Oleg Lohnes Revitaler® /// Gesundheit Tips

Oleg Lohnes Revitaler®Leistungsfähigkeit steigern mit dem Oleg Lohnes Revitaler (4/6)Wir waren am 22. 6. zu einer Gesundheitsmesse in Eberswalde. Dort konnte man viel sehen und sich informieren, viele Stände, auch Johanniter, AWO, Bio und @.Was uns begeistert [...]

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New Intel Xorg Driver Released

It seems the intel driver in the Ubuntu repositories is still pretty old. You can download a new one from their website, though and install it manually.I wish there was an updated package available for hardy. You can probably use the intrepid package [...]

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Fix for Memory Leak in Ubuntu's NetworkManager

The nasty memory leak in NetworkManager, existing since gutsy times I believe, is finally fixed in the intrepid packages. The bug fixed version 0.6.6-0ubuntu7 is not yet uploaded it seems, but should appear at the intrepid packages link soon.Correction: [...]

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Read Copy Update Preemption

I switched on the RCU Preemption in the Linux 2.6.25.7 kernel and suddenly noticed stuttering video-playback in mplayer. Seems that sometimes it didn't get its data in time anymore. After I added the -cache 4096 parameter, it was fixed. But I really [...]

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How To Keep Brown Sugar Soft

How To Keep Brown Sugar SoftThe best ways to keep brown sugar soft are as follows:Store brown sugar in a glass jar or other glass container.Add a piece of apple in with the brown sugar when storing.Add a piece of bread into the container where you store [...]

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b43 broadcom wireless driver

I really wish the b43 driver would work better... I keep losing the connection after a certain time. It is much better in 2.6.25.7 than in 2.6.26.6, but it's still disappointing to keep having to remove and reinsert the module to stay online. I'm really [...]

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Better Process Monitoring with htop

htop is a much nicer alternative to top, as you can configure it much easier and more interactive. It also has bars for cpu, mem and swap usage for a better overvi [...]

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Locking your Screen with dbus from the command line in Gnome, KDE4 and others.

dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver --type=method_call \ --print-reply /ScreenSaver org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.LockThis will work with KDE4 and should as well work with newer Gnome versions. Tested with KDE 4.1 beta1. [...]

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bios upgrade leads to resume problems

I could not resume from standby anymore after upgrading the bios on my notebook. Turns out I just had to reset the hard disk password in the BIOS settings. The BIOS somehow forgot to unlock the hard disk during resume after the update. Removing it and [...]

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Finding dbus targets made easy

I have been looking for a tool to display dbus targets for a while...It's called qdbusviewer and comes with the package qt4-dev-tools. I found it in this howto save your current session in kd [...]

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How to Help with Linux Kernel Development

"Please do contribute to Linux, and a great way of doing that is to test latest mainline or linux-next or -mm and to report on any problems which you encounter. Nothing special is needed - just install it on as many machines as you dare and use [...]

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How To Make Hummingbird Food - Homemade Recipe

How To Make Hummingbird Food - Homemade RecipeIf you want to make hummingbird food for the hummingbirds visiting your backyard feeders then this simple homemade recipe is exactly what you need.Hummingbird Food Ingredients1 - Cup Water1/4 - Cup SugarBring [...]

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Opera Speed running under Windows and Linux

I've installed Opera 9.5. It's really nice and I'm actually writing this entry with it right now. But then because of unfortunate resume problems after a BIOS upgrade with my Acer notebook, I've installed and tried the new version in Windows as well.And [...]

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Fotos

Juni 2008 in Nienhagen und Bad Male [...]

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Wunderschöne Pferde

Wunderschöne Pferde in Kühungsborn (am Ostrand zu bewundern).---------------------------------------------------------------Garantiert mehr Lebensqualität:Egal, was hier steht, Sie wollen etwas ändern?Unsere Lösung, auch [...]

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Compare Dmesg Output between boots

First remove the timing information from the dmesg with a sed Regular expression:cat dmesg.txt| sed -r s/'\[[ ]*[0-9]+[.][0-9]+\]'//g > dmesg-clean.txtOf course you can skip this step if you care about the timing information.Then compare two kernel [...]

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Linux ACPI Issues

If you should ever get into problems with Linux ACPI, these kernel parameters might help you for a quick fix.hpet=disablenohz=offacpi=noirq acpi=htpci=noacpipnpacpi=offnoapicnolapicacpi=off disable_8254_timer acpi_os_name="Microsoft Windows" # Linux [...]

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Optimize PNGs

OptiPNG is a cool little program to optimize png graphics in size. You can further optimize the size with advpng from the package advancecomp.E.g. optipng -q -o5 scummvm00000.bmpadvpng -z -4 scummvm00000.png901k bmp -> 40k png -> 36k png. Lossless.And [...]

