Nice origami paper CD-sleeves for !ubuntu CD http://ur1.ca/6xrk !ubuntube

I often read blogs of people who share their pictures, and who seem to me almost professionals. As I think he does quite some nice things with his camera, I’d like to make some publicity for my cousin, Vincent Wolvenspergens who is an amateur photographer.
He just made a very nice shot, which I’d like to share:

But most of his pictures are tastefully about women.

I hope you’ll like it.

As I had some spare days in June, I suddenly decided a couple of weeks ago to do the RHCE exam. So I went on a trip to Mons today, and was pleased to meet Sebastien irl. Thanks again for your support, Seb!
The exam procedure changed recently, and contains now only one single session of 3.5 hours. The topics by themselves are not hard, and should be easily mastered by every sysadmin with some decent experience. Some things are Red Hat specifics of course, so don’t try it if you never worked on a Red Hat (or obviously CentOS) box. What makes it hard though, is that you get a lot of topics you need to handle within a relatively short period. If you need to start diving in man pages to figure out how to configure things, better prepare yourself a bit more.
Oh, and yes, I passed . The RHCE part was pretty good actually, but I was in luck to just have slightly over the needed 70% for the RHCT part though. Thanks to one topic I didn’t master well enough.. oh well.
(If someone needs RHCE training books, send me a note!)

Get twitter or get a life.

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Mark is looking for a term to describe an “anti-feature“, e.g. as in a printer that only works with cartridges of the same brand.
I’d like to propose the term
confeature
The pun was originally not intended.

Proposed patched version (1) of xkcd-149 a.k.a. sudo make me a sandwich:
Make me a sandwich v2
Tested in bash only… feel free to propose patches for other shells

Drama: ik ontdek vandaag dat ik van vorige maand een reeks foto’s kwijt ben. Iets met op de verkeerde plaats geïmporteerd en dan daar gewist zonder te weten dat het de originele staan.
Ze hebben ook te kort op mijn toestel gestaan op er een backup van te hebben. Ik werk met een sync systeem die ieder uur mijn data van mijn desktop naar mijn server versast, en de laatste versie van die dag komt dan in de normale server backup terecht, waar met rsnapshot een historiek wordt van bijgehouden. Blijkbaar heb ik die foto’s dus geïmporteerd en gewist op dezelfde dag.
Uiteraard heb ik mijn 3 maandelijkse “Empty Trash” net in de voorbije maand gedaan. Of had ik die foto’s commandline en niet via mijn desktop file manager gewist.
Maar gezien dat mijn $HOME volledig in de backup zit, zit dus ook ~/.local/share/Trash/files . En in de daily.5/daily.6/weekly.0/weekly.1 versies van die Trash zaten wel nog mijn foto’s
Handig die backups waar je niet moet naar omzien en die je dus niet kan vergeten.

Ik ontdekte net een zeer leuke functie in virtualbox: de ’seamless mode’. Deze integreert de vensters van een virtuele machine in je huidig OS.  Dit geeft je de mogelijkheid om alle programma’s in je besturingssysteem (virtueel) te draaien. Zeker de moeite waard om eens uit te proberen.
Windows calculator naast gcalctool en gnome-terminal in Ubuntu
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At the last Libre Graphics Meeting I met Igor Novikov, who is the lead developer of sK1. sK1 is a vector graphics editor, just like Inkscape but with a different focus. While Inkscape is oriented to the SVG format and is ideal for web design, sK1 targets professional designers from the prepress world. So sK1 supports CMYK, multiple pages and separating colour plates. To quote wikipedia:sK1 is an open-source illustration program for the Linux platform that can substitute professional proprietary software like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator. Unique project features are CorelDRAW formats importers, tabbed multidocument interface, Cairo-based engine, color management etc.The multipage feature is very handy for designing booklets with vector graphics or presentations, which you could project with impressive (former keyjnote). Under the hood Inkscape and sK1 share Uniconvertor, for importing, exporting and converting vector graphics. Uniconvertor was developed by the sK1 team. (sK1 is a fork of the Skencil project.) Another difference from Inkscape, is that sK1 itself is developed in 100% pure python. So you could in a way it use as a python library.sK1 is being developed under Mandriva and it is hard to install on Ubuntu (especially for graphic designers). I noticed that Vladimir Osintsev was preparing a package for Ubuntu. I contacted him and invited him to work together on it within the Debian Python Package Team. So hopefully sK1 will become available in Debian and Ubuntu (from Karmic).As some of you can't wait and like to use sK1 with the current Ubuntu releases, I decided to add sK1 for Jaunty and Intrepid to my PPA:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/stani/ppa/ubuntu jaunty mainTo add the key of my PPA to your system, type the following in a terminal (replace jaunty with your ubuntu version):sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 7B0FB2CAYou can read my PPA page https://launchpad.net/~stani/+archive/ppa for more information.Disclaimer: this is the development version of sK1 and the packages have not been tested by a critical mass. In case you have problems, you should report them on the sK1 forums. The packaging is not perfect yet. For example there will be no entry in the start menu. This will be fixed in a next release. I've sent Igor from sK1 the necessary files to resolve this issue. So for now start sK1 by typing "sk1" in the run dialog (Alt+F2) or in a terminal.As a final remark: you need to remove your ~/.sk1 folder, otherwise sK1 might have troubles starting up.