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Tilt wheel & Logitech mx610

I’ve got a Logitech MX610 cordless laser mouse. One of its nicer features is a tilt wheel. Unfortunately, this is still difficult to get working in Ubuntu Linux. The problems:

More power from your mobile's battery

I’m the happy owner of a Motorola Razr V3. Its battery used to last quite long, but now that it’s getting older it’s drained very quickly. At some point, I could charge it at night, talk a few minutes during the day, and when I got home in the evening the battery would be empty.

Uitmarkt 2007

There was a spectacular opening of the Uitmarkt in Amsterdam. Of all the photos I shot that evening, I’ve uploaded the best 11. Take a look at Uitmarkt 2007 - a photoset on Flickr.

Proper Exception handling

UPDATE 2019: The articles below have been taken offline. The articles below are about Java, but I think they apply equally well to other languages that have exception handling. It would be nice if more were to read those articles.

Highlighting the current line & column in VIM

It’s already in the VIM help file, but I never found it until now. To highlight the current row/line and the current column use this in your .vimrc: au WinLeave * set nocursorline nocursorcolumn au WinEnter * set cursorline cursorcolumn set cursorline cursorcolumn I found this quite useful while programming.

Encoding video for the iriver U10

I own an iriver U10. It’s a great device, that can play music and video. However, for some reason, none of the tutorials about encoding video for the iriver U10 worked.

Safely copy a SQLite database

It’s trivially easy to copy a SQLite database. It’s less trivial to do this in a way that won’t corrupt it. Here’s how: $ sqlite3 some.db sqlite> begin immediate; <press CTRL+Z> $ cp some.

Stuvel.eu moved to a better server

The Stuvel.eu website has moved from a 1 Mbit ADSL connection to a real server on a proper 100 Mbit link. If you read this message, the DNS entries have been updated and you’re looking at the new server.

Better RAW decoding with Digikam

My favourite photo editor and manager is Digikam. One of its features is easily importing RAW files. However, with its default settings you may loose details in brightly lit areas of your photos.

Flickr lens:type machine tag

I’m in the process of giving all my photos a “lens:type” machine tag on Flickr. This will indicate which lens I used to make the photo. Check it out: Canon 17-55 mm F/2.