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• 11.08.09
  Karmic Koala – post install notes   Linux, Networks, Open Source, Performance (0)

  Installed Ubuntu 9.10 a few days ago. Everything seemed OK (very very nice actually) except for a little network performance glitch that may also bother you.  Canonical has once again taken Linux one step further away from the status of geek-challenge to a user friendly alternative to other OS’es.
  One thing bothered me though – general [...]

• 05.06.09
  Javascript performance on current browsers   Geekyness, Linux, Performance, Software design, Web, Windows (1)

  Found this little test which gives an indicator as to Javascript performance in your browser.
  On my system (Windows XP on two year old Lenovo T60p laptop) i tried to run it ten times on my browsers with all plugins disabled (lower is better):
  Google Chrome: 297,7Firefox 3.5 beta 4: 340Firefox 3.0.10: 408,9Internet Explorer 8: 631,3
  As the [...]

• 02.22.09
  Netbooks – the necessary new design test-tool   Geekyness, Linux, Netbooks, Open Source, Software design, Tips, Web (0)

  Writing this on my Lenovo S10e netbook, I am furious. It’s before mid-day and yet I have had two experiences of software designs that did not consider netbooks a platform – or at least the new low screen resolution these computers imply. And before you call me a whiner (besides the fact that you’d be [...]

• 01.26.09
  Netbooks growing up   Geekyness, Linux, Netbooks, Open Source, Windows (0)

  This post is written on my new netbook – a Lenovo ideapad s10e. Actually I had given up on netbooks. My first one was an Asus EEE PC 900 with SSD and that machine was a serious disappointment. I have always liked Asus hardware, mainly because it is extremly well updated with software. That was [...]

• 01.11.09
  Ubuntu two-finger scrolling   Geekyness, Linux, Open Source, Tips (0)

  My brother is now a fairly long time Mac-user. I haven’t gone down that road (yet). Last night he was here and i showed him my Asus EEE (which is currently running Ubuntu 8.10).
  “Cool” – he said. “It supports two-finger-scrolling”. I didn’t know, but he is right. Googling for it found me this. Apparently the [...]

• 09.12.07
  Generate PDF files from PHP   Geekyness, LAMP, Linux, Open Source, Tips, Web (0)

  For a web project I needed to create invoices, to be downloaded or e-mailed to clients in PDF format. The platform is PHP and the documentation for this almost exclusively describe PDFLib for this purpose. I am sure PDFLib is fine, and the tutorials that come with the package looks really good.
  But..
  You pay for PDFLib [...]

• 05.01.07
  Simple VPN setup   Geekyness, Linux, Networks (0)

  Up until today, I have had to make important files from the shares of my home Linux server available as Windows Offline files to have them readily available on the road. I could sftp to my home server and fetch the files, but with the overhead of having to remember to actively upload the files [...]

• 04.20.07
  Feisty Fawn screen resolution issues   Linux (4)

  Important: Before you begin, back up your xorg.conf file – a misconfiguration may leave you without a GUI.
  Apparently Ubuntu 7.04 does not know either my graphics card (Intel 810) and/or monitor (Dell FP1701). The monitor – one of Dell’s first flat panels – only supports 1280×1024 @ 60Hz, or for some reason 1024×768 @ 75Hz. [...]

• 04.19.07
  Focus focus   Geekyness, Linux (0)

  I like to keep stuff separated, so this blog will contain observations and hopefully conversations about IT, geeky stuff and social software. As I am writing this, I have just completed downloading Ubuntu Linux 7.04 which was released today. Their site still have symptoms of quite a heavy load, as the most of the (geeky) [...]

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