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• 05.04.10
  Ubuntu 10.4 – up with only one quirk so far   Geekyness, Linux, Open Source (0)

  This morning I let my Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade itself to 10.4. The upgrade itself ran fine with only a few interruptions where I had to confirm or deny changes to configuration files for PHP etc.
  As I landed at the office and hooked up the laptop (Thinkpad T61P) however, my external monitor was flickering a lot. [...]

• 04.29.10
  Will ideas of the Massachusetts law spread?   MySQL, Open Source, Software design, Web (0)

  On reddit, I found this article regarding a new law i Massachusetts that is to increase the security of personally identifiable information.
  If you have personally identifiable information (PII) about a Massachusetts resident, such as a first and last name, then you have to encrypt that data on the wire and as it’s persisted. Sending PII [...]

• 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 [...]

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