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If you want to resize images in kubuntu, you might want to install the KIM tools
sudo aptitude install konq-kim
Your konqueror will now have right-click context menus from kim under Actions. You can resize, transform pictures, save them in different formats, create albums and much more. Very easy, quick and useful! (You can, of course, mark […]

So, finally, KATRIN was moved into the hall. The roof of the hall had been removed, so the crane could lift the spectrometer straight into it.

Yesterday, I told you of KATRINs arrival. Today, KATRIN was moved to its position in front of the hall into which a crane will lift it tomorrow. Of course, I didn’t bring my camera but the nahdy camera did quite well. So here are some more pictures. When we came back, the convoy was already […]

KATRIN is much like AC/DCs Rosie:
She ain’t exactly pretty
She ain’t exactly small

A collection of 15 riddles. Scroll down a bit for the riddles. Don’t look at the answers!

What do you do when you want to post something and have no content in your head? Alright, you post YouTube videos. Here’s a wagon load of videos, today even embedded. But to spare the main page the loading time, you can see them after the jump:

Especially in discussions of global warming, one can often see the argument “computer models have never worked”. I think most often these people have wrong expectations about models. Maybe in their mind, they see some hollywood-ish animations that jump out of the computer by pressing a button and illustrate in Technicolor how the future will […]

If you think about trying Ubuntu, you can find help at Ubuntu Forums. You can ask any question there, especially in the absolute beginner talk forum they ahev a policy of helping absolutely everyone in a friendly way.
I like that, you don’t find forums like that often.
I use Ubuntu now for almost all tasks, and […]

I just discovered the band Squealer. They are a german band and play a strong type of german Power Metal. Their singer Andreas Allendörfer, called Henner, tragically died in a car accident last year. The band now works under the name Squealer A.D. and released a new album which I was fortunate enough to buy […]