Free 50 000 Word Finnish-English Offline Dictionary KOKO

Download Finnish-English dictionary koko.dsl. KOKO has over 50 000 terms about business, public administration and many other special areas. I converted the dictionaries from ontologies provided by Finto project. You can use koko.dsl and other dictionaries with GoldenDict. Also check … Continue reading

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Convert Vector EPS Images to PNG Bitmap

Mogrify can convert hundreds of images with a single command. To get decent quality bitmap PNG from vector EPS, you must set the density parameter. $ mogrify -format png -density 300 -resize 1024 *.eps

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Automatically Install a List of Software to Windows – Chocolatey Puppet Provider

Install Windows programs just by listing them: package {[“gedit”, “firefox”, “skype”, “vlc”]:} Puppet can manage Windows slaves. Choco is a limited package manager for Windows. This article shows how to use Choco from Puppet.

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Windows 10 as a Puppet Slave for Ubuntu 16.04 Master

Puppet can control Windows 10 slaves, making it much easier to administer Windows boxes. This article shows how to configure Windows 10 as a Puppet slave for an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS xenial master.

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Kim & Max Won the Wellbeing Hackathon – with Robot Vision

Kim & Max Salmi won the Wellbeing Hackathon 2016. Their solution uses cheap webcam to detect old people falling and alert help. The implementation is Python and OpenCV, so you can easily read his work without being an expert in … Continue reading

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DConf – System Wide Configuration for Linux Desktop Apps

Some Linux desktop applications use dconf configuration. For example, dconf is used by programmer’s text editor Gedit and desktop backup program Deja-dup. This post shows you how to extract your current settings and make them system wide. As the configuration … Continue reading

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Git trick: Colored Web Page with Changes Highlighted

With git, you can create a web page with changed words highlighted. Red==removed, green==added. When you have found a colleague, friend or a supervisor who can provide useful feedback, great! When you make the changes and ask for more feedback, … Continue reading

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Hello CFEngine – CFengine3 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial

This article shows you how to install CFEngine 3 on Ubuntu and write a simple “Hello World” program. Modern configuration management systems let your describe your infrastructure as code in an idempotent way. You define the target state of your … Continue reading

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So Many Slaves: 455 Docker, 100 VirtualBox, 65 physical workstations, 50 VPS

Nikolai has 455 slaves in Docker containers. Joona has 100 slaves in VirtualBox, Joonas and Matilda have 60 slaves, Heikki has 21. This an ongoing competition for the students of my configuration management courses.

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Resolve Merge Conflict with 'git mergetool' and meld

If you work with your friends on the same git repository, you might edit the same file. If you edit the bottom and your friend edits the top, git merges the changes automatically. If two users edit the same line, … Continue reading

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