Recently I bought me a new wireless keyboard. Reason was the advice of my physiotherapist to improve my sitting posture at work, so she told me to place the monitor in eye level and the keyboard and mouse near the edge of the desk. But this is not really easy with a notebook. Therefore I searched for a lightweight keyboard with an integrated touchpad: Logitech K400r won the selection. The keyboard is small so I need to getting used to it but it worked out of the box even on my new installed linux arch distribution....

hey folks, Walk off the Earth [1] plays in Vienna … come and see the incredible band live at the Gasometer. There are some tickets left [2] 8-) Here is a modified picture of the band - I put the names on it for an easier who is who recognition: [caption id=“attachment_977” align=“aligncenter” width=“516”] original to be found here[/caption] See you at the concert :-D [1] http://www.walkofftheearth.com/biography [2] http://www.oeticket.com/planet/de/tickets/walk-off-the-earth-wien-planettt-bank-austria-halle-gasometer-290489/event.html

seen on slashdot: “An anonymous reader points out just how thick a skin it takes to be a kernel developer sometimes, linking to a chain of emails on the Linux Kernel Mailing List in which Linus lets loose on a kernel developer for introducing a change that breaks userspace apps (in this case, PulseAudio). “Shut up, Mauro. And I don’t _ever_ want to hear that kind of obvious garbage and idiocy from a kernel maintainer again....

seen on hacker news: http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/12/28/happy-birthday-linus-linux/

there were some troubles configuring the splash screen. here is a possible solution based on the listed links below: vim /etc/default/grub >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024 GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="1280x1024" grub-update vim /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash >> FRAMEBUFFER=y update-alternatives --config default.plymouth update-initramfs -u http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2066656.html http://askubuntu.com/questions/202764/plymouth-not-showing-after-upgrading-to-ubuntu-12-10 http://askubuntu.com/questions/98022/startup-shutting-down-screen-showing-xubuntus-bootsplash-and-not-ubuntus