http://circle.ch/blog/index.php A weblog about open source development, law, technology, politics and the like. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:42:13 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 urs@circle.ch urs@circle.ch en 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. http://circle.ch/blog/p1850.html 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 http://circle.ch/blog/p1849.html Ganz gut gelungener Auftritt: http://circle.ch/blog/p1848.html Shuffled replay of mp3 files from a formerly iTunes-organized music library: me@foo:~/Eigene Musik/iTunes$ find . -name '*.mp3' | mpg321 -@ - -z http://circle.ch/blog/p1847.html 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, ... http://circle.ch/blog/p1846.html 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 ... http://circle.ch/blog/p1845.html 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/ http://circle.ch/blog/p1844.html Patscan offers its new calendar of bizarre patents - for the upcoming 2008 [1]. [1] http://patex.ca/pdf/publications/calendar_2008.pdf http://circle.ch/blog/p1843.html 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 ... http://circle.ch/blog/p1842.html 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 ... http://circle.ch/blog/p1841.html