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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 guys, tomorrow my provider will shutdown my old server. enough reason for me to wipe clean my sensitive data. but how? i was looking around and found some possible solutions [1,2]: srm - securely remove files or directories wipe - securely erase files from magnetic media shred - overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it i’ve decided to use shred. the next thing i have to look after was my ext3 mount option....

“What happens when you read some doc and either it does not answer your question or is demonstrably wrong? In Linux, you say “Linux sucks” and go read the code. In Windows/Oracle/etc you say “Windows sucks” and start banging your head against the wall." - Denis Vlasenko

hey guys, school is starting and i’m again in the class room. so, we all know how good the internet works if you really need it. therefore i need my prezis offline, but i’m not in the mood to startup every time my virtual machine when presenting a offline prezi (only mac and win is supported). after searching for some seconds in the world wide web i found this very cool information!...

hey folks! i’ve had a problem … a lot of pdfs! and i wasn’t really amazed about using a2ps (wanted multiple pages on one sheet), because of not proper configuration. so i’ve searched for another solution to merge my 60 pdf documents. here i found the solution in one ingenious command: gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf *.pdf so long and thanks for all the fish ;)