Archive for July, 2009
Lately Gmail has been become increasingly frustrating to use. When I check mail in the morning I have about 5 spam mails in my inbox. Even some from Viagra. Even worse, the number of false positives (ham classified as spam) has also been increasing so that I now at least once a day have to [ READ MORE ]
Theo de Raadt talks about the OpenBSD Releases Process. It’s short but sweet little interesting talk that touches a lot of different aspects about releasing software and doing development. I hightly recommended to anyone who cares about this field, that ought to mean any people doing software. They have a different way about thinking about [ READ MORE ]
Getting Chrome running in Ubuntu is now pretty easy, simple add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable main Then you can install Chrome using the package manager and it will keep itself updated. Sadly the browser is quite alpha (no flash, random errors, no tabs saving on exit) but they update it every week and [ READ MORE ]
I recently upgraded the harddrive in my trusty old IBM T60. I mirrored the hd using a little dd magic and everything worked fine, including the IBM rescue partition. The only thing that wasn’t working anymore was hibernation in Ubuntu. This was because it relied on wierd UUIDs instead of actual device names. Fixing it [ READ MORE ]
There’s an annoying problem in Ubuntu 9.04 that if you have set your machine to automatically login, but have a password on gnome keyring manager, then it will prompt you for the password before wireless is enabled. There is a bug about it here on launchpad. And as usual the Ubuntu guys doesn’t seem to [ READ MORE ]
I’m the founder of a small consultancy company with a strong focus on web applications. I’m also the founder of the community art site YayArt, that sells canvas and prints of digital art. My lovely girlfriends blog can be read here.
