Skype on Ubuntu AMD64
It’s not the most fancy solution I’ve seen but it gets the work done. I started by visiting the Skype Knowledgebase but that’s just a thin collection of questions with very short answers. However, they...
View ArticlePlan of open 3D game development
For the last couple of days I’ve been looking around for open-source 3D engines, comparing and reading. This is an early step in my crazy plans of making an open 3D game. If the game ever will be...
View ArticleFreeDB to MySQL parser
Ever got curious on something and then you’re unable to let it go until you’ve tried it out? Thought so. For me it started with the extracting of the FreeDB archive. What a beast! You start with a...
View ArticleNice printer
Today I finally changed the cartridge in my HP LaserJet 1200. The cartridge, part number C7115A, gave up after not less than 5158 pages. The C7115A will cover 2,500 pages at 5% so I’m very pleased with...
View ArticleSet up HP Color LaserJet 2600n using CUPS
As I wrote earlier I’ve changed the cartridge in my old HP LaserJet 1200. Unfortunately the cartridge was broken so I get something that looks like brushstrokes across all pages, caused by the drum....
View ArticleDiablo 3 by Blizzard
It is now announced that there will be a Diablo 3. I must say, that for a while I was in doubt due to the width of World of WarCraft, that it in a way resembles the Diablo series. Luckily I was wrong....
View ArticleConfigure pure-ftpd in Debian
Currently there is a lack of good documentation about how to configure pure-ftpd in Debian and Ubuntu. It’s easy to find information about the command-line flags for pure-ftpd but in Debian you are...
View Articleffmpeg and h.264 in Debian Lenny
Ever tried to transcode into H.264 using ffmpeg in Debian Lenny just to end up with this message Unknown encoder ‘libx264′ Here is how you solve the problem: Download the debian-multimedia-keyring...
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Imagick resize filter comparison using PHP
For some time I’ve been using GD lib for generating thumbnails. The solution was never satisfying since you need different functions to output different image formats. For some reason the...
View ArticleISO to MKV in Linux
First mount the ISO-file: # mkdir /mnt/dvdiso # mount -o loop -t iso9660 my.iso /mnt/dvdiso/ Now, to get some information about the media in the ISO-file: $ mplayer -dvd-device /mnt/dvdiso/ dvd://0 -vo...
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