Archive for 2010/03

After some months, weeks, days, hours of work, stress, work, getting married, buying a house and all of life's pleasures, I finally managed to get this blog up and running again! What has...

I needed some code to help visitors on one of our sites at Aller Internett, to be able to spot the content where the search parameters where mentioned. After some searching and tutorial...

Well, if you write long posts every now and then and you want your users to access the information in an easy way instead of splitting up the post in several pages, this is a very nice solution to...

Have you ever thought your links looked boring and that they needed the little extra? Well, fear not, for I have the solution! The CSS Put this in your css file, preferably after your global...

After browsing the blogosphere today I stumbled upon a very nice color scheme web application created by Adobe: Kuler. It reminds me of a bloated, but better version of Colorschemer. Easy to...

DistroWatch.com reports that Mandriva has announced the release of Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1, a commercial Linux distribution with 5-year maintenance support! Press release “ The...

Got a link through facebook regarding one of my favourite things in this world, whisky! The Whisky Magazine wrote in february that the World Whiskies Awards has finished and the winners was...

Had to put this up, it's priceless! (NetCom is the second largest mobile service provider in Norway, Telenor is the largets)

I was looking for a decent search feature to add to my blog, and after some reading around, I found this feature very easy and interesting. I found a how to in the bakery, but as several users...

Had some issues during a standard mysqldump. I've never encountered it before, and I've made similar dumps on identical mysql servers all day. Basically, it auto sets to lock tables somehow. It is...

"Ripe with taste and a nice pallet". Anyway, I drank a bottle of this last night, and I liked it a lot. Looking forward to the after-ski after work next Tuesday, the boss ordered 14 bottles :D

In the last weeks NetCom, the 2nd largest mobile net provider in Norway, have advertised that tomorrow, Monday 22nd of March, they will announce a spectacular new product. They claim that it will...

Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the first beta release of Ubuntu 10.04, code name "Lucid Lynx", a long-term support (LTS) version. Press release The Ubuntu team is pleased to...

Word of advice, bring tissues. These food dishes makes you want to drool..

A colleague, the BOFH, at work came in to work today with the Mother of all Easter Eggs. He's spent the last 3 weekends crafting the egg by hand. Over 2 kilograms of chocolate went into the...

Cross browser testing and development has never been a walk in the park. This is mainly because the browsers out there in the world wide web do not cling to one set of standards. The browsers...

Stumbled upon this PC ad when I browsed PS.no for some components, and I think it's worth mentioning. It is a PC specifically made and targeted to one demographic group, women. It is a well known...

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I was trying to install a LAMP server locally and after some guides and questions I managed to get it up and running smoothly. How hard is it? Well, it is not that hard, thanks to Tasksel (Note:...

I got hungry between lunch and dinner today so I whipped out some ingredients with my wife and we started to make some very tasty and healthy pancakes. You'll need Milk Eggs Rolled oats/oat...

I wanted to move all my static files to a sub domain to comply with good standards and use a Content Delivery Network. I set up a sub domain and moved all the images, style sheets and javascript...

It has been two years since last time, but at last, this year I am attending GoOpen 2010! Main keynotes I will try to get a hold of these keynotes: Cloud Computing opportunities - by...

An unofficial list from DistroWatch.com gives us a picture on the most popular Linux Distros in March: Ubuntu Fedora PCLinuxOS Mint...

After reading the article Contrast is king at A List Apart, I checked out one of the tools that was mentioned: CheckMyColours.com. It's pretty nifty and will help you deal with your sites...

Yes, yet another colour scheme tool. Not as fancy as Kuler, but I've tested it somewhat and I find this a bit better. Don't ask me why, but I just do ;) Color Scheme Designer.

Directly from DistroWatch.com: Red Hat, Inc. has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5, the fifth update of its commercial, enterprise-class Linux distribution: Release...

Are you sure you are secure with your browser choice? Are you still using archaic and bloated browsers as Internet Explorer? Why would anyone use Internet Explorer? Or do you find yourself stuck...