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- First Twitter, now Digg, a lot of websites switch from MySQL to a NoSQL alternative (Cassandra these cases). http://is.gd/ast7Q 10:25:57 AM March 13, 2010 from Gwibber
- Ubuntu finally has sort-of-working touchpad support for my MacBook in 10.04. Changing brightness doesn't work anymore though :( 08:27:22 PM March 12, 2010 from Gwibber
- Opera Mini for Android was released today. Seems pretty fast, I'll give it a try. http://bit.ly/aRDOZw 04:20:49 PM March 11, 2010 from Seesmic
- Ex-CEO of Sun can finally write about Steve Jobs' and Bill Gates' suing practices. http://bit.ly/bqasqX 05:49:20 PM March 10, 2010 from Seesmic
- Ubuntu keeps getting better. The new looks definitely make it more professional, although it looks a bit like Mac OS. http://bit.ly/aKWKlT 10:22:53 AM March 10, 2010 from Seesmic
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Howto: Live migrate to software RAID 1
Feel insecure about your data? Don’t trust your harddrive anymore? Use this howto to migrate your running Ubuntu Linux system to software RAID 1. Before starting off, I assume you have your running system on /dev/sda and your new harddrive is called /dev/sdb. Boot up your system and install the mdadm package. We now have to create partitions [...] -
Pinnacle DVB-T stick remote
Another post about that Pinnacle DVB-T stick? No, this one is about the remote! I wrote that the remote wasn’t completely working yet. Apparently, there is a driver for this remote or the stick that converts the buttons from the remote to “keyboard events”. Meaning I can type the number 0-9 with my remote for [...] -
Pinnacle DVB-T stick on Ubuntu Jaunty
Yesterday I decided to buy the Pinnacle DVB-T Stick (also known as Pinnacle TV Stick 72e) to watch some free-to-air channels. In the shop I searched on Google for Linux support, to make sure I didn’t have to return the product. The first few hits seemed positive (2 years ago), so I decided to take [...] -
Fixing FreeNX on Fedora 11
Today I had some problems getting FreeNX to work on Fedora 11. FreeNX is a VNC-like system that has much better performance than VNC itself. It is therefore very usefull if you would like to access your computer via your Cable or ADSL connection. After installing FreeNX in Fedora, whenever I connected, I got some strange [...] -
Using GNU screen as virtmanager for KVM
After my last post about KVM, somebody emailed me, asking how I use KVM’s serial console in combination with screen. It’s a rather simple, but really usefull solution if you think tools like virtmanager are too much for you and you don’t like to use VNC. So this post will try to explain it to [...] -
Testing Ubuntu Jaunty with UXA
I’ve been testing Ubuntu Jaunty for a few weeks now and after using it for a day or two, my memory filled up. Recently I found out that this was caused by Compiz. Apparently if you use UXA with the new Intel drivers, Compiz will start to leak memory. After only 8 hours of usage, [...]