Monthly Archives: November 2010

New BIOS version out for Toshiba Satellite R630/ Portege R700

Toshiba released on the 25th of November the BIOS version B1.70-WIN-EC1.40 for the Satellite R630 and Portege R700. I did not find any information about the improvements it included, but I hope they did something regarding ACPI. I already installed … Continue reading

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Arch Linux on Toshiba Satellite R630/ Portege R700/R705

I do own a Toshiba Satellite R630 and I want to run Linux on it, because in common I do use Linux only since years and all the programs I use are Linux/Unix programs. I already tried to run the … Continue reading

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Typo3 slow page loading because of ImageMagick (CPU goes up to 100%)

Today I discovered that something must be wrong with a Typo3-Installation. Everytime trying to access a page where some pictures will be resized and combined with some other, the speed is quite low. The site is using ImageMagick for working … Continue reading

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Very quick review of free BPMN modelers/ tools/ editors

The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is very popular and is getting close to be the de facto standard for describing business processes in a graphical way. Basically BPMN can be used simply by pen and paper but using a … Continue reading

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