René Samselnig's Weblog

Yesterday our two new 80GB harddisks (Western Digital) arrived and we wanted to switch our system to use them. So I stopped all services, made a system halt and put the new disks in there. Additionally we wanted to have a software RAID to get a redundant system. But the two disks didn’t like to do what we wanted them to do – to boot from them… Continue reading

This week our server broke down. The harddrive made sounds like hammering their heads against the disc – which of course is not good. So we had to find another harddisk. Fortunately I had kind of a spare computer at home which has a lot more harddisk space available (60GB instead of the poor 30GB drive we had). So we switched to this computer. Continue reading

Hi folks. I’ve been working on fotoalbum to improve themes and using custom style sheets. Check it out, it is now capable of a new theme called sdm-fixed (which will evolve in the following versions of fotoalbum). Please send me feedback on how it works and how it could be improved. Continue reading

Apple announced its new iPod a few days ago. And I saw it today and thought “Wow – how can they do that?”. Its size is smaller than the original iPod, the screen size increased to watch video, its capacity increased and is now available from 30GB to 60GB and the price is at an ultimate low: it starts at $299 in the US. When is it going to be available in europe? With all the new accessories (Camera Connector, AV Cable, …) it is the perfect companion when you’re not at home.

Inkscape is a very simple yet powerful vector graphics program. You can create and edit any svg image and even include other images in it. It is easy to use – it took me about an hour to create this icon although I had no previous Inkscape knowledge. I also tried out some advanced functions as gradients and drawing bezier curves. It was really fun creating an icon, maybe I’ll create my own for my fotoalbum. Continue reading