November 20th, 2009 at 10:00am |
Mozilla Lightning calendar extension for Thunderbird 3 64bit x64 x86_64 can be found here: http://www.secudb.de/~seuffert/mozilla
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November 17th, 2009 at 1:33pm |
You may be wondering why despite your preference settings Firefox 3.5 still keeps in memory the browsing history pages visited way back in the past. This despite settings in Preferences -> Privacy menu.
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October 31st, 2009 at 10:58am |
On linux to convert from PDF to DJVU you can use pdf2djvu
sudo apt-get install pdf2djvu
then type
pdf2djvu -o output.djvu imput.pdf
useful options are
–monochrome
–lossy
-d NNN (where NNN is the desired page resolution)
To convert from DJVU to PDF you can use djview4
sudo apt-get install djview4
then in menu File -> Export -> as PDF
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October 25th, 2009 at 6:09am |
You may wish to get rid of some templates in the contextual menu in KDE. The best practice would be removing the package installing those templates, however this is not always possible due to dependency problems.
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October 16th, 2009 at 6:52am |
Chinese PeraPeraKun is an extremely handy tool for aiding reading Chinese web pages.
Mozilla Firefox version 3.5 is supported only with an experimental build, however PeraPeraKun author’s website, where you can find this build, is hosted on wordpress.com which is not accessible from China. Furthermore most of the tricks used to bypass the block are incompatible [...]
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October 14th, 2009 at 11:29am |
If you are willing to buy a tablet for drawing, photo editing, writing, or simply having fun I strongly advise you to only focus on Wacom tablets. Despite not providing official support for linux that company actively supports linux open source driver development and is also eager to provide assistance for linux users. At the [...]
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October 14th, 2009 at 10:37am |
If you wish to write chinese or japanese characters you usually have to rely on IME engines through typing pinyin or equivalent.
There are however three projects out there that can ease things a lot, letting you write those characters simply with a pen and/or a tablet: Tomoe, Tegaki and Zinnia.
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October 8th, 2009 at 11:09am |
Mozilla Lightning and Sunbird calendar events files are located in (linux, M$ windows)
.mozilla/thunderbid/storage.sdb
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Sunbird\Profiles\[gibberish].default\storage.sdb
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October 8th, 2009 at 10:43am |
In this post I’ll try tomerge all the different approaches to convert any document format to PDF in linux
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October 8th, 2009 at 10:26am |
Firefox can be heavily customized through about:config page (just type it in the address bar)
There are entries (one per line) that handle various types of configurations. Each entry has a searchable keyword. The entries can be of Boolean, integer or string value. Entries contain Name, Status, Type and Value. Typically, you will be modifying only [...]
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