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BCFP 16G Beta Exam Material

After the announcement of the available material Fabric OS 7.0.0a has been released. On the page http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-2041 only the first revision of the 7.0 release notes is available. The BCFA 16G beta course material is also available, probably a good idea to …

  • 2011-07-13
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Reading encrypted/password protected pdf on Linux

The problematic PDF The CFP300 material on http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-2041 is encrypted so that it cannot be printed/re-edited without a password. If you try to open this with evince (default .pdf viewer in Gnome) it will ask for a password. pdftotext (comes with the software suite …

Ubuntu + Automatic Software Updates

How often do you actually log on to your machine - hit sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade without reading what the changes are? I do it every time, unless it's a dist-upgrade we're talking about. So how do we get this going? The tool you're looking for is called cron-apt …


  • 2011-07-08
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Aurora 7 - The future Firefox

Just got an update on Aurora (it's like daily builds of the latest mozilla - with all the nice updates). I've been running it since they made it available and I have not had any issues with it. The only slightly annoying is that almost daily (if you restart the web …


Fantasy Book Review - Steven Erikson - The Crippled God - Part 1

Warning: this post contains spoilers if you haven't read Dust of Dreams or the previous books in the series Malazan Book of the Fallen. This post is part of a series, I will create additional one throughout the book (basically I'm just testing which is best: use one post and …

Buying Kindle in Finland

On the 28th I purchased it around 1900. Today on the 30th at 0820 it arrived in the airport in Helsinki. Also yesterday somebody called and said it would come this week. Update: It's now on the way to my work! Got it around 12 or so. Less than 48 …

Music of the Day - 30th of June - poprockindie

Young the Giant - My Body # I like the first comment on the youtube - "When i heard this song for the first time i automatically loved it. Not very many songs can do that.". What I didn't like was was written on the blog where I found the song: "That's a …

Fantasy Book Review - Steven Erikson - Dust of Dreams

Grabbed this book a week or two ago and have been steadily pulling myself through it. Not done yet, some 300 pages left. I have crappy memory so if I write down what's going on right now, maybe that will help me remember the book later :) It is the 9th …