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the disk of my vps is running out of space i had no idea what was the cause http://wiki.debian.org/FreeSpace gave me the hint to use ncdu. it was dead easy to find out a directory is using quite the half space i have in my vps. ncdu is great! thanks to Yoran Heling. by the way... the disk was filled by the podcatcher. i forgot podget which harvested some podcasts since 2010 ... i wrote about it http://debianisttoll.blogspot.com/2010/06/castget-podget-podcatcher-usable-with.html . podget is great.

If use some apps which create mediafiles which appear after some time in the mp3 player.... and just hitting play all stopped to make fun because it also plays non-music-mp3s... Solution - Exclude Directories from Media Scanner: Create in every Directory which you want to exclude a file with the name .nomedia . You can use something like es explorer to do that. or you can use http://market.android.com/details?id=ch.droida.nomedia after that you have to restart your phone to get your change recognized by your system (media scan should run on startup) in my case i had to clear the data of the application media storage: Go to settings. Click All Applications tab. Click Media Storage. Click Clear Data. Click OK.

if you get a cad plan in pdf format you have a problem: Pdf can not be loaded in most cad programs. I used pstoedit to solve this problem. Pstoedit is a free tool to convert pdfs to dxf. What you have to do: Install pstoedit Install ghostscript shot at your pdfs: pstoedit.exe <pdfSource> <dxfOutput> -f dxf thanks to the author of pstoedit! Here is the pstoedit.exe -help output: No output format specified (-f option) and format could not be uniquely deduced from suffix .dxf of output file Available formats :     psf:            .fps:    Flattened PostScript (no curves)     (built-in) -------------------------------------------     ps:            .spsc:    Simplified PostScript with curves     (built-in) -------------------------------------------     debug:         ...

I found a way to encode to mp4 and h264 with mencodersharp. Videoparameter: -vf dsize=16/9,scale=-10:-1,harddup -of lavf -lavfopts format=mp4 -ovc x264 -sws 9 -x264encopts nocabac:level_idc=30:bframes=0:bitrate=512:threads=auto:turbo=1:global_header:threads=auto Audioparameter: -oac faac -faacopts mpeg=4:object=2:raw:br=128 This worked with an mpeg2ps stream as source. See http://code.google.com/p/mencoder-sharp for mencodersharp

German windows 7 + German TFS 2012 Express setup = German Errormessage (Error TF254027: TFS Install and Language Restrictions in SQL Server (Express)) English Windows 7 + English TFS 2012 Express setup = Success German Windows 7 + English TFS 2012 Express setup = Success WTF ? read: http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fsocial.msdn.microsoft.com%2FForums%2Fes-ES%2Fvcses%2Fthread%2F6659406c-3fc5-4ddf-9904-ecbff723fc5b%2F or read: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2012/10/23/tfs-install-and-language-restrictions-in-sql-server-express.aspx i did not read and burned some time by setting up from cratch :|

Free Extensions i use freqently: AnkSVN     is a SVN Client integrated in the solutionbrowser GhostDoc     Is a tool which creates commentstubs SHFB     Toolset to to create helpfiles of your code by pulling your coments Visual Achivments     socialices your programming Wix Toolset     ... most promising setupproject replacement (VS 2012 kicked the Setupproject)