May 2011
1 post
Sensible settings for reducing file size on Mac
I guess you all know you can reduce the size of a PDF on a Mac via “Save as …” in Preview and then selecting “Reduce file size” as the Quartz filter. The problem with this filter is that it often degrades the image quality to an unusable degree. You can create your own Quartz filter that uses more adequate compression settings.
I was very satisfied with these settings:
Image sampling: set...
January 2011
1 post
Spiegel Online wieder lesenswert
Vor ein, zwei Jahren hatte ich Angst um meine wichtigste Nachrichtenquelle: Spiegel Online. Die Artikel wurden stumpfer, die Rechtschreibfehler nahmen zu, der Mehrwert aus der investierten Zeit ging gegen null. Doch scheint mir, dass sich in der Redaktion etwas verbessert hat. Immer wieder finde ich Artikel, die informativ, orthographisch korrekt und gut geschrieben sind – und glänzen. Zum...
November 2010
2 posts
Vending machine: put in virtue, get out happiness
Nate: “It’s really fucking lonely. I feel like all I do all day long is manage myself, try to fucking connect with people. But it’s like no matter how much energy you pour into … getting to the station on time or getting on the right train, there is still no fucking guarantee that anyone will be there for you – to pick you up when you get there. – You know what I mean?”
Maggie: “Well, I know...
Appositionen stehen im gleichen Fall wie das...
Falsch:
Für Veh, ein Verfechter attraktiven Offensivfußballs, muss es manchmal eine Qual sein, einigen seiner Profis bei der Arbeit zuzuschauen.
Quelle: Spiegel Online
Richtig:
Für Veh, einen Verfechter attraktiven Offensivfußballs, muss es manchmal eine Qual sein, einigen seiner Profis bei der Arbeit zuzuschauen.
September 2010
3 posts
2 tags
More sensible reporting behavior for JBehave 3.0
Going from 2.5 to 3.0, JBehave changed its default reporting behavior – unfortunately, for the worse. Out of the box, JBehave 2.5
succeeded and remained silent, if all steps were implemented and passed,
succeeded and printed all the steps of a scenario, if at least one step was not implemented – marking that step as pending – and no executed step failed, and
failed and printed all the steps of...
1 tag
Automatically emptying trash on Ubuntu
The most common mechanism for automating tasks on Ubuntu is the cron daemon. You can schedule tasks with crontab -e or you can make your life easier by using Scheduled Tasks, a graphical frontend for crontab. You might need to install gnome-schedule for that.
Now, how do we actually empty the trash? The most commonly recommended way is rm -r ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*. This, however, leaves...
August 2010
3 posts
2 tags
Converting a Bazaar repository to Git
I keep all of my notes in thousands of plain text files in one directory, and version them using Bazaar. Being fed up with Bazaar’s sluggishness – for instance, it makes me wait a couple of seconds for a simple bzr status – I decided to migrate to Git.
I first tried Tailor because Jeff Hodges was favorably impressed by it. Unfortunately it kept nagging me about some branch parameter. Having a...
1 tag
Natural lighting for your monitor
I used to discard programs that promise natural lighting for computers as something quite out there. Not sure what hit me, but last weekend I decided to give it a try, after reading about a new release of F.lux on Omg Ubuntu. Well, F.lux did not work on my Ubuntu installation at all, but Redshift, an alternative, did.
Now, just a week later, I find any monitor without “natural” lighting...
Twitter is down and I cannot tweet about it.