soulsource's questions

I got a computer running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit with UEFI. Today (2013-09-21) I installed all updates that were available without carefully reading through the list (shame on me), since noone touched the computer for some weeks and the list was more than 100 items long...

I remember from another machine, that one of the updates changes the boot system on UEFI machines in order to always use shim, even if restricted boot is disabled.

Well, problem diagnosis is rather straightforward: Something went wrong with the bootloader update, although no error was given, and the Ubuntu entry went missing from the UEFI boot menu, making the computer try to boot in BIOS mode, of course failing. If I run efibootmgr from a bootable USB it only shows the BIOS boot mode for the HDD...

How do I restore the Ubuntu entry in the UEFI menu to make the machine bootable again?

I'd like to configure the GNU Mailutils mail program so that it operates on an already existing maildir directory. Currently my mailutils.rc looks like this:

mailbox{
        mailbox-pattern "maildir:///home/${user}/Maildir";
        mailbox-type maildir;
}

This allows me to read mail from that folder, but nevertheless, the mail program always moves all opened mails to /home/${user}/mbox. Is there a way to tell mail to keep the files at their original position?

I'd like to print and export (to pdf) a document written in LibreOffice Writer which contains SVG figures. On the screen, LibreOffice displays and scales them correctly, but for PDF export (which should support vector graphics natively) and printing (to a postscript printer) the SVGs get rasterized (facepalm) at a very low resolution. I have tried to enable "reduce bitmap resolution" and set it to 600 dpi, hoping that telling LO a definite number for the resolution might help, but there's no change.

How do I tell LibreOffice to export and print scalable vector graphics as vector graphics or at least to rasterize them at a usable resolution?

Here's a screenshot of LibreOffice Writer (zoom level 400%):

This is a screenshot of the pdf exported by LibreOffice Writer (again 400% zoom level):

When printed from LO, the graphics looks just like in the pdf.

For the moment I run Adobe Digital Editions under Wine to download ebooks burdened with ditigal restriction management. I only use it to open .acsm files supplied by ebook-shops, which contain authentication information required to download the actual DRM'ed ebook files, which I then transfer to my reader-device with calibre. My question is, if there exist open source alternatives to Adobe Digital Editions. They don't need much functionality. I just want to put the .acsm-file in and get the .epub out (no, I don't want to remove the drm, that'd be illegal afaik).