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Another Xorg update After my last Xorg update I've lost the nice ability to log into my KDE. Well, this sucks because I spent a long time compiling kdelibs and friends so I really want to use it. Symptoms A blank screen on login. You can even see your mouse pointer but nothing else. If you take a…
Vítor Brandão
PDF generation and invalid characters While working with the TableTools [http://www.datatables.net/extras/tabletools/] PDF generator included in the great DataTables [http://www.datatables.net/] jQuery plugin I've noticed that sometimes the script failed to generate the PDF file. The cause? Invali…
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Coffee break everyone? Everyday morning was the same: updatedb came and took my Gentoo away. The symptoms were clear, X/KDE applications starting to become slow and unresponsive , and then the two inevitable choices: go for a coffee and wait or pkill the bastard. Asking updatedb to be nice (the wro…
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No, this will not replace Google Translate [http://translate.google.com] or Babel Fish [http://babelfish.yahoo.com]. But it does something that these tools simply can't offer. For some time I've been using Wikipedia [http://www.wikipedia.org/] to translate expressions that a normal translator coul…
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It has been a while since I took Laurento Fritella contributions on bugzilla for CoovaChilli-1.0.11 [http://bugs.gentoo.org/217141] and made them available through Sunrise overlay [http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise]. In the meantime I've tried to submit version 1.0.14 but run into some problem…
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