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Consolas vs. Terminus – my personal monospaced font war
(I hate Courier New) For some time, I’ve used Dimitar Zhekov’s clean, fixed-width font Terminus for terminal-heavy situations in both GNU/Linux and Windows. I’m clueless in the area of typography, but...
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Russia to require registration of all Wi-Fi equipment
In other news, somewhat related to my previous post: Russia may in the future require registration of “every Wi-Fi device and hotspot”. What a goddamn Kafka-Orwellian nightmare that country must be....
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Disable Nautilus pop-up on media insert in Ubuntu 8.04
Although the new Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS release is nice and polished, there are a few glitches in how the bundled GNOME environment allows the user to customize some behavior. Settings for how the...
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GNOME lunacy: missing option for disabling cursor blinks in Ubuntu 8.04′s...
The GNOME desktop environment project is plagued by a design philosophy that apparently aims to make user interfaces suitable for lobotomy victims at the cost of removing features and options from the...
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Amarok in Ubuntu 8.04 won’t scrobble
EDIT: This post gets some traffic from Google users who probably are more interested in a later post on fixing a problem causing Ubuntu 8.04′s Amarok not to play any sound. After upgrading to Ubuntu...
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Microsoft blocks Windows Live Messenger messages with links to Youtube
Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger instant messaging network (formerly MSN Messenger) is currently blocking messages with urls that contain *.youtube.com. Tietokone, a Finnish IT publication reports...
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Amarok’s sound output broken by default in Ubuntu 8.04
After installing Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron), I didn’t get any sound when I tried to play sound files in Amarok (the distribution’s own package of version 1.4.9.1), a music oriented audio...
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Finnish appeal court decision: breaking CSS illegal
Due to recent very unclear, confusing and freedom hating legislation prepared by corrupt and incompetent people and an appeal court decision from a couple of days back, it’s now criminal to break the...
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Openness and microblogging
This entry was originally posted as a comment on Xuenay’s blog. Also: doesn’t LiveJournal support real hyperlinks in comments? Ultra-suckage. I’ve always found Twitter to be a very interesting concept,...
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Batch convert Irssi logs or other text files to UTF-8 using recode
When I recently rented a VPS running a fresh install of Debian, I thought it was about time to stick with the now default Unicode locale, UTF-8. Doing this switch in a sensible fashion would include...
View ArticleConsolas vs. Terminus – my personal monospaced font war
(I hate Courier New) For some time, I’ve used Dimitar Zhekov’s clean, fixed-width font Terminus for terminal-heavy situations in both GNU/Linux and Windows. I’m clueless in the area of typography, but...
View ArticleRussia to require registration of all Wi-Fi equipment
In other news, somewhat related to my previous post: Russia may in the future require registration of “every Wi-Fi device and hotspot”. What a goddamn Kafka-Orwellian nightmare that country must be....
View ArticleDisable Nautilus pop-up on media insert in Ubuntu 8.04
Although the new Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS release is nice and polished, there are a few glitches in how the bundled GNOME environment allows the user to customize some behavior. Settings for how the...
View ArticleGNOME lunacy: missing option for disabling cursor blinks in Ubuntu 8.04’s...
The GNOME desktop environment project is plagued by a design philosophy that apparently aims to make user interfaces suitable for lobotomy victims at the cost of removing features and options from the...
View ArticleAmarok in Ubuntu 8.04 won’t scrobble
EDIT: This post gets some traffic from Google users who probably are more interested in a later post on fixing a problem causing Ubuntu 8.04’s Amarok not to play any sound. After upgrading to Ubuntu...
View ArticleMicrosoft blocks Windows Live Messenger messages with links to Youtube
Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger instant messaging network (formerly MSN Messenger) is currently blocking messages with urls that contain *.youtube.com. Tietokone, a Finnish IT publication reports...
View ArticleAmarok’s sound output broken by default in Ubuntu 8.04
After installing Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron), I didn’t get any sound when I tried to play sound files in Amarok (the distribution’s own package of version 1.4.9.1), a music oriented audio...
View ArticleFinnish appeal court decision: breaking CSS illegal
Due to recent very unclear, confusing and freedom hating legislation prepared by corrupt and incompetent people and an appeal court decision from a couple of days back, it’s now criminal to break the...
View ArticleOpenness and microblogging
This entry was originally posted as a comment on Xuenay’s blog. Also: doesn’t LiveJournal support real hyperlinks in comments? Ultra-suckage. I’ve always found Twitter to be a very interesting concept,...
View ArticleBatch convert Irssi logs or other text files to UTF-8 using recode
When I recently rented a VPS running a fresh install of Debian, I thought it was about time to stick with the now default Unicode locale, UTF-8. Doing this switch in a sensible fashion would include...
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