This Blagh will go down tomorrow

In order to combat SOPA, some kind of censorship texan kind of stupid thing. Anyway from what I understand of it it’s evil and so I protest against it. (Hopefully this #@%@plugin works)

Update 22/01/12: It seemed to have worked, and there’s good news too. SOPA/PIPA will be delayed for the time being, hurray! \0/

Installing Kile on CentOs 6.0 x64

It’s simple!

Go to http://pkgs.repoforge.org/kile/

Click on kile-2.0.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm ; et voila kile!

Happy new year!

Happy new year!

Happy new year everyone! I celebrated new year’s eve in Schiedam. A nice town next to Rotterdam, known for it’s mill and yearly bonfire.

For some new-years impressions here are some pictures:

http://www.weazle.nl/gallery/index.php?album=Oud-en-Nieuw-2011

 

Installing KeepassX on CentOS 6.0

Download the tarball from the website : http://www.keepassx.org/downloads

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install qt-devel
yum install libXtst-devel

unpack the tarball somewhere
qmake-qt4 && make && make install

Under Gnome, select the .kdb file - Open with other application
Use a custom command : browse to /usr/bin/keepassx

Restore files with extundelete (Ext3/Ext4)

Restore files on ext3/ext4 filesytem

Due to my own stupidity I accidently deleted a file on my ext4 filesystem, googling for an answer I found extundelete.

What follows is a quick howto (which I hope is complete) for the installation under Ubuntu 11.04 (Debian derative). It worked in so far that it restored a recently deleted text file amongst all the other deleted files (make sure you have enough diskspace).

Installation

Download extundelete from: http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/

Dependencies under Ubuntu (gcc,make etc. and e2fslibs-dev)

  • apt-get install build-essential
  • apt-get install e2fslibs-dev

# tar xvjf extundelete-0.2.0.tar.bz2
# cd extundelete-0.2.0
# ./configure && make && make install

# umount <filesystem>

Preparation

After the installation make sure the filesystem (ext3/ext4) is not mounted. This example is for a ext4 filesystem:
# umount < mountpoint filesystem>
(if you’re in a hurry: umount -l <mountpoint filesystem>

Check the filesystem for errors:
# fsck.ext4 /dev/xxx

Go to a mounted filesystem with enough diskspace (estimated)for the output (df -h)

Running extundelete

Restore deleted files with:
# extundelete /dev/xxx –journal –restore-all

You can probably do this more precise. With this command it dumps everything in a new directory called RECOVERED_FILES. After a while you will see files popping up like black magic in this directory. You can access the restored file structure and files and what not (e.g for /home : Documents, Pictures, Downloads etc.) and hopefully you’ll find the file(s) you were looking for still in a proper shape.

Video Blog of Peter Jackson – The Making of The Hobbit

A fellow geek pointed me to this video on the internets of the video blog Peter Jackson is making about the production/preparation stages of this movie. It’s actually fun to watch and it now I think of it, maybe future episodes will contain some of the theory as portrayed in the book Making movies ( a dutch book, ISBN10 9080555134).

Links to Video episodes

THE HOBBIT, Production Video #1

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150223186041807

Production Video #2 from the set of THE HOBBIT, 8 July 2011.

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150314562706807

Production Video #3 from the set of THE HOBBIT, 20 July 2011

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150326323406807