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Archive for October, 2004

SVN Id Tags

Friday, October 29th, 2004

I discovered that $Id$ tags doesn’t work in SVN by default. You need to add the following properties to the file you want the tags to be replaced:

$ svn propset svn:keywords Id “filename”

Alternatively you could enable it in the svn config file by modifying the following lines, but this would only work for files added [...]

Modeline Generators

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

I have a 1600SW SGI flatpanel. It’s capable of running 1600×1024 at 60Hz which is non-standard resolution so I have to either find the magic modeline from someone or make one from an online modeline generator. The frustrating thing is non of the modelines I found online works with DVI, so I have to resort [...]

1600×1024 DVI Radeon 9000 Mobility driver

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

1600×1024 DVI finally works with the newest release of Radeon linux driver v3.14.1 on my T41 with Radeon 9000 Mobility!

Logitech QuickCam Sphere

Monday, October 18th, 2004

I bought a Logitech QuickCam Sphere :). Apart from being the coolest looking webcam I’ve come across, it features face-tracking software that automatically pans, tilts and zooms the camera to follows you around when you move. I was quite impressed with the face-tracking accuracy and the quality of the video capture which looks good even [...]

Gmail Notifier

Monday, October 18th, 2004

Mail notification is a nice mail checker for gnome which seems to be actively updated. It also supports gmail for gnome 2.8 or >. It pops up a floating box on a corner of your screen with the summary of new mails received. There’s a deb package for download which requires also libgmime2.1 and [...]

Backup on Linux - with backup2l

Sunday, October 10th, 2004

A while ago we bought an 80GB external usb harddisk for storing backups. After tediously archiving the files by hand for a couple of months we finally decided to look for a tool to do incremental backup for us automatically.