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Ferry Boender

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Archive for December 2005

Backup v0.5

Even though it’s unmaintained, I still added a new version of the Backup script: version 0.5. Changes include: Complete rewrite Much stuff moved to functions Pre, post, pre_each and post_each script support added.

Information harvested by NSA larger than acknowledged

From Slashdot: The New York Times is reporting that the “volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged.” The NSA gained the cooperation of many American telecommunication companies after 9/11 to access streams of communication, both domestic and international, as a […]

MBNetFS

MBNetFS 0.3.0. SMBNetFS is a user-space filesystem for Linux that allows you browse a Samba/Microsoft network much like the network neighborhood in Microsoft Windows. All I can say is.. Finally!

MySQL storage engine woes

Are you suffering from mysteriously failing insert queries due to foreign key constraints errors in MySQL? Have you noticed spontaneous table storage engine changes from InnoDB to MyISAM, but can’t figure out why they’re happening? You may be coming under the influence of the MySQL Command Center which, when altering a table via the Edit […]

Joymaster

I’ve put v0.1, a preview release, of Joymaster online. Joymaster lets you control (X) windows using your joystick. Other programs like this already exist, but Joymaster takes a different approach. First of all, it watches the currently focussed window to see which buttons should perform what actions. This means you can have joystick controls perform […]

OpenOffice needs a draft-mode

There’s one thing OpenOffice.org lacks that both Word and WordPerfect have: a draft mode where you don’t have to see page breaks and unnecessary layout visuals. To me, this seems like such a basic and important feature. My needs for formatting and fancy features are practically nonexistent–I just want to concentrate on my writing. OpenOffice […]

How Google fucked up USENET

How Google fucked up USENET (newsgroups): Replying to a post somehow doesn’t quote the original post, resulting in a lot of posts like this: Yes! Totally! Good idea No, that’s incorrect. It’s actually ment for something else etc. In other words.. a total loss of context. EACH message I checked which didn’t quote context was […]

A DO and a DON’T for OO programming

Here’s a little DON’T hint for OO programming: Don’t use classes to cut up your program. Here’s a little DO hint for OO programming: DO use classes to create small libraries which are all seperate entities that your program uses (and, in essence, consists of) When writing a program, ask yourself this: “Can I seperate […]

Torvalds: Use KDE

In an e-mail mailinglist discussion on listing, Linus Torvalds wrote the following: > Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are > intentionally mot listed in the printing dialog, the > usability team of GNOME was against listing these options. > They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing than > useful […]

OfficialWire: Rectify the article?

I e-mailed the following to OfficialWire to see if they hold themselves accountable for faulty news reporting: In your news story titled ‘It’s Your Story…You Tell It Anyway You Want On Wikipedia’ the following claim is made: “After four months, Seigenthaler was finally able to get Wales to remove the offending piece from Wikipedia and […]

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