Volker Braun
I'm currently PostDoc at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. Starting this fall I'll be at the Dublin IAS in Ireland. My research is in the area of string theory.
Contact
New Address
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
10 Burlington Road
Dublin 4
Ireland
Trackpoint scroll with Fedora 9
Sun, 05/18/2008 - 13:32 — VolkerThe trackpoint the red knob in the middle of Thinkpad keyboards, its one of the best mouse alternatives I've ever seen. You don't ever have to move your hand away from the home row!
One of the features of the windows driver is that you can hold the middle mouse button down and push the trackpoint up/down to scroll. This is really convenient, and of course I'd like to use it everywhere. But it is not a hardware function, and must be simulated by the driver.
R.I.P
Fri, 05/16/2008 - 11:31 — VolkerThe harddisk in my desktop at work has been slowly dying for some time now, giving funky error messages in the log. And the SMART output is getting scary. The drive is a 120GiB IBM Deskstar, made in May 2002. It is going to retire today.
Fedora 9 Essentials
Wed, 04/16/2008 - 17:44 — VolkerFedora 9 is out and works great on my laptop. But not all software that I end up using is installed by default. I have enabled the following additional repositories:
