Rabbit's Revenge
Last month (30th of May, to be precise), the Blender Peach Project published its movie online. Ten days before that enthusiasts could already order the dvd of this second Open Movie, but odds are that most of the community was probably rooting for the online event. I saw the movie yesterday and, since it was apparently missed by the t.net news queue, I thought I should give it some love. And believe me, the movie deserves it.
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Cleaning up version-controlled directories
When writing LaTeX documents, you often end up with all kinds of redundant files. These files are generated during the compilation of a dvi or a pdf document and can generally be discarded afterwards. Most of my tex documents are under version control and, consequently, it is possible to get a list of the files that are (and are not) under this control. Using a single Bash command, you can abuse subversion to determine which files you want to delete:
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Saxion en CAA, losmakelijk verbonden 
Zoals ik al eerder schreef, was boterde het niet lekker tussen het door CAA-beveiligde netwerk van het Saxion en Linux-gebruikers. Servers die toegankelijk waren via het Internet werden afgeschermd voor het interne netwerk en Linux-gebruikers werden min of meer gedwongen om door allerlei hoepels te springen om hun werk normaal te doen. Sinds kort niet meer: de weg naar de schoolwebsites, de Subversion-server en de Linux-systemen is twee dagen geleden vrijgemaakt voor Saxion-gebruikers zonder CAA 
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Requirement list in Latex
This is just a small trick I have used in my last LaTeX-document to make separate list-environments keep incrementing, depending on the numbers of the previous list-environment. I think it is a bit hard to explain, so I will try to do by explaining the reason I needed this feature.
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Fun with Synaptics
If you have ever worked with a laptop, you are bound to have played with it's touchpad. It is often configured to generate scroll events when placing a finger along the right and bottom side of the touchpad, as well as single click events when tapping on the touchpad with your finger. However, this is only the tip of the iceberg with things you can convince your driver to do.
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