http://www.dr-jan.com/tips Handy hints and techy tips from Dr Jan. Sun, 31 May 2009 18:22:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gosh, I seem to have been rather remiss in not mentioning these web sites before. You'll have to excuse my ageing brain :-) OK, first things first, stackoverflow.com. This is a joint venture between Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood. It's a programmer's question and answer site. Probably the best description I've ... http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2009/05/31/stackoverflowcom-and-serverfaultcom/ I'm pleased to say that by the magic of yum, KDE has been automatically upgraded to version 4.2 on both my home box and my work laptop. At work, I can now use 2 screens again, thank goodness :-) The 2 screen set up is slightly different now to how it was ... http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2009/03/06/kde-42/ If you have a C43 AMG the battery lives in the boot. The previous generation C-class (1999 vintage) has a boot lock which tends to corrode which renders it unusable. Normally this is not too much of a problem because there's a button on the key-fob which opens the boot, ... http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2009/02/23/flat-batteries-on-a-mercedes-benz-c-class/ As you may have noticed, if you read this directly from my web site rather than via a reader, I've updated my Wordpress theme. I'm using TigerTom's SEO Citrus Wordpress Theme from http://www.tigertom.com/ So far I'm reasonably happy with it, but I'm not terribly keen on having post extracts rather than full ... http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2008/11/03/new-wordpress-theme/ I've just finished a post over on "From the keyboard of Dr Jan" about my recent visit to Stockholm. Check it out here: http://www.dr-jan.com/newblog/2008/10/22/hilton-stockholm-slussen/ http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2008/10/22/hilton-stockholm-slussen/ I've recently upgraded my home PC from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. One of the big benefits (apart from getting the very latest Firefox and Thunderbird packages) is that F9 features KDE 4, the latest version of the KDE desktop window manager. Fedora 9 To upgrade, I followed the excellent instructions at ... http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2008/09/25/fedora-9-and-kde-4/ Tonight I dined at the Yo! Sushi in Poland Street, London. It was completely fabulous! The key feature is a continuous conveyer belt which passes every table in the restaurant. On the conveyer belt tonight... is a never ending selection of dishes. These are mainly sushi, but lots of others too ... http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2008/07/27/yo/ When we visited Norwich recently, we had dinner at the Thai on the river restaurant. It's a floating restaurant, which adds an extra dimension to the occasion :-) The food was good and the prices were reasonable. All in all, recommended :-) http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2008/07/06/norwich-thai-restaurant/ I was recently reminded of the excellent 'units' program, available with all good Unix systems. Units will convert quantities expressed in one unit in to another unit. Here's an example: $ units 2439 units, 71 prefixes, 33 nonlinear units You have: 12 miles You want: kilometres * 19.312128 ... http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2008/06/11/units/ Previously on Twin Peaks I wrote about the problems I was having with the Lightning calendar add-on for the Thunderbird email client, to the extent that I had to un-install the add-on and the associated Google Data Provider add-on (which synchronises calendars between Lightning and Google Calendar). I'm pleased to report ... http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2008/04/24/thunderbird-and-lightning/