tsclient no more in Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10
If you have to connect to Windows machines from time to time and have been an Ubuntu user like me, you most probably have been using tsclient to connect to it. But what I missed during the upgrade a couple of weeks ago was the fact that the previous Ubuntu standard tsclient has been removed. [...]
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Just read: «Night of the Living Trekkies»
During my vacation I read the first two books Game of Thrones (magnificent! I loved it! Now I finally can watch the TV show. ) and two Pratchetts, but Game of Thrones and Pratchett are known enough as it is. Something that I bet isn’t as widely known is the first book I read during [...]
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Netvault 8 & Ubuntu 10.04 64bit
Today I had to add a new server to our backup. It was the first 64bit installation of Ubuntu (10.04 LTS), because all the other virtual machines were still running 32bit. (Why? I cannot remember.) The backup system is a Netvault from BakBone, running on a Ubuntu 08.04 LTS 32bit. Two things I discovered today, [...]
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Ubuntu, Apparmor and moved home dirs
I got a new HDD recently and linked /home to a new partition mounted on /data/, /data/home/. Just like I did a dozen times before. Now a realized, that my pdf viewer evince (and surely some other programs) aren’t working anymore. Evince crashes with this error message: (evince:22792): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the [...]
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VDR hack: Stream video with synced audio
VDR streams very well with the streamdev-plugin, but only unicast http streams. That is usually no problem, because even 3 streams aren’t nearly too much for a normal 100Mbit home network and I wouldn’t need any more at home. But with the world cup starting tomorrow me and Karin are going to watch some games [...]
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Just read: Wil Wheatons «Dancing Barefoot»
After having read Wil Wheatons «Just a geek» (about which I wrote a week ago), I thought I’ll also read Wils first book «Dancing Barefoot». If you liked Just a geek, I bet you won’t be disappointed by its predecessor. But to be honest I liked Just a geek more, it felt more personal and [...]
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- tsclient no more in Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10
- Just read: «Night of the Living Trekkies»
- Llama: Location based profiles
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