Handling tif image produced by MS Office Document Scanning

I scanned a paper using MS Office Document Scanning (on Windows XP) and the output was a tiff image file. Using file command, I could see th...Read more »

Adjust Linux Network Receive Window for Fast Networks

Simply execute the following command in your shell to increase the receive window buffers. That should improve the performance, especially f...Read more »

Limiting CPU Usage of a Program

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Booting Linux over the Network

Here's a quick how to .Read more »

Refreshing Linux Group Rights

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think there is no other way to let your system know that you e.g. are now member of another group than logging...Read more »

Is PHP supported on my Web Server?

Recently, I had to install a PHP-based web application on my Apache web server. My first question was: "Is PHP enabled on the web serve...Read more »

More on Inserting Arguments from Previous Commands

I previously blogged on using the shortcut Alt + dot to insert the last argument from the previous command . Suppose you don't want the ...Read more »

Mounting Mac OS X partition from Linux

My friend asked me to save his data on a Mac OS X partition since his machine couldn't boot properly into Mac OS X GUI mode. So I booted...Read more »

KDE 4.3 Beta 1 released for testing

KDE.org announced the release of KDE 4.3 Beta 1 for testing. This is the first review of the 3rd iteration of KDE 4 desktop. Some highlights...Read more »

Open a file from the command line using its default application

Windows users are familiar with the concept of file association. When you double click a file (say, cisco.doc), Windows examines the file n...Read more »

The Essence of Open Source

Imagine your computer breaks down. It doesn't power on anymore. Now imagine you're not allowed to open it and the only person who ma...Read more »

Find all (non-)empty files in a directory

Creating an empty file in Linux is easy. If a-file does not exist, create the file and make it empty by simply: $ touch a-file $ ls -l a-fi...Read more »

Pretending a Package is Installed by Creating an Empty Package with Checkinstall (for Debian-based Distributions)

After installing ffmpeg from svn with checkinstall , I had the problem that the also installed library libavcodec51 is not compatible with t...Read more »

A surefire shortcut to Insert the Last Argument of the Last Command

Sometimes, in the Linux command-line world, a seemingly trivial technique can turn out to be tremendously useful. Before I discover the Alt...Read more »

Circumventing Censorship - Evading the "20th Century's Berlin Wall"

The New York Times presents the status quo in censorship evasion with examples of Iran and China. A quite interesting read. Don't expec...Read more »

Mpeg Artifacts

I wonder why mpeg decoders always produce artifacts (bad blocks) when decoding a stream with errors. Shouldn't there be a much better wa...Read more »