When I started to use my HP Color LaserJet CM1312 MFP it turned out that manual duplex printing was not exactly working. Page 1 had page 7 on the back etc. The problem was that the printer prints its pages in opposite direction, starting with the last page. I spend lots of time seaching for a solution. I found this website, which descibes how to change your printer driver in order to print from 1 to n. Here are the steps you need to do…
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Color LaserJet CM1312, duplex, hp, OSX, printing, tutorial
Quite some time I am playing the guitar. I have an acoustic and electric one (a black Ibanez EXR-170 for those interested). A friend of mine recommended practicing pentatonic scales. I looked up some link and started practising, this improved my guitar solo skills for sure. Here are the links I found:
Overview of the pentatonic scales:
Backing music which can be used to practise solos
Video Tutorial
Ibanez EXR-170
general, guitar
guitar, music, pentatonic scales
You might know Aptana, which is a free, on Eclipse based Javascript IDE. Aptana has several nice features like autocompletion and code formatting. You might know Lint as well. Lint is a tool which checks your code from well known coding errors which do not necessarily cause weird program behaviour. It turned out there is JSLint as well, which is Lint for Javascript. The nice thing is that Aptana natively supports JSLint code verification. Out of the box Aptana uses the Mozilla Javascript Validator.
In order to change your validator launch Aptana and click Window -> Preferences. Then goto Aptana -> Editors -> Javascript -> Validation. Now check the JSLint checkbox. Click [Apply] and you are good to go. You might want to uncheck the Mozilla Javascript checkbox.
Aptana preferences window
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aptana, javascript
If you are wondering about whether your software will run on the new OSX Snow Leopard this is definitely a site to check out. Wikidot listed lots of OSX software and the how they run on Snow Leopard.
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apple, OSX
After installing Xubuntu in VMWare I noticed that it had the wrong timezone set up. In order to change the timezone execute (as root) the following:
# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
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kubuntu, Linux, Ubuntu, xubuntu
Yesterday, we went to the birthday of a friend of mine. As a present he asked everyone for money so he could buy something expensive. On the internet I found this video showing how to fold a t-shirt from a bill. Quite original to give 
folded shirt
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folding
Last week I received my new Samsung NC10 hardcase. The softcase that came with the laptop did not seem to be that solid as expected which made me order another one. The Dutch website koopje.nl had a nice offer. For only 11,75 EUR they provided a nice looking case with foam which adopts the shape of the netbook.
Brand: Elecom
Type: 8.9″ Zeroshock III Notebook inner bag
Outside
Inside
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hardcase, netbook, samsung NC10
Today I have become 26 years old. Wow time flies 
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If you are a hacker, what is the thing you want to be on a Linux System? Root. You can try to access a ssh server with the root user. There is an option in the ssh server configuration which prevents a remote root login. This does not mean you can not become root, it means no one can directly login as the root user. So if you are logged in as Alice you can simple enter the “su” command to become root.
How we can prevent the remote root login is described below.
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Linux, Software, general
kubuntu, Linux
If you run Windows on your Samsung NC10 you might have ran into this issue: when you lower your brightness you can not lower it enough. This problem has to do with the “auto-brightness” setting.
bios screen
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netbook, samsung NC10
