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Thoughts on KDE 4.4

KDE 4.4 released! It makes a few good improvements, but still has a bit of way to go.


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Making Archlinux’s pacman go faster

After a while pacman-operations on my computer started getting really slow. To optimize the database and make pacman go quick again, there’s the aptly named “pacman-optimize” which will try to put all the small files in one physical place on your harddrive. For me on ext3 it made a world of difference.
Also, to remove old [...]


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Strange kernel panics

I don’t remember when it started, but every now and then when I got back at the computer after leaving it on for several hours, the keyboard-leds would blink and the computer would not respond to anything – in other words a kernel panic. The problem was nothing got written to any logfiles, so debugging [...]


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Making /tmp your own

When I wrote about keeping /tmp contents survive reboots, I really wanted to make *my* stuff survive reboots. TMPDIR to the rescue – adding “export TMPDIR=~/tmp” to the envfile gives me a private tmp dir, and programs like okular with temporary documents will now be able to open that tmp-doc after a reboot.


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Wierd errors when running Nagios3

While setting up Nagios3 I got this error: (Return code of 127 is out of bounds – plugin may be missing). I couldn’t understand what it was because I could run check_nrpe manually from the CLI and other plugins (link check_ping) worked fine. After a lot of looking around it turns out (atleast in Gentoo) [...]


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Unmerging several packages using wildcards

Easy as pie (once you know it):
cd /var/db/pkg/; emerge -Ca */*PACKAGE*


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Keeping /tmp contents between boots on Arch

Although dependancy on /tmp is a bad idea, I still want to be able to recover things like OpenOffice and Okular files between boots. You could probably set up where these programs do temporary storage, but this is quicker; open up /etc/rc.inittab anddelete the line “/bin/rm -rf /tmp/* …”.
This works, however old stuff is now [...]


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How to sync Nokia N73 perfectly with Linux/KDE

Get a new phone.
Hopefully Nokias recent opensource-efforts will start to mean working phones on linux.


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Migrating from KDE3.5 to KDE4.2

First, it is possible to just copy your old .kde dir to .kde4. Some things didn’t work for me and anyway it’s a good opportunity to do some housecleaning, so I decided to try and import data instead (and keep the old .kde3 dir in case I need it later).
Konqueror: import bookmarks from 4.2 works [...]


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KDE 4.2 released!

When Linus jumps ship and switches to gnome, I start using it. The first version that is usable by normal people just got released. For a good review of the new things I recommend KDE 4.2 Review From Inside Out. Part 1 and Part 2. And here’s a good overview of the new desktop effects. [...]


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