Thursday, December 25, 2008

personal reminder: Convert Nikon NEF to JPG with ufraw

$ ufraw-batch --out-type=jpeg --out-path=/home/itsme/Pictures/export --compression=85 --size=1280 /media/Data/home/itsme/Pictures/MyPics/*.nef
for more details cf. http://otype.net/2008/08/convert-nikon-nef-to-jpg-with-ufraw/

Monday, December 8, 2008

howto copy CalendarServer (content) - use rdiff-backup

rsynced a complete and functional copy of CalendarServer to another drive (and to another file system). afterwards, the server started and didn't complain but iCal.app didn't show any calendar (but still logged in and didn't complain about anything - just no calendar!).

tryied rsync -aA, rsync -rlpAtgoD (long version - one never knows...), and cp -a - but all to no avail.

finally, i tried rdiff-backup -b - and this worked... why? not quite sure! ideas welcome....

Friday, December 5, 2008

personal reminder: building debian packages from source

...for future reference:
  1. apt-get source (-t testing) PACKAGENAME
  2. apt-get build-dep (-t testing) PACKAGENAME
  3. cd PACKAGANAME-version
  4. OPT: vi debian/rules (e.g. to activate some experimental features)
  5. OPT: vi debian/patches/00list (to enlist a patch that should be applied)
  6. OPT: vi debian/patches/... (the patch enlisted previosly)
  7. dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
  8. dpkg -i ../PACKAGENAME-version-etc (only the necessary packages)