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How Corn Gluten Meal Works

How Corn Gluten Meal WorksCorn Gluten Meal (CGM) is a by-product of the corn wet milling process that contains the protein fragment of the corn. Patented in 1991 by researchers at Iowa State University, Corn gluten meal is considered a non-toxic natural [...]

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Milk just like barium based drink

Cost-Effectiveness and Patient Tolerance of Low-Attenuation Oral Contrast Material: Milk Versus VoLumen -- Koo et al. 190 (5): 1307 -- American Journal of RoentgenologyFor years, countless people have had to force down about 1,200 cc of a barium contrast [...]

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KDE4 Kwin Desktop Effects Howto

If you wonder, just as I just did, what the different options in the Advanced section of System Settings: Desktop: Desktop Effects: Advanced Options in KDE4 means, here is the answer:OpenGL is the fastest solution as it uses your graphics card's 3d acceleration [...]

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Opera+Intel X Shared Memory Problem Fixed

It turns out it is an issue in the X driver. Thanks to develcuy for the fix! You simply change the accelaration mode from EXA to XAA in the xorg.conf file:in /etc/X11/xorg.confyou insert inSection "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Option [...]

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Plasma SHM Memory Leak + plasma Tip, kquitapp

It seems plasma leaks into x shared memory. This would explain why I had such a high value xrestop. After I restarted X it was down to only around 6 MB. It's funny but I don't even really notice these things anymore now that I have 2 GB RAM. I wonder [...]

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Xorg growing bigger and bigger?

If you find out that Xorg grows bigger and bigger with time, chances are high that this is not actually Xorg, but a program that uses its pixmap cache.xrestop will tell you just that. It lists the applications by how much pixmap cache they use. Mine [...]

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Ubuntu Remix

Check out the new Ubuntu Remix and its special user interfa [...]

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KDE4 Eye Candy

To use the KDE4 eye candy, you don't have to do much. You can activate the effects under System Settings and Desktop. Then you go to All effects and activate cover switch. I really like how it displays the windows while flipping through them with alt-tab.You [...]

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Plasma Development Resources

Thanks to some nice KDE developers I now have some more plasma development resources:http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasmahttp://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdebase-workspace-apidocs/libs/plasma/html/index.htmlThe panel-devel mailing list and irc: #plasma [...]

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KDE Bugsquat

I just found out there is a KDE Bugsquat.&nb [...]

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Tracing System Calls

If you want to know what exactly a program is doing, e.g. to find out why it's using 50% cpu right now, you can use the strace command:strace -r -fF -T -p `pidof someprogram`As always, you can find out more about the usage with man strace. It often does [...]

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Phoronix Compile Benchmarks

Processor: Intel Celeron M 530 @ 1.72GHz (Total Cores: 1) "2008..."Processor: Intel Celeron 2.60GHz @ 2.62GHz (Total Cores: 1) "compilation"Processor: AMD Phenom 9850 @ 2.50GHz (Total Cores: 4) "0001"Processor: Intel Core [...]

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[fix] High Wakeups draining battery power with KDE 4.1 beta 1

There is some issue related to knotify4, which causes around 100 wakes / second to show up in powertop. It looks like there have already been issues with KDE 4.0.x and there has been improvements since. But it's still too much for notebook use.The suggested [...]

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Better Bug Reports in English

If you get an error in a program and you want to report the exact error, but in English, this short line helps a lotLANG= apt-get install [...]

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KDE 4.1 Beta 1 Update

I just finished the very basic work of my first very own plasmoid. It's pretty fun and very low on resources. KDE4 still crashes a lot. Ktorrent crashed while exiting, When the main panel is removed, there is a crash. And when you put the panel [...]

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How To Care for Wicker Furniture

How To Care for Wicker FurnitureThe best way to care for wicker furniture is to regularly dust it with a horsehair brush. If you spill any liquids on your wicker furniture clean them as quickly as possibly with warm water mixed with a little dish detergent. [...]

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Detect and Counter ARP Poisoning under Windows and Linux

It is nowadays simply too easy to manipulate network traffic. There is for example a Chinese Software called Netsense, which makes it so easy, smooth and effortless, the people using it really might not even know it's using [...]

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KDE 4.1 Beta 1

I just downloaded and tried KDE4.1 Beta 1 for Ubuntu. It's got some quirks still, but it really rocks. It's very beautiful and smooth.You see the desktops with some widgets: Notes, Dictionary, Slideshow, Fuzzy Clock(pretty [...]

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Check it your ISP throttles P2P traffic

Researchers at the German Max Planck Institute for Software Systems put together a website that tells you which ISPs are throttlinghas a test for ISP bittorrent throttlingand gives other people's bittorrent throttling test results with IS [...]

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Protect Files

If you want to make sure a file or directory structure can not be modified by anyone, this command helps:sudo chattr +i [...]

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