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On a recent business trip I was annoyed by the heavy weight of my Thinkpad Tablet - this and the badly customized Android distribution by Lenovo forced me to have a look for alternatives. Some days ago I could play a few minutes with the Nexus 7 of a colleague - I was amazed by the device.

In short - I decided to order …

If you want to have a short overview about which files of installed RPM packages has been altered, you probably don't want to deal with AIDE - a short script should be enough:

 1#!/bin/sh
 2for i in $(rpm -qa|tr "n" " ")
 3do
 4        RESULT="$(rpm -vV $i)"
 5        if [ "$?" != …

Especially on new installed systems it is possible  that the manpage database wasn't initialized, yet. You can identify this if whatis / man -k doesn't "find anything":

1# man -k man
2man: nothing appropriate

Under HP-UX the index is created using the following command:

1# catman -m

Under RHEL there is a tool …

I had almost every Sense ROM (preferring Sense 4) on my HTC Sensation for testing purposes. I wasn't satisfied will all these ROMs by now - there was always something which annoyed me.

The most ROMs with Sense 4 look nice but have a poor battery life and/or casual stutters while using the home screens. After installing …

After the original release date and 6 other dates were canceled, Fedora 18 was released today.

Time to have a look at the anticipated operating system. The latest version of the RedHat supported project introductes some new features which might be also included in the upcoming version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and …

SciTE is a minimalistic, extendable editor with syntax highlightning for more than 30 programming languages.

Of course SciTE also supports UTF-8 - but doesn't use it by default. If a UTF-8 encoded file is opened, umlauts are displayed erroneous. The used encoding can be selected from a menu - anyway, this trick needs a …

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It is quite possible that a brand-new Raspberry Pi only comes with 256 MB memory after the first boot:

1$ dmesg | grep -i "MB total"
2[    0.000000] Memory: 256MB = 256MB total

A misdelivery does not necessarily have to be the reason for this effect. It is rather important which of the following codes is noted …