Tag Archives: Software

Wrapper Release

Gee. I didn’t get around to post this but the stable wrapper v. 0.0.1.0 has been released onto Wuala. Changes include the latest adjustments to the API (doesn’t include the changes to the thumbnail method, as this came later) and … Continue reading

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Adobe AIR Beta for Linux

Wowzers, finally there’s a version of AIR available that has an (almost) equal set of features to it’s Windows and Mac counterparts. Before you can install this new version you do have to uninstall your old AIR applications (as they … Continue reading

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Using vi as hex editor

There are many things vi can do, for instance invoke other commands to process files. That’s pretty cool. Since installing Okteta isn’t always an option, here’s a small snippet on how to work simple capabilities into vi: vi -b myfile … Continue reading

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Making the NX Client portable

NX is great. I’m deeply in love with it. Sometimes it’s acting like a real jerk, though. The NX Web Companion is installing a lot of crap into the active user’s profile. The NX client writes stuff in the active … Continue reading

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New nVidia Linux driver speeds things up

The end of the world must be near: nVidia released a new version of their GNU/Linux driver that fixes some of the annoyances regarding RENDER performance. Given you apply some manual adjustments to the configuration the new driver performs in … Continue reading

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Fixing the “null” date problem in WordPress

If you’ve been a constant reader of my blog (and of course I know you are 😉 ) you could hardly have missed the ugly “0” date in the archives. Turns out that this 0 date was caused by all … Continue reading

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Building recent Mplayer SVN + CoreAVC For Linux

As Michael points out there’s a slight problem with the CoreAVC For Linux patchset that enable Mplayer to take advantage of CoreCodec’s h.264 decoder — with recent changes in the sourcecode the old build_patch.pl script doesn’t produce usable output anymore. … Continue reading

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Wuala goes beta, Badges to celebrate

Along with the public beta of Wuala there’s also a new website. Aside from the plethora of new information, a feature to install/launch Wuala straight from the browser and mucho polished bling, Caleido offers a few badges to advertise Wuala … Continue reading

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Using twhirl on Linux – the nice way

Without any doubt twhirl is the greatest twitter client available. It’s an Air-based application – meaning you can even use it on Linux. Now, as you may know KDE 4.1 comes with a handy little twitter client plasmoid itself but … Continue reading

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HDParm Service: Automatically disable spindown on Vista

Update 08-28-2008: This post has moved to it’s own subpage. There you’ll find an updated version that should fix the wake issue.

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Wine 1.0 RC

Woot woot. Good things do happen 🙂 Now it’s time to do some regression tests. Without implying bad things here, but people should be very strict with applications before giving out platinum status. Things like “does work perfectly fine as … Continue reading

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Adobe Air for Linux

A test version of Adobe’s Air for Linux is available for public consumption now. Tweet-r as well as the Pownce client work fine, there are some visual problems with alpha channels, though. It is great to see that Adobe does … Continue reading

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Fruitless?

Composing music can be a very fruitless and hard thing to do. Especially so when all your music talent lies in being able to play the pianica a bit, but that’s about it then. Thankfully there are several programs out … Continue reading

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Quick hint: Use SharpDevelop more often

There are quite a number of things that were stripped from Microsoft’s proud Visual Studio Express series. One of them being the resource editor in C++, another one being a buttload of templates for your project type. Like… let’s say… … Continue reading

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Wine to go 1.0 soon

Now that is news, my fellow subjects! Wine, the not-so-much-an-emulator program that bridges the gap between Linux and Windows, is about to hit One-point-O in a not so distant future. It took 15 years to get to this point and … Continue reading

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