Mind of Matt

Month: June 2008

  • Third way cont.

    Nearly a year ago, I published two articles (“What kinda company with God is possible?“, “The third way of life in this world“) that claimed: immediate contact with God is in no way that commonplace as most Christians believe. Here, I want to add some thoughts to that tradition to get a sharp criterion what […]

  • The empathic God

    Inspired by a recent discussion with a friend, I’ll get you here on an experimental track of thought. So be warned, and check the content for its truth by the methods you see fit for that. Note that this is just a quick document to save some thoughts … get inspired or build upon it, […]

  • How can I “magnify” a PDF document with DIN A4 pages to another one with DIN A3 pages?

    Use Adobe Reader for that (here on Linux, but you could use another free Ghostscript based destiller on Windows, e.g. the PDF pseudo printer PrimoPDF). Open the document in Adobe Reader. Open the dialog “File -> Print …”. Select the printer “Custom …”, and in the combobox that appears at the right border of the […]

  • How can I print out a large page in a PDF document, tiled on multiple small pages, using Adobe Reader on Linux?

    Acrobat Reader has no own function to print “tiled on multiple pages”, but there is a trick: use the function to print the “current view”, i.e. current screen content. After that, move the view one tile on by clicking beneath the slider in the scrollbar, and print the next view. One can combine that with […]

  • Aktueller Tarifvergleich: flexibler Tarif für DSL 4000-6000

    Gesucht ist ein DSL-Tarif der flexibel genug ist um schnell auf günstigere Tarife, Änderungen der Wohnsituation (Umzug, Einzzug in eine WG in der bereits DSL besteht usw.) und Änderungen im Telefonieverhalten reagieren zu können. Anforderungen im Einzelnen, nach Priorität: keine Mindestvertragslaufzeit (oder max. 12 Monate) und keine Verlängerung der Mindestvertragslaufzeit höchstens monatliche monatliche Kündigungsfrist nach […]

  • How to repair a defective e-mail in one of kmail’s local maildir folders?

    The symptom is probably that you can see the e-mail in the overview (title, date), but no contet is shown and you cannot move the e-mail to another kmail folder, or delete it. Solution: Find the file that corresponds to the e-mail. Your e-mails are normally stored somewhere below ~./kmail/. Move this file to another […]