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Logitech Professional Presenter R800 under Linux Fedora 16 with LibreOffice Impress

Egon Kastelijn — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:32:46 +0000

Recently I got a Logitech Professional Presenter R800. (the one with the green laser pointer) I tested it under Linux Fedora 16, and it works like a charm! The device also works nicely under LibreOffice Impress 3.4 ( 1:3.4.3.2-11.fc16 in my case ).

The USB device is detected as a keyboard/mouse device: ( /var/log/messages . . . → Read More: Logitech Professional Presenter R800 under Linux Fedora 16 with LibreOffice Impress

Waarom ook wij mee zouden moeten doen met al die sociale media gekte

robert — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:09:13 +0000

Facebook, Twitter, Hyves, Android Apps…. Waarom, niet voor mij zou ik bijna gezegd hebben….

Maar dan. Ik kan me nog herinneren dat mijn ouders zeiden… ICQ is niet meer voor ons, zijn we te oud voor. Ik ben blij dat mijn moeder het toch actief is gaan gebruiken, zo lees ik nog eens iets . . . → Read More: Waarom ook wij mee zouden moeten doen met al die sociale media gekte

Cyrus-imapd i/o performance (100x speedup)

Egon Kastelijn — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:23:49 +0000

Yesterday I experienced some serious performance problems with Cyrus-imapd.

My INBOX contains about 2500 messages, and accessing it through Squirrelmail took my browser about ~120 seconds to display the overview page.

I found out that performance problem was caused by the imapd process which was causing a lot of iowait. The iowait was caused . . . → Read More: Cyrus-imapd i/o performance (100x speedup)

Bug in OpenID plugin for wordpress

robert — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:42:39 +0000

Do you suffer the fact that you just updated your wordpress plugins, and openID in special, after which your wordpress becomes unusable? I had the same and here’s how to resolve..

Open wp-includes/user.php and at the line that says:

function get_usermeta( $user_id, $meta_key = ”) {

Just write a new function just above That . . . → Read More: Bug in OpenID plugin for wordpress

New mobile phone

robert — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:21:17 +0000

Yep, it’s about two years now.. pondering away…

My mobile phone is facing retirement… it’s a blazing two years old (you know how many DAYS that is.. sheesh).

Time goes fast though.. also in mobile technology.. so I invested quite some time in selecting my new phone.. It’s clear that Android has my favour. . . . → Read More: New mobile phone

Merry Christmas

robert — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:49:39 +0000

From here I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy, successful and healthy 2010 !!

Kattenbroek to get fiber optics network !

robert — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:01:18 +0000

And over half a year past our start, we have a go on achieving our fiber optics network in the neighborhood.. What will this mean? Higher bandwidths while the prices remain acceptable… (cheap, in my opinion…)..

seven monhts of hard work.. finally being payed off !!

Kattenbroek connected to fiber…

robert — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:33:48 +0000

It finally is taking off.. Don’t know how long until it gets actually connected, but Kattenbroek (the area of Amersfoort I live in) has an initiative started to get connected to the fiber network. Therefore, I happily show the following banner:

The official Kattenbroek to the fiber . . . → Read More: Kattenbroek connected to fiber…

Upgrade from Fedora 9 to 10

robert — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:57:08 +0000

It went smooth… so I thought…

Oh. wait, this sounds worse than it is… it WENT smooth.. but not totally flawless!.. Here’s what I found out when upgrading Fedora 9 to 10.

First of all, I had my system online and performed a ‘yum upgrade’ to upgrade the system.. After downloading over 800MB . . . → Read More: Upgrade from Fedora 9 to 10