Archive for 2008/04

As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, I'm attending Go Open 2008, a conference about Open Source arranged by the National Competence Center for Open Source. I've already made my mind about...

There was a massive protest when Standard Norge decided that Norway will say yes to OOXML, despite the fact that most of the comitee-representatives were against. The ISO-vote is currently...

New GParted distro out! GParted LiveCD is a business card-size live CD distribution with a single purpose - to provide tools for partitioning hard disks in an intuitive, graphical environment. The...

Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based live CD containing Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning software similar to Norton Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. With...

What is April Fool's? Or All Fools' Day? I read the article on Wikipedia about this and learned some new things. A little excerpt from the article: The origins of this custom are complex and a...

Bigfoot's review from Master Brewers (Trollbane EU) fight vs Maggy:After some success taking our first look at Maggy on Sunday night the Monday run that had been scheduled to Tempest Keep had been...

Great news from Gentoo Linux! They've released their latest beta, 2008.0 beta 1.Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast, completely free Linux distribution geared towards developers and network...

DSL 4.3 RC 1, get it now! Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) live CD GNU/Linux distribution. Despite its very minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop....

GoboLinux just released GoboLinux 014.01 Beta 1! GoboLinux is a Linux distribution that breaks away from the historical UNIX directory hierarchy. Basically, this means that there are no...

Another development release from Brazil! GoblinX 2.7 Beta 1 "Mini". GoblinX is a bootable live CD distribution based on Slackware Linux. The primary goal for GoblinX is to create a more pleasant...

Get your statistics on with Clicky! Do you have a personal or proffesional website and wondered how many visitors you have? Do you think about what your readers search for to be directed to your...

How can you speed up your site on an Apache PHP server? Piece of cake if you ask me. How simple is it? With some copy and paste jobs from my article you can speed up your site significally. Follow...

New distro from the Czech Republic is out, Slax 6.0.3! Slax is a Slackware-based bootable CD containing a Linux operating system, designed with a modular approach. Despite its small size, Slax...

We are getting closer to summer, and I found this image amongst a Windows Vista Wallpaper pack (ssh!). It calms me down when I am working, and I can almost hear the waves touching the beach if I...

Anders Brenna got to interview the ODF project editor, Patrick Durusau:Patrick Durusau is the project editor for ODF 1.2. Considering the escalated conflict between OOXML-backers and opposers, one...

A little rhyme with reason, I've just registered on twitter! You can add me with the nick phun_ky, ( I really don't know why I can't use DASH here instead of UNDERSCORE ), and I created my own...

Just a little post here, I thought I'd share with you what my favourite web comics are: Dark Legacy Comic by Arad Kedar. Looking For Group by Blind Ferret Entertainment. The Noob Comic by Gianna...

There's been a lot of fuzz lately in Norway about the whole OOXML vote process. Standard Norge has, despite the opposition's majority vote against OOXML, voted yes to OOXML. In response to this,...

Go Open is the largest nordic knowledge and network arena for the open source community, with over 500 people participating and 50 keynotes, nationally and internationally. In this article I'm...

Public letter from Benjamin Henrion: Dear signatory of the NO OOXML petition, Steve Pepper, the former Chairman of the Norwegian committee responsible for deciding the Norwegian vote on...

Day 2 of Go Open 2008 was as exiting as day 1, with great keynote speakers. In this article you will find small reviews of the keynotes I attended, every keynote was videotaped, so I will try to...

Mandriva Linux (formerly Mandrakelinux) was created in 1998 with the goal of making Linux easier to use for everyone. At that time, Linux was already well-known as a powerful and stable operating...

This book is written by Steve Souders. Steve Souders created YSlow, the Firefox add-on that analyzes web page performance according to the 14 rules described in this book. It works with Firebug....

I stumbled upon a very interesting new linux distro when I checked DistroWatch this morning, a new distro called gOS (Good OS), with integration of Google products and MySpace apps. gOS is an...

I came across a very nice blacksmithing guide, written by ShadowPanther. It's painfully accurate and will help you in your quest to get the Drakefist Hammer. The original guide is updated to...

A new distro that could soothe the pain every helpdesk has ever had when it comes to loss of data! Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a Slackware-based CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup/maintenance...

The latest Draco Linux distro is out! Fresh from Norway. Draco GNU/Linux is a distribution based on Slackware Linux and "pkgsrc", a package management system developed by NetBSD. A new version,...

Ok, I know that I'm not continously searching the Internet for IT news, but this is something I really should've noticed. I noticed today on the Ubuntu Brainstorm site, under "Implemented ideas",...

A big congrats to Digi.no! No new functionality,just a spanking new design! Took us a month, but we're pretty satisfied with it. Digi.no is Norways largest IT-news site, with over 100 000 unique...

Kernel 2.6.25 stable went live today! Read the changelog here, and download the kernel patch here

The dorment SymphonyOne project has just(?) woken up from the hibernation and released the 2008.1 distro.SymphonyOne is a whole new type of Operating System, based on an advanced GNU/Linux base...

Steve Langasek announced the release candidate of Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron": "The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) on desktop and...

Cyronix's review from Master Brewers' (Trollbane EU) fight vs Jan'alai (Dragonhawk avatar): (Read the review from our first Magtheridon kill aswell.) After having difficulty getting a group...

Get it while it's hot (norwegian mirror)! Stay tuned for more mirrors. Mirror at phun-ky.net Feature list NOTE! Remember the known bugs

Update: Photos out!There, back from the cruise to Amsterdam! Will get pictures out shortly, when and if I've got the time that is. In the mean time, I hope you've tried out ubuntu 8.04, if not,...