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“WhatsApp Messenger” does not want to run on my Android tablet
WhatsApp Messenger – Android Apps on Google Play www.whatsapp.com/android/ : “Tablet devices are not supported” – no explanation / justification found Q: And what’s their business modell at all? A: [link] It is the 2nd largest selling app on Apple Store …
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Mac OS X “Quick Look Preview” vs copy+paste
http://heise.de/-1869627 http://www.heise.de/ct/hotline/Textpassagen-aus-Quick-Look-Vorschau-kopieren-1869627.html c’t-Archiv, 13/2013, page 158 “Textpassagen aus Quick-Look-Vorschau kopieren” (in German, for subscribers only) (I only quote this reference to give them some honour.) $ defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE # activate!$ killall Finder # only a Finder started after the last command will obey$ defaults read com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection # so what’s the current value?
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how to make Microsoft Outlook to not send winmail.dat as attachment
Winmail.dat sent as an email attachment in Outlook 2007 and 2010
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Chrome refuses connection to certain local ports
Chrome verweigert Verbindung zu bestimmten Ports | c’t (in German) # how to unblock by starting on the command line:$ google-chrome –explicitly-allowed-ports=6000,6667
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Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize: ‘Heroic effort at great personal cost’
‘Heroic effort at great personal cost’: Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize — RT News
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NSA scandal delivers record numbers of internet users to DuckDuckGo (The Guardian)
NSA scandal delivers record numbers of internet users to DuckDuckGo | World news | The Guardian
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turning an “ext2” or “ext3” file system into an “ext4” one
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Converting_an_ext3_filesystem_to_ext4 root# tune2fs -j /dev/sdXY # add an ext3 journal, if we start with ext2 root# tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/sdXY root# e2fsck -f /dev/sdXY # maybe you want to add … # “-C 0” : progress bar …
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Rick Sladkey’s NFS utility “showmount”
linuxreviews.org/man/showmount Rick Sladkey and Linux NFS [oreilly.com/openbook/linag2/book/ch14.html = Linux Network Administrator’s Guide, 2nd Edition] showmount is quite useful, if you want to examine the properties of NFS shares instead of just mounting it. I used it, when I found it troublesome to mount a share from a (Linux) virtual machine behind a NAT router (actually a VirtualBox…
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the CPU usage of my openSUSE VM seemed abusive, elimated “Nepomuk Semantic Desktop”
I don’t think, I do make the intended use of the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop, so I prefer to switch the entire thing off. I couldn’t find the cause through “top”, but “pstree -p” showed a lot of processes with “nepomuk” in their names. A KDE search (KDE Start button, “Search”) for “nepomuk” helped. “Nepomuk Server…
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InoReader is the best Google Reader replacement I came across
It resembles Google Reader really, really a lot. InoReader.com InoReader.com/forum the RSS Subscription Extension (by Google) (a Chrome / Chromium browser extension) lets you add a subscription to your InoReader