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Microsoft user
I’ve been a user of Microsoft products for some time now. No, I didn’t install their operating system on my workstation of course. But I started to use their Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000 wireless keyboard + mouse set. When looking for an ergonomic wireless keyboard several months ago I’ve found that the Natural 7000 set […]
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Printer calibration
Some time ago I’ve finally managed to get my Epson R220 printer somewhat calibrated. Standard Gutenprint drivers suffer from strong green cast on this printer and I wasn’t successful to get it corrected directly in Gutenprint. Trying to play with the driver color settings has led me only to other problems, replacing one kind of […]
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From qmail to Exim
We have moved from qmail to Exim recently on our company mail server. It is a big relief. The mail server can handle the high amount of incoming junk mail now, it is reasonably manageable and provides readable logs. It was late transfer. It is not easy to move a mail server to a completely […]
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Scanning films with flatbed and film scanners
Film scanners are often claimed to be superior to flatbed scanners when scanning 35 mm films. The harder thing is to find actual facts supporting such claims. Actually it’s possible to find samples suggesting there is no significant difference between the scanners. And even Minolta was able to find the only relevant argument for film […]
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Moving to git
Well, I switch the revision control system I use for the third time during last years. When I decided to try something else than CVS, I started with GNU arch. This was a good choice as GNU arch made a good basis of modern free software revision control systems. Unfortunately problems in GNU arch development […]
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Installing pdaXrom
Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000 is shipped with its own Linux operating system based on Qtopia. The system is not bad, it is stable and although it requires some updates to become really usable, it provides nice PDA environment covering many areas of use. But it suffers of some problems: it’s incompatible (as it uses Qtopia instead […]
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Memory hogs on my computer
My first X Window workstation ran pretty will with just 8 MB RAM. Nowadays even 2 GB RAM (i.e. 256 times as much) is not enough for personal use. My workstation runs 24/7, so I sometimes check what consumes all the memory capacity. I can usually identify the following processes being the cause: Firefox 2. […]
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Civil engineering and free software
I’ve recently looked for free software related to civil engineering. To my surprise there is probably not any. There are several projects that could potentially be used in civil engineering but none of them is directly usable for that purpose. For example 2D drawing tools may be good enough for electrical or mechanical engineering but […]
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So they crippled another webshop
I don’t understand why webshops put so much effort into making buying goods in them more difficult. My favorite hardware shop used to be ALFA COMPUTER, one of the reasons I liked them being their simple and well arranged web pages. That’s gone now. They’ve recently introduced new web pages. The worst thing in them […]
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Scanning software
Scanning software should deliver maximum information in the best possible form. It’s not necessary to avoid further processing, but it’s important to keep it possible and to perform processing steps that can be made automatically without losing important information. Choosing right scanning tools is important as mistakes in this process may result in the necessity […]