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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa

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Linux
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- Do you hate modelines?

  I personally hated them for years now and never really managed to build one
  on my own or find satisfying information on the net (especially regarding
  widescreen resolutions). You know, XFree86/Xorg modelines really suck.
  Thanks to Matthias Hopf (who I met on Linuxtag) and Jakob Westhoff (who
  reminded me today) I now about the tool I ever wanted to have: $ gtf. :)

- How to make Linux out of your Windows

  It's been a long long time since I last posted in this category, but this
  link I received from Aaron is really funny:

- Wahooo, I have Gentoo! :)

  Although I could not realize my plan to install Gentoo during the weekend
  (because I had to recover my server from a rootkit, but that's another, much
  more painful, story), I managed it by now. :)

- Testing Gentoo

  Today I'll try out Gentoo Linux. Until now I used Debian on all of my
  machines. Of course, Debian stable (no more Woody, but now Sarge) is always
  for me the best choice for servers, but maybe Debian unstable is not the
  best solution for desktops and notebooks. I usually installed Knoppix on
  those kinds of machines, to get a preconfigured X and hardware recognition.
  Of course the initial installation works fine, but all further upgrades seem
  to break the system more and more, I think because of the customizations
  Knoppix has in respect to pure Debian.

- I am Debian Linux

  I am Debian Linux

- Debian rulez (about Widescreen and RSS)

  After my (not too ;) long vacation it felt great to run "apt-get update" and
  "apt-get dist-upgrade" on my notebook. And indeed, it's been worth it.

- Why Bill hates Linux

  I recently got a scintillation, what Bill (the great Billy Boy) Gates hates
  most on Linux:

- Skippy - or Expose for Gnome

  MacOS (especially X) is a very cool operating system in matters of usability
  and style. I like it very much, except it's only deficiencies:

- I love Synaptics

  Realy, I do! After upgrading to Kernel 2.6.5 I experienced, that the tap and
  double tap (emulating click and double click) functionality did not work
  anymore with my standard PS/2 driver. A little google told me to use either
  a parameter for my actual driver or to use the Synaptics one...

- The flavor of freedom II ...

  After having heard that there are no wifi crads available for rent at the
  International PHP Conference in Amsterdam, I decided to do what I ever
  wanted to do: I bought a card for WLAN. And as stood in front of the shelf
  in the store, I realized, that if I want to test the wireless freedom, I'd
  have to buy a WLAN router, too. And so it went...