Monthly Archives: December 2009

Using UTF-8 with fithesis

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Lukáš Lalinský

My faculty has it’s own thesis LaTex style, which makes it very easy to get a decent looking thesis out of LaTeX without too much effort. The problem is that the style requires you to use ISO-8859-2 in your document, … Continue reading →

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Resizing a LVM swap volume

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Lukáš Lalinský

Another post mainly for myself, just so I know where to find the information quickly the next time I need it. If you have swap on a LVM volume, these commands can be used to resize it (in this case, … Continue reading →

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Redirect to Google’s OpenID

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Lukáš Lalinský

I’ve started using OpenID some time ago and I really like it. I was surprised that large companied like Google or Yahoo! are OpenID providers and that made me to try using Google’s OpenID. The first site I logged in … Continue reading →

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File names and Unicode

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Lukáš Lalinský

Dealing with file names in a cross-platform application is not easy. A question about using a file name in QString to create a new TagLib file came up on the TagLib development mailing list yesterday. The original problem was not … Continue reading →

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Stack Overflow Careers

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Lukáš Lalinský

When I have some free time and I’m bored, I try to help people at Stack Overflow.  Recently the owners of Stack Overflow launched a site where you can post your CV, which are linked to your Stack Overflow account, … Continue reading →

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