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Data Replication with Unison and rsync 0

Posted on Friday, February 29

I’m using two computers to do my work: A workstation at home and a laptop for working in the train or at University. To synchronize and backup my data, I set up a fileserver.

In this article I’d like to show you, how I replicate my home directory with the help of Unison and rsync.

Don't Panic!

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No Power to Blinking Cursors 0

Posted on Sunday, October 28

Blinking cursors are in my opinion one of the most annoying “features” of graphical user interfaces. Luckily it is possible to disable them in many applications.

GNU Emacs

To turn off the blinking cursor permanently in GNU Emacs, just put



(if (fboundp 'blink-cursor-mode) (blink-cursor-mode 0))

in your .emacs.

GNOME and the GNOME Terminal

Execute the following two commands in a terminal window to get rid of the blinking cursor:

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gconftool-2 --set "/desktop/gnome/interface/cursor_blink" --type boolean "False"
gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/cursor_blink" --type boolean "False"

Mozilla Firefox and Epiphany

Open about:config and insert or edit the Integer entry for ui.caretBlinkTime with the value 0.

More information about disabling blinking cursors can be found at JURTA.

Linux-powered towel 2

Posted on Saturday, September 29

I saw this Linux-powered bathroom set at Kapalı Çarsi (Grand Bazaar) in Istanbul.

Tux

I wonder if it runs NetBSD too…

Upgrading Ubuntu Server 0

Posted on Thursday, June 21

I updated my fileserver from Edgy to Feisty this week. Instead of doing the usual search and replace in /etc/apt/sources.list, I chose to do it the Ubuntu-way:

sudo aptitude install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade

It worked flawlessly.