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Acrobat Reader and the decimal comma problem

When printing a PDF file, Acrobat Reader creates a Postscript and sends it to the printer spooler (or, optionally to a file). Nothing new here, as it’s a common way for Unix programs to print files.
However, I found that under certain circumstances the Postscript file was corrupt: it could not be printed or opened with […]

User-mode Linux and skas0

User-mode Linux (UML) is a port of Linux to its own system call interface. In short, it’s a system that allows to run Linux inside Linux.
UML is integrated in the standard Linux tree, so it’s possible to compile an UML kernel from any recent kernel sources (using ‘make ARCH=um‘).
Traditionally, UML had a working mode which […]