circle.ch weblog http://circle.ch/blog/index.php A weblog about open source development, law, technology, politics and the like. en 2013-05-19T10:53:22+00:00 urs@circle.ch hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 LucID Messenger http://circle.ch/blog/p1850.html 2010-08-09T23:03:52+00:00 urs (mailto:urs@circle.ch) General Ever heard of LucID? Just by random run over that messenger, which should enable chatting from iPhone to Android or Blackberry. We managed to chat from Android to iPhone and backwards. But how does one invite people by email? Not a clue yet. LucID? Just by random run over that messenger, which should enable chatting from iPhone to Android or Blackberry. We managed to chat from Android to iPhone and backwards. But how does one invite people by email? Not a clue yet.]]> Öffnungszeiten von diesem und jenem Geschäft http://circle.ch/blog/p1849.html 2008-12-18T08:36:14+00:00 urs (mailto:urs@circle.ch) General Wahora [1] stellt einen ganz nützlichen Dienst zur Verfügung, wobei die Öffnungszeiten ortsspezifischer Dienstleister abgefragt werden können. Hoffen wir mal, dass die Zeiten auch stimmen. [1] http://www.wahora.ch/query.php?cmd=s&search=pickpost+basel
[1] http://www.wahora.ch/query.php?cmd=s&search=pickpost+basel]]> Trommeln mal anders - Hämmers? http://circle.ch/blog/p1848.html 2008-12-04T20:05:20+00:00 urs (mailto:urs@circle.ch) Deutsch Ganz gut gelungener Auftritt: ]]> Rock and roll with mpg321 http://circle.ch/blog/p1847.html 2008-10-06T21:35:09+00:00 urs (mailto:urs@circle.ch) General Shuffled replay of mp3 files from a formerly iTunes-organized music library: me@foo:~/Eigene Musik/iTunes$ find . -name '*.mp3' | mpg321 -@ - -z me@foo:~/Eigene Musik/iTunes$ find . -name '*.mp3' | mpg321 -@ - -z]]> Panini - gesucht, gefunden http://circle.ch/blog/p1846.html 2008-05-27T10:32:38+00:00 urs (mailto:urs@circle.ch) General Biete 15, 19, 51, 71, 84, 95, 101, 116, 120, 121, 147, 156, 168, 170, 190, 190, 281, 253, 297, 301, 303, 341, 345, 358, 416, 427, 431, 434, 453, 457, 458, 470, 485, 496, 507, 521, 522 Suche 3, 11, 23, 29, 31, 37, 39, 66, 110, ... 15, 19, 51, 71, 84, 95, 101, 116, 120, 121, 147, 156, 168, 170, 190, 190, 281, 253, 297, 301, 303, 341, 345, 358, 416, 427, 431, 434, 453, 457, 458, 470, 485, 496, 507, 521, 522

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3, 11, 23, 29, 31, 37, 39, 66, 110, 114, 118, 143, 162, 166, 216, 220, 221, 224, 262, 288, 292, 299, 304, 307, 335, 338, 339, 343, 351, 359, 368, 377, 411, 467, 477, 482, 486, 501, 505, 514, 519, 526, 527, 534]]> How to OCR multipage PDF files http://circle.ch/blog/p1845.html 2008-04-22T16:46:53+00:00 urs (mailto:urs@circle.ch) Content Management The OCR applied here only serves for reasons of indexing PDF files. The page layout will get lost. Nevertheless, the following three steps help you to convert multipage PDF files to a single text file: $ convert -density 150 foo.pdf ./tesseract/tmp/p%02d.tif $ montage.exe ./tesseract/tmp/*.tif -tile 1x -mode concatenate ./tesseract/tmp/foo.tif ...
$ convert -density 150 foo.pdf ./tesseract/tmp/p%02d.tif
$ montage.exe ./tesseract/tmp/*.tif -tile 1x -mode concatenate ./tesseract/tmp/foo.tif
$ tesseract.exe ./tesseract/tmp/foo.tif output -l eng
For reasons of simplicity the TIF files p00.tif to pXY.tif will get concatenated together to a single TIF file, that has the width of a single page and the height of XY pages. In such a way at least the order of the text or the text flow respectively will be preserved. But one could also concatenate a mosaic of all the TIF files. The density of 150 (dpi) gives reasonable results with tesseract.]]> Navigating the Maze of Free and NonFree Licenses http://circle.ch/blog/p1844.html 2008-01-02T08:31:03+00:00 urs (mailto:urs@circle.ch) General Greg London issued a first draft of his new book [1]: The Libre Labyrinth describes an objective way to understand how various FLOS licenses work, and how different FLOS licenses compare to one another. The book is available as well as PDF under a Creative Commons Lincense. [1] http://www.greglondon.com/libre/ The Libre Labyrinth describes an objective way to understand how various FLOS licenses work, and how different FLOS licenses compare to one another. The book is available as well as PDF under a Creative Commons Lincense.

[1] http://www.greglondon.com/libre/]]> Calendar of Bizarre Patents 2008 http://circle.ch/blog/p1843.html 2007-12-05T10:46:40+00:00 urs (mailto:urs@circle.ch) General Patscan offers its new calendar of bizarre patents - for the upcoming 2008 [1]. [1] http://patex.ca/pdf/publications/calendar_2008.pdf
[1] http://patex.ca/pdf/publications/calendar_2008.pdf]]> Fuppes beliefert MusicPal http://circle.ch/blog/p1842.html 2007-12-03T20:31:30+00:00 urs (mailto:urs@circle.ch) Deutsch Seit Kurzen dringt bei mir die Musik aus der Konserve mittels MusicPal in die Ohren. Die Konserve - eine 2.5 inch, ca. 160GB USB HDD umfasst ein Debian und ein Abbild meiner CD-ROM Sammlung, soweit diese überhaupt schon erfasst ist. Debian läuft in aller Ruhe auf einem Linksys NSLU2. Die ... MusicPal in die Ohren. Die Konserve - eine 2.5 inch, ca. 160GB USB HDD umfasst ein Debian und ein Abbild meiner CD-ROM Sammlung, soweit diese überhaupt schon erfasst ist. Debian läuft in aller Ruhe auf einem Linksys NSLU2. Die Musikdaten werden mittels Fuppes (A free multiplatform UPnP (TM) A/V Media Server) den Endgeräten bereitgestellt. Fuppes war leider (noch?) nicht als ".deb" Datei für die ARM Plattform verfügbar, hat sich aber compilieren lassen. Einziges Sorgenkind ist die 2.5 inch HDD - hier wäre ein RAID oder dergleichen wohl noch ganz vernünftig, allenfalls könnte auch rsync auf eine andere HDD dienlich sein. Die Musik wird über ein BKS Homenet sozusagen frei von WIFI-Strahlung übertragen.

[1] http://www.musicpal.info
[2] http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/install.html
[3] http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de
[4] http://www.bks.ch]]> Sharing folders with VirtualBox http://circle.ch/blog/p1841.html 2007-10-13T21:14:14+00:00 urs (mailto:urs@circle.ch) Linux The host system is a Linux based OS, the guest system - running within VirtualBox - is a Windows based OS. The challange was to share a common folder. The documentation was pretty clear about it; but still it did not work. Now it does. In the guest system, a ... VirtualBox - is a Windows based OS. The challange was to share a common folder. The documentation was pretty clear about it; but still it did not work. Now it does. In the guest system, a simple 
c:\>net use x: \\vboxsvr\myshare
did the job [1]. There is no need subsitute vboxsvr with 10.0.2.2 or 192.168.0.2 or something like that. myshare is the name of the shared folder located on the host system.

[1] http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/313]]>