Author Archives: Svenn-Arne Dragly

Getting a headless connection to a server

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

I just learnt how to get a headless connection to a server before it has even booted. This gives access to LUKS and LVM, giving the oppurtunity to decrypt an encrypted hard drive. The solution was in this blog post. … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird with Lightning on Ubuntu

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

I’m trying out Thunderbird with Lightning as my calendar application, but for some reason Lightning did not show up under Add-ons in Thunderbird. Instead I installed it by using the xul-ext-lightning package. However, this ended up with all options in … Continue reading →

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Nanoparticles available for Android and Mac OS X

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

As mentioned in the post about Nanoparticles for Android being just around the corner, I have been able to port Nanoparticles by using the Qt port for Android enabled by the Necessitas project. That’s why you can download Nanoparticles from … Continue reading →

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Deploy Qt applications for Mac OS X

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

This turned out to be really simple. I was trying to create a Mac OS X version of my game, Nanoparticles, and was having trouble with some flicker when running a QGraphicsView with OpenGL. The solution turned out to simply … Continue reading →

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Nanoparticles for Android is just around the corner

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Thanks to the great work of Bogdan Vatra and the Qt Developers working on Lighthouse, I have finally been able to create a running version of Nanoparticles on Android. Their efforts have led to the Necessitas project, a very user … Continue reading →

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Bookmarks in terminal

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Today I found a great tool to ease the navigation in terminal, called apparix. It lets you bookmark a folder so that you easily can navigate to it just by typing to nameofbookmark To install apparix in Ubuntu, type sudo … Continue reading →

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RewriteRule in .htaccess not working for cURL

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

For some strange reason I have experienced on one server that the RewriteRule in .htaccess is not working for cURL via the command line. The fix has been to add a User-Agent line to the header of the cURL command, … Continue reading →

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Fixing the volume treshold and intervals in Ubuntu on Dell XPS M1330

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

So the new Ubuntu version is finally out and as with every other time I’ve been upgrading from one version of Ubuntu to a new one, I keep forgetting how to fix the sound issue on the Dell XPS M1330. … Continue reading →

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Nanoparticles available for Nokia N9

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Finally the N9 is here. And so is Nanoparticles for the Nokia N9. You can over to Nokia Store to get a copy right now: Download Nanoparticles You can read more about Nanoparticles and download it for other platforms on … Continue reading →

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How to get things done with todo.txt

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

The simple answer to how you get things done is to actually do them. However, to do things in an organized manner is more easily said than done. Why? Because it is way too easy to drift away with less … Continue reading →

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