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openSUSE tumbleweed with kernel 3.7 or higher using nVidia GeForce driver

Since year I do use on my Linux workstations graphic cards with nVidia chipsets. In my latest and already some years old machine I do use a nVidia Geforce 9600GT. Today it is absolutely not the fastest card anymore, but … Continue reading

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Fireworks on New Year’s Eve 2012

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As usual we had some fireworks on New Year’s eve. I used the opportunity to made some shots of some of the exploding crackers and rockets which where fired into the sky. I did not optimized the pictures individually, so … Continue reading

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Toshiba Satellite R630 and Windows 8

As you may saw by having a look on my previous posts in my blog I do own a Toshiba Satellite R630 which I very similar to the Portege R700/705 and Dynabook R730. Nearly two weeks ago I decided to … Continue reading

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Installing FreeNX on openSUSE 12.1

I do use DigiKam to manage all my digital pictures. Basically DigiKam is a great piece of software with a lot of functions and features. I really love the support for RAW camera files (I do use a Olympus DSLR), … Continue reading

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Hamburg Alster panorama

Yesterday night I did some simple shots at the central lake Alster at Hamburg, Germany. The result is this simple night panorama looking southwards towards the city center. After clicking on the picture there is a “Download” link in the … Continue reading

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Building a NAS for home use – Part 4: Assembly

Part 4: Assembly I bought a lot of stuff along with the HP ProLiant MicroServer which needs to put into the small tower of the server. I do show in this chapter what to install how and in which sequence. … Continue reading

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openSUSE 12.1 is coming!

I’m using openSUSE since S.U.S.E. Linux 4 something on servers, workstations even since 9.x on notebooks. And here is the counter to the next release: 12.1  

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My lenovo ThinkPad Tablet

Since a few weeks I’m a proud owner of a ThinkPad Tablet. After thinking about if I shall go for the 32GB version with or without 3G, I decided to keep it simple and I got the 64GB 3G version … Continue reading

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Building a NAS for home use – Part 3: Software Installlation

Part 3: Software Setup This part explains how I installed the FreeNAS operating system on my HP ProLiant MicroServer and configured it. In case you are questioning yourself how to install the OS before having the device assembled you really … Continue reading

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Building a NAS for home use – Part 2: Components

Part 2: Components Building a NAS or home server based on the Hewlett-Packard ProLiant MicroServer N36L is quite easy. Only a small amount of additional hardware is required to assemble a system with very impressive features and performance. In this … Continue reading

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