Pulse audio is blocking the audio device. If you encounter the same problem (white screen in flash plugin) just comment out all entries in /etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf.
After changing this you need to disable also pulse in mplayer (remove pulse, just leave alsa in ao=pulse, alsa in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf) – otherwise mplayer won’t function anymore.
How to mirror the 26c3 Fahrplan for offline reading, e.g. during Travel:
/usr/bin/wget -r -N -k -np http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/
The offlineimap package in Fedora 11 is somehow broken. It does not really match the python version installed and produces a lot of deprecated warnings, at least one concerning SSL and one concerning md5 library:
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py:23: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import os.path, os, re, time, socket, md5
Werden Fotos digital weitergegeben oder veröffentlicht, sollte man sich genau überlegen, welche Meta-Informationen in Form von EXIF-/IPTC/MakerNotes-Headern man zusätzlich zu den Bilddaten offenlegen will. Ansonsten kann es schnell zu unerwünschten kompromittierenden Situationen kommen. Eine Möglichkeit Metainformationen umfangreich zu bearbeiten bietet die Perl-Bibliothek exiftool.
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Gundolf released a new version 1.5 of his backup tool backup2l after nearly five years. Thought the project was dead already. Nevertheless I am still using it.
With 1.5 Gundolf integrated a bunch of unofficial patches that have been accumulated so far, including my three small enhancements.