By now, everyone has heard about this story. It could have come in as a surprise, which in fact it isn’t. The more technically oriented know that any “Windows” system they’ve had the complete lack of a pleasure not to be able to avoid using (or having had to...
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A Case for an SSD
I’ve just had another occasion to compare directly two pretty similar machines: A recent off-the-shelf MacBook Pro (I5, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB SATA) with my normal working MacBook Pro (I7, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD). Falling back to the slower machine, and not using all the RAM...
Continue reading...New OCR Wrapper published on Sourceforge
I’ve shared a small project I’ve recently written on sourceforge: pdfocrwrapper.sourceforge.net This tool serves as a wrapper around the excellent ABBYY OCR engine which also exists as a Linux variant. The wrapper recursively iterates a directory structure and submits all PDF that it finds (and that it has not...
Continue reading...Reuse another computer as a secondary display on your MacBook
I just came across an immensely useful piece of software: ScreenRecycler (www.screenrecycler.com). It is basically a display driver mapping to a VNC server that allows your primary MacBook pro to provide the VNC server to another computer, and to use that VNC served display as secondary display on the...
Continue reading...Attention when upgrading to Firefox 3.6 on Linux and using VMWare Server Console
When upgrading e.g. to Ubuntu 10.4, Firefox will get its current version updated to 3.6. Unfortunately, the VMWare Server Console plugin will refuse to work with Firefox 3.6. For this reason, if you need to use the plugin, you can download Firefox 3.5.9 e.g. from mozilla.cdn.cacheboy.net/firefox/releases/3.5.9/linux-i686/de/firefox-3.5.9.tar.bz2 and install it...
Continue reading...How to manage virtual mail domain aliases with ISPConfig 3
Here’s a small script I’ve implemented as a MySQL stored procedure that allows you to include a virtual domain mapping scheme for the Version 3.0 of ISPConfig. ISPConfig – see www.ispconfig.org – is an excellent tool for managing virtual domains on a shared mail/webserver. The thing that I found...
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