http://www.imped.net redirection of everyday life, by Ivan Savcic Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:08:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 sr create file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/76download with content: Acquire { Queue-mode "access"; http { Dl-Limit "25"; }; }; That limits apt-get to 25KB/s http://www.imped.net/2010/02/10/limiting-apt-get-download-speed/ To achieve that "bent paper shadow" look, follow this short tutorial. Make a new image with white background, size 600x600px Make two transparent layers Make a 400x400px square at position x=100 y=100 (ie. centered) Save selection to path At "New Layer" fill that selection with black, on "New Layer#1" with white Deselect Select "New Layer" Motion Blur, Zoom, ... http://www.imped.net/2009/04/06/gimp-corner-shadows/ I need s p a m, as much as possible, sent to office@paste.rs If you can include it on your weblogs and such in plaintext form, it would be great! If you are using reCAPTCHA, you have to use nohide BBtag. And no, it's not a real "office" mail, it's just ... http://www.imped.net/2008/12/28/fellow-geeks-help-needed/ A good ol' from Ubuntu *and* Debian bugs: Dimitrios Symeonidis wrote on 2008-10-14: (permalink) this bug will soon celebrate it's 3rd birthday. it's marked as confirmed, high importance, and reported upstream (debian). are we going to do something about it, or are we just waiting for debian to resolve this? (Emphasis added for ... http://www.imped.net/2008/12/10/im-just-an-old-chunk-of-coal-but-im-gonna-be-a-diamond-some-day/ From Sun Web Learning Center license: CUSTOMER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT COURSEWARE IS NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED FOR USE IN THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION,OPERATION OR MAINTENANCE OF ANY NUCLEAR FACILITY. SUN DISCLAIMS ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR SUCH USES. Aww... But... But I really wanted to run Solaris in my nuclear weapons ... http://www.imped.net/2008/12/04/thou-shalt-not-make-nukes/ By experimenting with a couple of ingredients, I have made a cream cheese spread that, at least to my senses, resembles the Serbian dry sausage taste a lot. Weird! Recipe: 3 tbsp cream cheese ("A la kajmak" or similar) 3 tbsp yogurt 4 leaves of fresh basil 2 cloves of garlic salt Put the cream cheese and ... http://www.imped.net/2008/06/23/veggie-dry-sausage-like-cream-cheese-spread/ Performance Edition Windows XP je uprošćena verzija XP-a koja ima poizbacivane gomile drajvera i nepotrebnih gluposti, ali nažalost izbačena je i podrška za srpski keyboard layout, ćirilični i latinični. Kako ispraviti? Lako. 1. Prekopirati sa regularnog XP-a (možda bi i w2k poslužio?) fajlove kbdycc.dll i kbdycl.dll iz C:\WINDOWS\system32 foldera 2. Uneti u ... http://www.imped.net/2008/03/04/xp-performance-edition-srpski-keyboard-layout-howto/ ls -1 *.wav | while read FILE; do sox "$FILE" -r 22050 "NOVO/$FILE" compand 0.001,0.15 -28,-inf,-24,-24 -0.3 0 0 resample -qs; done http://www.imped.net/2008/01/23/sox-yeah/ sed -e 's/#.*//' -e 's/[ ^I]*$//' -e '/^$/ d' ...so I don't have to think of it again. http://www.imped.net/2007/11/22/remove-comments-and-empty-lines-sed-one-liner/ Simply wonderful. I don't have to get it from testing and "break" my stable box with mixed trees! http://www.imped.net/2007/11/10/deluge-torrent-and-etch-backports/