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  • 2011-03-22
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Firefox 4.0 is here! - Or - I went with Google-Chrome instead

Firefox download links: Windows http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%204.0.exe Linux http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-4.0.tar.bz2 Mac http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases …

Playstation 3 - it's purty

Got one this weekend, together with Gran Turismo 5 and Little Big Planet (or something like that), we've only played GT 5 so far but it's pretty darn amazing! It's quite hard but we do win - complete the challenges in the beginner level at least ;) Altogether quite expensive stuff, but …

  • 2011-03-18
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DWM - start up script that works with GDM login manager

Goal: Be able to exit DWM and get back to the GDM - gnome login manager. To be able to hit MODKEY+SHIFT+Q, exit dwm and get me back to the login manager. Where I can chose another user or window manager. Or if I make a change in dwm …

DWM - not your average mainstream window manager

Have been playing around with a new window manager (new as in for me, I've only used fluxbox, kde and gnome before) called DWM - see more information on www.suckless.org. I'm running it on a T400 with RHEL6 (which uses gnome login manager - gde). Basically if you want to …

DWM editing the bar to show time

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources while true; do # BAT=$(acpi | awk '{ print $4 }' | sed s/","//g) CLK=$( date +'%H:%M') # xsetroot -name "$BAT | $CLK" xsetroot -name "$CLK" sleep 1 done | while true; do ~/bin/dwm; done Hello from future Johan, the above also looks super weird. Think these days I just run …

  • 2011-03-12
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Virtualbox - Free OS Virtualization

Had the opportunity to try out virtualbox the other day on RHEL. I really liked the part that the rpm that I downloaded was signed and I had to import the signature to be able to install the package! Feels safe. Install did not cause any other problems for me …

WD buys Hitachi GST

Linky to the register "Western Digital is buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $4.25bn in a friendly takeover ..." Hitachi GST has quite a few home-based disk products which do look interesting. Hitachi GST's page is very slow at the moment (2011-03-07 22:06 EET) - it even stopped responding. Maybe …

  • 2011-03-09
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Drupal 7

Just installed Drupal 7 on a Debian Virtual Machine. It's so clean and it just feels very solid. Lots of things you can do in there. Probably a good idea to check out drupal's own description of their software before doing anything serious with it. I liked this description: "Drupal …

Movie Review - The Man Without a Past

Kotimainen Elokuva- Mies vailla menneisyyttä [by Aki Kaurismäki] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mies_vailla_menneisyytt%C3%A4 Black Comedy? We decided to take a peak at it because it was nominated/won an Oscar under 'foreign film'. So it should be good then right? Turns out they of course can be …

Science!

Linksies! Planets: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/117984/20110302/kepler-finds-strange-worlds-fastest-planet.htm Imagine a year being only 10 days! I'd be sooo old! Roughly one thousand years old. Maybe I would qualify as a jedi? LHC: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110228/full/471013a.html Nice comment about the above …