November 2009 « ma.juii.net

How to do high-quality PDF exports from FreeMind?

This refers to version 0.9.0 RC4.

One should avoid to print the document to a PDF file via the CUPS PDF pseudo-printer (the one that outputs to ~/PDF by default). This creates a file ~/PDF/Java-Printing.pdf, but it uses Adobe Type 3 fonts (bitmap fonts), which reduces the effective print resolution and optical quality, and makes [...]

Pro & contra inside & outside the system

A more rational approach to choosing my desired lifestyle would not hurt. So, what are the pros and cons of living inside the social system of this society, versus escaping it in my style by living and traveling in an expedition vehicle, working from on the road with an Internet-connected computer?

I need to think [...]

Ooops, relationship

Many people like to be free and independent. Some even to the degree that they prefer self-employment over the security of employment, and friendships over the reliability of long-term pair relationship. Of course there’s always the danger of loneliness, but also always the benefit of flexible, agile, simple living. You gotta agree with only yourself [...]

How to burn a DVD using Linux command line?

Create the image (with RockRidge extension and Joliet extension). There is also a “-udf” option to create a UDF file system on a DVD, but a DVD also works pefectly with the CD-ROM style ISO file system, which is used here:

genisoimage -r -J -o /path/to/image.iso /path/to/tree/;

If your image should be build [...]

How to use a VIA VT6421 based IDE RAID Controller in Linux?

This is for Ubuntu Linux 9.04.

Specifically, it is a 2-port eSATA PC-card with that VIA VT6421 chip. Inserting the card immediately results in the following added line in lspci output:03:00.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller (rev 50)

hardware4linux.info says that this controller is supported, by the kernel module sata_via [...]

A list of the Joomla bugs I found but did not report, maybe still open

If you use SEF URLs, then simple #fraction links to anchors or tags with ids within the same page (resp. content item) will not work any more. E.g.: <a href=”#footnote5″>[5]</a>.

Using Mambo 4.5.1 Beta 4. If I write “[019]” in my content item, it gets transformed to “[019 >". At least if this text [...]

How to obfuscate e-mail addresses and text in general for web use?

For a general introduction see this Wikipedia article.

The advice to use for e-mail addresses would be this tool. It can only be used for these, though, as it checks the input accordingly.

The advice for general text (like address data) would be the textmunger tool.

According to this analysis, mungling by replacing characters with HTML [...]

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