Monthly Archives: May 2007

reCAPTCHA

Posted on May 30, 2007 by martijn

Captcha’s are a known tool to block comment-spammers on blogs or to stop bots from filling using web registration forms. About 60 million CAPTCHA’s are solved around the world every day. The Carnegy Mellon University offers a free reCAPTCHA service, … Continue reading →

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Grub recovery

Posted on May 29, 2007 by martijn

Need to recover your Grub bootloader after Windows has overwritten the MBR on a dualboot system? Here’s the howto in a few quick steps. boot from a Linux LiveCD like one of these. type ‘sudo grub’ to open the grub … Continue reading →

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Flickr pro account

Posted on May 22, 2007 by martijn

Hooked myself up with a Flickr Pro account. Almost stashed and organised all my digital pictures. The 100MB a month limitation of a free flickr account just don’t cut it, considering that the average size of a picture my camera … Continue reading →

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A Bluetooth Cell Phone as a Proximity Card on SUSE Linux

Posted on May 22, 2007 by martijn

Here’s a nice description on how to use a Bluetooth Cell Phone as a Proximity Card on Linux. It’s written for SUSE Linux but also includes a link to a Ubuntu description. Set this up, and your laptop or desktop … Continue reading →

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F-Spot as default photo import tool in Ubuntu

Posted on May 20, 2007 by martijn

When you plug in a digital camera on an Ubuntu system, Gthumb is the default tool to import your shots. I prefer F-Spot over Gthumb because of the tagging and webexport functions. To change this default setting to use F-Spot … Continue reading →

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(Sync)Evolution and Google Calendar

Posted on May 18, 2007 by martijn

With Evolution it is possible to use a Google Calendar as a read-only webcalendar. To get some 2-way action between the calendars of Evolution en Google, some extra work needs to be done. I managed to get things working using … Continue reading →

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openSUSE 10.3 Alpha4

Posted on May 16, 2007 by martijn

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha4 is available for download! get it or check out what’s new.http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News

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Tidy up!

Posted on May 16, 2007 by martijn

Maybe it’s around for longer, but I saw this for the first time in Ubuntu 7.04. GNOME (2.18) prompts to empty the Trash (.Trash_user directory) on removable storage when umounting these. Now this is a good way for preventing a … Continue reading →

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Dutch Google SoC alternative

Posted on May 13, 2007 by martijn

The Holland Open Software Platform starts a Dutch alternative to the Google Summer of Code.http://www.programmeerzomer.nl/

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Liberation fonts

Posted on May 12, 2007 by martijn

As an alternative to some popular Windows fonts, RedHat has released their ‘Liberation fonts‘. There are three sets: Sans (a substitute for Arial, Albany, Helvetica,Nimbus Sans L, and Bitstream Vera Sans), Serif (a substitute for TimesNew Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, … Continue reading →

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