I have a new toy. Last week I bought an iPod touch. My primary use case is remote controlling media in my home. I already have a HTPC in my living room with access to satellite TV, videos, photos and music. However, I always found it stupid to switch on my TV in order to choose music. I checked choices like Squeezebox Duet or the TEAC WAP-4500. Pretty nice toys starting around 250 EURO. But if you already have a PC, the iPod is about 200+ EURO extra. And it's a nice gadget too. So I ordered one and tried to run the free Remote app from Apple.
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iPod touch remote for iTunes
Tuesday, September 4. 2007
Getting 1600x1200 to Work on the Secondary Screen of an ATI Equiped Notebook
Some days ago I got a new TFT: 20" with a native display resolution of 1600x1200. Finally I can work with Eclipse and see the 80 character word wrap border with Navigator window on the left and Outline window on the right. However I faced some unexpected problems until I was able to enjoy the full resolution on the secondary screen of my Compaq NW8240 running SuSE Linux 10.2.
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Tuesday, February 7. 2006
Bringing Back the KDE Printer Manager to SuSE Linux
If you always used SuSE Linux and never compiled KDE by yourself, you may have missed one of the most powerful KControl applets: The KDE Cups Printer Manager. It's way more convenient than the cups web interface at
localhost:631
and more powerful than that what SuSE wants you to use, the YaST Printer configuration dialog. E.g. the YaST applet is unable to stop and start the printer queues and both, web interface and YaST, cannot configure special printers for KPrinter.
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