Archive for 2008/09

The first release candidate for Mandriva Linux 2009 is out, ready for testing: "Mandriva Linux 2009 Release Candidate 1 is available on public mirrors now. The main new features of RC1 (compared...

This is a simple how to that I picked from the web, I take no credit from this guide, give the credit to the guys from LinuxInsight.com that wrote it! Step 1: Download FreeDOS boot disk floppy...

A quick little how to on how to get your d50 modem to work on Ubuntu. I used the d50 on my laptop my entire summer vacation and it worked perfectly! The basic setup Install wvdial if you don't...

Some simply ways to remove empty lines in a file: # Use this sub: :%s/^\n// # Or this: :g/^$/d # Or this: :g/^\s*$/d

A few topics that I will try to write something about this year. I really doubt it, but it will give you an idea on what kind of material you will expect to see here from now ;) The...

This is the raid report from the guild leader in Epiphany, Handsome. With one week since the last trip and Rage Winterchill fresh in mind, we went back to Mount Hyjal. A progressrun scheduled...

This is the raid report from the guild leader in Epiphany, Handsome. With a progress run scheduled for the night, the officers had a meeting before the raid and figured we would give the raid a...

Ok, they released it over two weeks ago, but we've very happy with the outcome! Henne.no now uses the same grid as her sister site, kk.no. A congrats to the Henne.no staff is in order! This...

Got this in my email today from a colleague. Nasty. It's finally friday!

Gravatar, what is it? Gravatar stands for Globally Recognized Avatars. A gravatar is an avatar that's linked with your email adress. This avatar can be used on all sites that support Gravatar....

This is the raid report from the guild leader in Epiphany, Handsome. Yesterday, a solid group of Epiphanies headed for Black Temple. we've had one night of tries there before, but this time it...

This is the raid report from the guild leader in Epiphany, Handsome. Continuing sunday's nice raid with killing Naj'entus and nearly downing Supremus, our fines ventured into the temple again...

From DistroWatch.com: GParted LiveCD has been updated to version 0.3.4-6: “ GParted LiveCD 0.3.4-6 has been released. Changes: we now use Squashfs LZMA witch allows best...

Was stuck in a rut here with a JavaScript problem, but I did some active research that I became very happy with: function InsertTextAtCursor(input, valueString){ //IE support if...

More good news on the DistroWatch.com feed! David Liu has announced the release of gOS 3.0 "Gadgets" edition, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring a large number of pre-installed Google...

GNOME 2.24 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first class...

A big congratulations to Elon Musk and his company SpaceX for the first privately sponsored rocket to reach orbit! This is another milestone after the human endavour of the space race that...

Steve Langasek has now reported that they have now frozen their beta version of Ubuntu 8.10, and is ready to relase it next week. If you're curious on what bugs they're focusing on, you can...

Came over this nifty CSS code to reset all html elements to "default" style. It might help you (or it might not) when you want to start from scratch, i.e. in a CSS file for print. To quote Eric...

A very cool video made by Ruan Cashman that features a piano player animated with a green laser and long exposure time, pretty sweet. This is how Ryan Cashman made this masterpiece: Animated...