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  Never buy a Lexmark Printer!

  Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:36am CST by ataub2qf

  Christmas One present was a AIO Lexmark X6575 Printer with WLAN, etc. The installation process seamed to be easy. I installed the printer from a Windows PC, by inserting the CD and clicking Next a few times. BTW: The program asked me if I want to install the printer per WLAN or per USB, [...]
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  Hard Space in Openoffice Write 3.0

  Posted: October 17th, 2008, 4:00am CDT by ataub2qf

  Today I installed Openoffice 3.0 in my Ubuntu Hary, (but I used  bittorrent ) I wanted to insert a non-breaking space by pressing <Ctrl>+<Space>. That did not work. However the answer was easy: First I tried to insert it per Menu: Insert > Formatting Mark > Nonbreaking space. Oh, ther is a new shortcut: <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<Space>. Here you [...]
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  Marquee with Mootools 1.2 (Mooquee)

  Posted: October 10th, 2008, 10:10am CDT by ataub2qf

  Time is changing… So here is my first post not about Ubuntu. As Alberto pointed out: There is a new Version of Mooquee which works with Mootools 1.2, so you can save the time to follow this tutorial Thank you Alberto! For my webdesign I needed something like the deprecated marquee-Element. Because I have the mootools-library [...]
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  HowTo get ColorZilla Eyedropper working on Ubuntu Feisty

  Posted: October 5th, 2007, 5:20am CDT by ataub2qf

  If you want to use ColorZilla on Ubuntu Feisty it may not work out of the box. So here is a little tutorial to get it running. (I am using Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Ubuntu Feisty) -> Should be upgraded to 2.0.0.7 now Download libxpcom* for Firefox ColorZilla (VS von 2.0.0.7). Alternatively you can [...]
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  HowTo convert ogg to avi with mencoder

  Posted: October 5th, 2007, 5:02am CDT by ataub2qf

  If I screencast something, than most of the time I do it with recordMyDesktop which produces .ogg-Videos. If you need to convert it so you can show it to your friend or upload it to a video hosting page like youtube or so you have to convert it into another format. I chose avi as [...]
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  Create thumbnails giving attention to the orientation

  Posted: October 1st, 2007, 10:30am CDT by ataub2qf

  Every now and then I need to get thumbnails of my pictures. I found some solutions, that create thumbnails, but none of them gave attention to the orientation of the image. So if I wanted to resize the images to 640×480 than the landscape pictures had a correct resolution of 640×480px but the portrait pictures [...]
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  HowTo use Mozilla Thunderbird in Nautilus’ Send To… instead of Evolution (for Attachments)

  Posted: July 9th, 2007, 11:20am CDT by ataub2qf

  If you want to send an E-Mail quickly per Mozilla Thunderbird in Nautilus like the Send To Feature you have to write a little script. (I found a .deb for replacing Evolution with Thunderbird, but it did not work. Instead it killed the whole feature. At the end you will get a menu like the [...]
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  Prevent Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) / Take a timed break with standard gnome software

  Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 3:18pm CDT by ataub2qf

  If you work a lot on a PC you should also take many breaks. If you are like me and forget about this very often you could use this trick to force yourself to take the break. Go to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard. In this Keyboard Preferences dialog switch to the Typing Break tab [...]
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  Securely remote control your Ubuntu via putty from a windows host (VNC+SSH)

  Posted: July 1st, 2007, 8:30am CDT by ataub2qf

  Last time I had the following situation: I wanted to remote connect to my workstation from another workstation like in the following image: My current workstation is the left one (I will call it “workstation“) and I want to connect to the computer on the right (”server“). The workstation is running Windows XP, the server is [...]
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  How to read the Comments in a pdf with acroread (not evince)

  Posted: June 4th, 2007, 5:00am CDT by ataub2qf

  You know the picture on the left? You have a pdf-document with comments? You hover over it with evince and what happens? Nothing! I searched for information about how I can read the comment in the pdf with the default viewer evince. I found nothing so I thought maybe acroread can do this. This [...]
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  HowTo Rename a XFS-Filesystem (label it)

  Posted: June 4th, 2007, 1:38am CDT by ataub2qf

  Yesterday I bought a new 500GB harddisk It was formatted with NTFS but I wanted a linux-filesystem. I thought I should give XFS s shot because ext3 is working for me now. I formatted the disk with the GParted LiveCD but you can also do it with gparted installed in Ubuntu (use apt-get install gparted [...]
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  How to get this fancy Ubuntustudio-theme in Ubuntu Feisty

  Posted: May 18th, 2007, 4:22am CDT by ataub2qf

  You sure hear of Ubuntustudio which was released recently. “A multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu. Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.” Maybe you have seen the nice theme too (like the screenshot on the right) I will show you now how you can get this [...]
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  My all-time favorite Firefox Extensions

  Posted: May 11th, 2007, 6:11am CDT by ataub2qf

  The first things I do after having “bloody” new operating system set up is to – if not previously installed – install firefox and some extension I need for “daily” tasks. The first one I think is always PwdHash which generates per-site-passwords on the fly in combination with your master password, so I can login to [...]