Archive for 2007

Internet monopoly in Norway is in the horizon: The largest web daily in Norway, VG.no published an article that literally stunned me. Telenor , The largest ISP in Norway, are pulling themselves...

I have finally got a photo section on my site. Been pondering about it ever since I've bought this domain, and that was in 2001.. Yep, I am slow :P For a while now , when I had the time and spirit...

I was trying to find a new way to display site hits/site statistics from our sites (Aller), in a new way. I needed something that could be updated on the fly and circulated throughout the...

I failed to see that my own spam system for the comments actually fubared every attempt to add any comment. No wonder I have no comments at all. Well, the matter is fixed, and I hope to God that...

Well, I took a sneak at the daily comic strip of M, authored and drawn by Mads Eriksen, and I didn't quite get it, so I googled and came across a YouTub clip containing the explanation in form of...

My latest project at work is now finished and scheduled for release today. I am pretty pleased with the outcome of this. The page is a teaser for the new magazine WHERE2GO released in Oslo...

I was twisting my head trying to figure the best way to fetch data from the squid log server for a new internal statistic project at work, when I decided to make a parser myself rather than trying...

I finally found a way to get my sites containing flash, xhtml 1.0 validated! I have tried several different quirks and tricks to make the flash validated, with no real success - the Flash Satay...

I found an article that caught my interest when I browsed Slashdot.org. It caught my interested because I work as a web developer in a big Internet editing office. Our net journalists continuously...

I read an article posted by Kyle Neath on Warpspire about his metamorphosis from beeing a standard nazi to be more open minded for Flash applications. He mentions some pointers towards HTML, CSS...

Yeah, the last wall has fallen and I am registered at facebook.com. No, I have not spent all my time there, and I am aware of that it's been a while since I have posted here, but things have been...

09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 Join the revolution! Don't think that CENSORSHIP can stop the Internet community. The Internet was made to share information, not CENSOR it. Paste...

Ever wondered how the Arena points in World of Warcraft is calculated? here is a quick formula that will give you an idea on how high rating you will need for that epix! X = Team Rating, Y = Arena...

I've been counting the days now, to the day when I am throwing out Windows XP Professional on my stationary computer and installing a Linux distro. The day has come, right now, this very instant I...

Okay, after 8 hours of downloading the Ubuntu Studio via torrents, and another hour uploading it to a share server for easier access, I found out that I did not have any fresh DVD's left to write...

There are just 2 steps needed to install any Ubuntu version really. Insert CD/DVD and point/click. But the fun thing about it was that after I got hold of a DVD to write the ISO on, the DVD was...

The Fedora project has released their latest distro yesterday, Fedora 7 (Moonshine). Some new features comes bundlet with it, and I would like to mention some features that are worth taking a...

Very short post here, but I got hold of a very useful tutorial that helped me pretty much when I tried to install Pidgin. The Romanian blogger Marilen Corciovei writes a little howto on it: len.ro...

The conflict in Sudan has driven to million people into fugitivity. At least 200.000 people are killed in the conflict, but the government in Sudan reject the genocide accusations. Amnesty...

I was so looking forward to try the Safari beta on Windows when Safari beta was released. The experience from the browser after some first views was not good, at all. I didn't have the same...

Yeah, it's a pun, and very intended. Lately (as in the last year) I've been trying to get hold of some new books that's closely related to the things I work with and that will give my skills a...

A quick post here, just had to post this. Recently I have rekindled my interest in Magic The Gathering (MTG), the card game. My brother got hold of a version of the MTG PC game that we bought 7 or...

As i mentioned in my article "Internet monopoly in Norway", the largest ISP in Norway, Telenor, withdrew from the Norwegian Internet Exchange (NIX). This has happened since: The Norwegian Post and...

Ever since I got the laptop I use at work, I always wondered what it was like to have a GNU/Linux OS on it. I've experimentet with a Compaq Evo N800 and Fedora releases before, but that didn't...

Update! read my article about the release of Fedora 8, the final version here. Well, thing evolves and get better, or worse. For the Fedora series, it looks like things are getting better and...

The only thing that kept me moving completely away from an OS from Microsoft was the gaming side of me. My name is Alexander, and I am a gamer. I enjoy RPGs, MMORPGs, RTS, FPS and the list goes...

Some great news from desktoplinux.com! They recently revealed the desktop survey results. The facts are there, the number of desktop linux users has doubled the last year! And what is the desktop...

As some of you might have noticed, the hottest debate nowadays is the debate on Microsofts new document format, the OOXML (Office Open XML) and Microsofts attempt to get the OOXML standard ISO...

A brief post this thursday morning, with great news. The next Ubuntu distro to succeed Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) is called Hardy Heron (8.04). A little excerpt from jonobacon@home: "Not only will the...

I've grown a bit tired of the looks of this page, the look and feel of this page is simplicity, but I am not satisfied. Not yet. I've tried out several quirks here and there and want to try them...

Standard Norge, the Norwegian organization to vote for or against the OOXML standard as a new ISO standard, has voted no to OOXML in its present form. The debate about OOXML has been heated, both...

The ISO organization voted no to OOXML, need I say more? Well, until next year, we will see nothing more of OOXML. Microsoft Corp. has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document...

Stumbled over a great effect for my gnome desktop on Ubuntu Studio, a Dreamscene look-a-like effect. The best thing was that I only needed 2 lines in the console for making this effect! What is...

If you've done any kind of web design, you've always looked for the best way to snap up a color code without doing all the print-screen-copy-paste-color picker-copy code-paste-close image ++ work....

The wait is over folks, the people over at Fedora Project has now released the 8th version of their desktop Linux distro. Get out of your chair and jump on over to fedoraproject.org and read the...

I've had a sneak peek at Linux Foundations 3rd annual desktop Linux survey and while LF analyses the raw data, you can read some results here! Some numbers: over 20,000 have answered the surveys...