I recently had this strange problem with running a 32 bit executable on a 64 bit machine. It executed just fine on 32 bit machines and some other 64 bit machine. But on this particular machine I got the strange error message:
bash: some32bitexecutable: No such file or directory
which …
In front of the place I work, Ghent University is constructing a new building with two large auditoria and office space, called "Het Ufo" (Universiteitsforum). Being in the digital age, there was of course a webcam pointing at the construction site. Since 21 September 2007, I had a cron job …
How to find out which version of Ubuntu you are running?
Use one of the commands below:
lsb_release -a
cat /etc/lsb-release
cat /etc/issue
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I prefer a qwerty keyboard for programming, but to write in my native language (Dutch) I need sometimes accented characters like ë, ï, é, etc, which do not have dedicated keys on a qwerty layout.
A handy way under Linux is to use a "compose key" ([Alt Gr] on my …
Disclaimer: this entry is mainly a reminder to myself (the stuff you would write on a post-it), but maybe it's useful to someone else.
The subversion server at my work is (currently) only accessible from within the LAN, not directly reachable from the outside evil internet. T his makes it …
Making a video from a set of frames can be done with transcode as follows. Disclaimer: this is mainly a reminder to myself, based on these instructions for making animations from frames, with some extra's.
First make a file with the filenames of the individual frames (in the right order …
I had some difficulties in Ubuntu with installing a new spell check dictionary for my mail client Thunderbird. My native language is Dutch (Nederlands) and writing Dutch with a English spell checker active is not very interesting. I tried the methods explained at http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/dictionaries.html …
On friday 23 june 2006 I decided to upgrade my kubuntu powered laptop (Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi) from Breezy (aka 5.10) to Dapper Drake (aka 6.06). Here is a list (under construction) of my experiences with the upgrade so far. The merits/blames are not all addressed to (k …
Thanks to Planet Ubuntu NL I found a blog entry by Pascal de Bruijn with a hack to extract fonts from a PDF, using pdftops and FontForge. When I have some time, I definitely should try this.
I'm a happy Amarok user, using it for playing/browsing/querying my music collection, but this weekend I encountered a problem: Amarok didn't start anymore. When I launched Amarok (version 1.3.1, that is) from the command line I got the following error:
$> amarok
amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
amaroK …