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how to reach the screensaver on openSUSE’s KDE?
Looks like I can start it through “run command…”, but I looked around a lot, and I cannot find it in the menu tree. Isn’t that odd?
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DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) is a distributed storage system for the GNU/Linux platform
I am having a look into this interesting technology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRBD the official website: DRBD.org distributed storage system “DRBD layers logical block devices (…) over existing local block devices on participating cluster nodes. … and may be used both below and on top of the Linux LVM stack. …” failover, failback, switchover, split brain …
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Gearman: distributing appropriate computer tasks to multiple computers, so large tasks can be done more quickly
I am having a look into this interesting technology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gearman the official website: Gearman.org it is Open Source The name “Gearman” was chosen as an anagram for “Manager“, “since it dispatches jobs to be done, but does not do anything useful itself.” have a look at the documentation at Gearman.org [Link] “Getting Started with Gearman” [Link]…
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bazaar (software, “bzr”) is a distributed revision control system sponsored by Canonical
Bazaar (software) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ruby: can I name the class of a particular variable? is there something like “is_a?”?
What is a simple / elegant way in Ruby to tell if a particular variable is a Hash or an Array? – Stack Overflow The answer is of course: yes, you can. And: yes, exactly. XmlSimple treats elements with attributes as Hash, w/o attributes they are simply String. “googlecl-0.9.12 -> googlecl-0.9.13” brought a change, where…
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where to disable JavaScript in browsers
This list will not be complete, I just gave it such a general name, so that it’s short enough. Chromium, Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy > Content settings > JavaScript > Manage exceptions > JavaScript exceptions > Hostname pattern Mozilla Firefox: Firefox itself only has the general JavaScript Yes/No switch; through NoScript you can declare…
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if the X.Org X11 drivers cannot read my display’s EDID …
… – how can I supply the display capabilities to X11 anyway?
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my X11 sessions keep aborting all of a sudden
That’s a new phenomenon with openSUSE-12.1 on my ASUS notebook NOUVEAU(0): Chipset: “NVIDIA NV98” My /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows a Backtrace, then “Fatal server error“: Caught signal 3 (Quit). Server aborting I found similar reports dating back to 2011, suggesting to try a new kernel. Well, I should have newer kernels. Maybe I should give the proprietary…
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O’Reilly Media: Regular Expressions Cookbook, 2nd Edition
Regular Expressions Cookbook, 2nd Edition: Take the guesswork out using regular expressions to search and manipulate text. With this updated cookbook, you’ll learn powerful new tricks, steer clear of flavor-specific gotchas, and save valuable time with this huge library of solutions to difficult, real-world problems.
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Google Mail: how to use ‘plus’ sign for filtering mails
Gmail: how to use ‘plus’ sign for filtering mails : tools & tips