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Optimizing, it ain’t easy, but somebody’s got to do it!

Some problems can be solved by throwing big money at them. When it comes to storage performance, it could be spending your bucks on faster and/or more disks, or paying someone to optimize your environment. For people like me, that’s … Continue reading

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Sending fax transmissions via LibreOffice

As we were upgrading a Linux fax server machine, we noticed that sending facsimiles directly from LibreOffice wasn’t available for the client machines. But unlike with earlier versions of the Office suites, this time it seemed more complicated to get … Continue reading

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openSuSE 12.1, VoIP via Ekiga and a Bluetooth headset

Amongst many other things, we’re thinking about a video phone/conferencing solution for our traveling users. The project hasn’t had too much attention in the last months, but received much support lately, leading to both progress and demand. Expectedly, we’re running … Continue reading

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