virtual machine based on the beta of a new operating system? Yep: Stupid! So, don’t try this at home… A couple … Continue reading
20. March 2009
by Christoph
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Google introduced this feature in Google Chrome and Mozilla will include it in Firefox 3.5. Webbrowsers with a “anonymous mode” – some people will call it “porn mode” – where no personal information is saved – are sexy… Fans of … Continue reading