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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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 11.05.07
  Magpie RSS/Snoopy problem finally solved   LAMP, Open Source, Tips (0)

  MagpieRSS IS great – I like it a lot, and it almost does exactly what you need to aggregate RSS feeds from PHP. MagpieRSS has one achilles heel in Snoopy. MagpieRSS relies on Snoopy as the HTTP-client (browser-component) that fetches feeds from websites – be it RSS or Atom formatted – It fetches files from [...]

• 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 [...]

• 08.31.07
  MySQL query/indexing tip   LAMP, MySQL, Open Source, Performance (0)

  I originally learned about this MySQL shortcoming in the book High Performance MySQL, and luckily I remembered it for an issue that struck me today.
  I have two tables – one containing blog-posts, and one containing a record for each tag on these posts. Now the requirement was to show a blog post AND to show [...]

• 06.21.07
  Light-weight XML editor   Open Source, Tips (0)

  I was looking for an XML editor to perform a few simple tasks. Since i worked heavily with XML a few years ago, the Windows XML editor of choice is apparently still the Altova XML Spy. You can get it to do anything with XML (except – i think – transform XML to coffee). Negative [...]

• 06.06.07
  Why are Wiki’s so darn ugly?   Geekyness, Open Source, Web, Wiki (0)

  I am a Wiki-virgin. Not in the sense of being a wiki-reader/contributor, but today I set up my first Wiki which is about to go online. Wiki’s based on the MediaWiki software (which is also used for WikiPedia) are actually skinable, but as content usually is king in Wiki land, very few operators make an [...]

• 04.26.07
  Open Source time registration and tracking   Achievo, Open Source (0)

  I am in the middle of a project with a client – a project to improve their time usage registration procedures. They had been looking at several commercial solutions – all requiring customizations – most of them costing “an arm and a leg”.
  They actually started a project with one vendor who thought they could deliver, [...]

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