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Nice!
At ScRiBLink you’ll find a free, powerful whiteboard where you and your colleagues can work on your ideas together.
No registration is required : )
 
Additional features like
- picture upload
- chat
- math functions
- multiple users
- ….
give you a good base to start sharing concepts online, etc..
 
Note: Maybe it’s not working behind corporate firewalls because it uses additional tcp ports.
 
 

 
If you know about alternatives, please comment.

If you want to use a higher resolution on your linux console, you have to add the specific option while loading the kernel.
i.e: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25 root=/dev/sda3 resume=/dev/sda2 vga=0×0325

Problem: The settings differ depending on your graphics card.
But: There is an easy way: hwinfo

[ sudo ] hwinfo −−framebuffer

Example output:
Mode 0×0307: 1280×1024 (+1280), 8 bits
Mode 0x031a: 1280×1024 (+2560), 16 bits
Mode 0x031b: 1280×1024 (+5120), 24 bits
Mode 0×0305: 1024×768 (+1024), 8 bits
Mode 0×0317: 1024×768 (+2048), 16 bits
Mode 0×0318: 1024×768 (+4096), 24 bits
Mode 0×0312: 640×480 (+2560), 24 bits
Mode 0×0314: 800×600 (+1600), 16 bits
Mode 0×0315: 800×600 (+3200), 24 bits
Mode 0×0301: 640×480 (+640), 8 bits
Mode 0×0303: 800×600 (+832), 8 bits
Mode 0×0311: 640×480 (+1280), 16 bits

Thanks to Gerd [de] for the hint.

Should you be bored and have some time to get amused, take a look at “The IT Crowd”.
It’s a great British sitcom about IT administrators and their weird lifestyle (yes, it’s very exaggerated : ) ).



More about the show @ wikipedia.org.
“Previews” can be found at youtube.com.

PS: Memory is RAM !!   : D

Today, I bought a new scanner – of course without checking linux compatibility : /
hp – a well known brand. Description says “Works with Max OS X, Win Vista, XP, 2000″.
Linux wasn’t mentioned, but that’s not unusual at all.

The default xsane backend package (<- v.1.0.19 [delivered with Ubuntu Hardy])
didn’t find a device, so I tried installing the beta release of the hp3900 sane backends (drivers).
This version is still beta status, but got my new scanner up and running : )

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I’m absolutely fascinated by the new Ubuntu release (18 October 2007).

New features, that I like:

• Repositories are very easy to add
• Hardware detection is great
• Improved Gui, nice desktop effects
• Support for WEP, WPA, PPTP, etc. out of the box
• …

I just installed the system and it was never easier to set up wireless lan or a vpn connection in a linux distribution… Keep up the good work!

Screenshots of my desktop:




(click to enlarge)

great message … think about it ..
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found at YouTube

If you want to convert a flash stream into a more comfortable format, that can be saved on your local disc and be played by most software/hardware, here’s a short guide:

Save your prefered video (from i.e. YouTube, MyVideo, etc.) with KeepVid.

When FFmpeg is installed, the conversion in Linux is quite simple:
ffmpeg -i input.flv -ab 128 -ar 44100 -b 900 \
-s 640x480 output.mpg

-b = videobitrate
-ab = audiobitrate
-ar = audiosamplerate (Hz)
-s = framesize width * height