Archive for October, 2007

Oct
18
Filed Under (sustainable?) by ge on 25-04-2007

It just works. Independence from coal and nuclear power is indeed possible by a combination of the four renewable energy types since this intelligent combination is super-sufficient concerning the coverage of the overall energy requirement.



Oct
03
Filed Under (IT) by ge on 25-04-2007

Some minutes after I had opened some lecture notes in a PDF file (10MB/2300 pages) in Adobe Reader 8.1.1 for Linux GNOME notified me that 100% of my home partition are consumed.

Eh?

Baobab then revealed that ~/.adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Temp took more than 10GB in my home directory! I subsequently deleted all files in that directory and, strangely enough, after I had deleted these and restarted Adobe Reader I had to reaccept the licence and the complete history of opened files has gone.

Dear Adobe,

  • under Linux there is a directory named /tmp which is precisely conceived for the storage of temporary files,
  • and the usual approach to store user-based info is in a text file in ~/.{appname} or similar.