Monthly Archives: January 2008
Once upon a time (firefox location-bar-searching)
Once upon a time, the Mozilla webbrowser allowed specifying the searchengine using a shortcut, you just typed your query into the location-bar, pressed “down” and Mozilla suggested asking Google about it. The SearchWords extension brings something way better to Firefox: … Continue reading
vimdiff plugin for Bazaar (nice!)
Bazaar is generally the way to go if it comes to the question of version control systems – at least if you ask me for the direction to go .This thing makes the already rocking bazaar-vcs rock even more. Software … Continue reading
No recovery for Ext3 – well almost none
Since journaling filesystems should not have only advantages about the old simple ones, filerecovery became a lot more difficult with most of them. XFS and Ext3 are pretty difficult to recover files from – especially, when they are not text … Continue reading
Doing bibliography the way I always wanted
Zotero is a really excellent tool for managing your literature, right where you stumble upon it – in you (favourite) Browser (which is mozilla-firefox of course).
Making backup using rdiff-backup
Since I just had some very bad experiences concerning backups, I wrote a little cronjob invoking the brilliant rdiff-backup. Now I am (hopefully) save from myself.