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Areca: Linux desktop backups made easy
There are some desktop backup tools available for Linux, but most of them are not developed anymore. Areca however is under constant development and also provides a user friendly GUI. Backups and...
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KDE4Daily – testing KDE 4.1 with daily updates
KDE4Daily, a virtual machine image of KDE 4 with daily updates was released for KDE 4.1. This gives anyone the opportunity to test the newest KDE 4.1 sanely inside a virtual machine. KDE4Daily had its...
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Arora, a WebKit browser in Qt
The release of Qt 4.4 came along with the WebKit browser engine which could be tested with an included demo browser. This demo browser is now developed independent under the name Arora and is already,...
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KDE at LinuxTag 2008, Day 2 – Taking over the World
The second day at LinuxTag is over. It showed how KDE is steadily taking over the world. Today a group of CIOs did a guided tour through the exhibition halls, and of course the icing cake was the KDE...
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The Power of Plasma theming – a gallery of 23 themes [Update]
One of the most often mentioned concerns at the KDE booth at LinuxTag was the question if Plasma would force the user to have a black panel. While we did have a second machine showing another theme to...
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Short Tip: Use composition effects in KDE 4 without fancy graphic cards
There is an easy way of enabling KWin’s composition capabilities even if you don’t have the possibility to run OpenGL. In fact, you can even activate composition within a virtual machine like...
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Improvements in KDE’s Folderview
One of the most interesting new features in KDE 4.1 is the new Folderview plasmoid. With the release of KDE 4.1 Beta 2 several small improvements. Folderview is an awesome plasmoid which makes it...
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Proof of concept: Google Gadgets on Plasma
KDE 4′s Plasma cannot only handle it’s own native widgets, but also foreign ones. The Plasma developers have shown that it is technically possible to load Google Gadgets natively within Plasma. Plasma...
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Last call for ….
I haven’t posted anything in a while on this blog, and now I made the decision that this will not change: it is unlikely that this blog will be updated anytime soon. The reason is actually twofold: Job...
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Howto: Syncing multiple calendars between Android and Zarafa
Syncing multiple calendards between Zarafa (or any other groupware) and Android over ActiveSync is not possible due to limitation in Android. However, Zarafa can export calendars via CalDav, and there...
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UUIDs and Linux: Everything you ever need to know [Update]
What is so special about UUIDs in Linux? I don’t know! But a single, simple short tip about looking up UUIDs in Linux from 2007 is one of the most successful posts I ever wrote! And is still looked up...
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Howto: Installing Owncloud News, a self hosted RSS reader
Owncloud News, a RSS news reader for the self hosting cloud service Owncloud, is available in an Alpha version. That comes right at the time Google Reader is bound to see its end soon. I must admit...
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[Howto] Share Ethernet via Wifi with NetworkManager in KDE
I recently was taking part in a training at a place which had poor cellular reception, no wifi and only one single ethernet connection. Thus we had to the ethernet via wifi. I tried to do just that...
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First look at cockpit, a web based server management interface [Update]
Only recently the Cockpit project was launched, aiming at providing a web based management interface for various servers. It already leaves an interesting impression for simple management tasks – and...
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Current distribution of WhatsApp alternatives
Many people are discussing alternatives to WhatsApp right now. Here I just track how many installations the currently discussed alternatives have according to the app store. WhatsApp was already bad...
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Ansible Galaxy just added Solaris platform support
While Ansible is mostly used in Linux environments, it can also be used to manage other UNIX variants like Solaris. Now the central hub for Ansible roles, Ansible Galaxy, also added support for the...
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[Howto] Managing Solaris 11 via Ansible
Ansible can be used to manage various kinds of Server operating systems – among them Solaris 11. Managing Solaris 11 servers via Ansible from my Fedora machine is actually less exciting than previously...
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[Howto] Solaris 11 on KVM
Recently I had to test a few things on Solaris 11 and wondered how well it works virtualized with KVM. It does – with a few tweaks. Preface Testing various different versions of operating systems is...
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Ansible Tower 3.1 – screenshot tour
Ansible Tower 3.1 was just released. Time to have a closer look at some of the new features like the workflow editor. Just a few days ago, Ansible Tower 3.1 was released. Besides the usual bug fixes,...
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[Howto] ara – making Ansible runs easier to read and understand
Ara is a simple web server showing detailed information about Ansible runs. It is helpful in understanding and troubleshooting Ansible runs. Background Ansible runs, especially on the command line, do...
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