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Ferry Boender

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Archive for July 2005

Firefox scandal! Read all about it!

This article on News.com is pretty funny. Is it just me, or does this article make it sound like some major scandal was uncovered? It’s friggin’ foxgate! :-) The open-source Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client will be updated for the second time in a week because of code changes that have unintentionally stopped some […]

Debian Unstable X.org causing conflicts (Update)

Hm. Yesterday I wrote about X.org entering Debian Unstable. Turns out though that it’s still causing a lot of conflicts. So far most notably with Xine and various display libraries. Better wait a while before upgrading to X.org. More information about this problem on slashdot. Update: The totem-xine problems and probably many other related to […]

Saner log entry headlines please?

I have a small request to the world. Can we please have some saner blog entry headlines please? These: “HTML_AJAX” “Come on, that’s all? – Tobias Schlitt” headlines tell me absolutely nothing! The first one’s obviously about something called HTML_AJAX, but what’s it about exactely? Just generally about HTML_AJAX? Then make the headline “About HTML_AJAX”. […]

Link ads – An awful new trend

There are a lot of things I hate about the internet: Internet Explorer only pages, pages with lots of animated gifs, sites hosted at geocities, Flash intro’s on webpages, anything Flash in general, websites with 90% bullshit and only 10% of the screen used for real contents, etc. But the thing I hate most of […]

Debian Unstable X.org causing conflicts

Hm. Yesterday I wrote about X.org entering Debian Unstable. Turns out though that it’s still causing a lot of conflicts. So far most notably with Xine and various display libraries. Better wait a while before upgrading to X.org.

GNU Source Installer

A new project, the GNU Source Installer, popped up. […] a graphical tool which provides configuration, compilation, installation, tracking and removal of source packages. Basically, it’s a front-end to configure && make && make install. This screenshot describes it best. But the cool part is de-installation and easy access to information on installed packages. This […]

Virtual Desktops for Windows

GNU/Linux window managers almost always have a feature built in called virtual desktops. The first time I installed GNU/Linux, I was immediatelly in love with this feature. It increases the ease of use of your desktop by such a large factor that I absolutely cannot work without this feature. Unfortunatelly, such a feature is not […]

X.org enters Debian Unstable

X.org has finally entered Unstable (Sid) version of Debian. It’s been available for testing from people.debian.org before. I recently – yesterday as a matter of fact – installed it from there, since it wasn’t available from the main debian archives yet, and everything worked rather nicely. This is also the first X server I’ve ever […]

DataQ v0.1

I’ve written a small message and data queueing server in Python. It has a fairly simple text-based protocol featuring single line commands like ‘PUSH queuename This is a message‘. It features FILO and FIFO queues and various queue restricitions like size restrictions, etc. The basic idea behind DataQ is to make it easy to have […]

The innovating BBC

From a slashdot article: “According to BBC News, the second series of “The Mighty Boosh” will be available to stream from the 19th of July, A full week before starting its run on BBC 3. And then a comment from one of the slashdot readers: It’s ironic that a socialist funded network can innovate faster […]

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