Archive for February, 2008

Highway to Dell, part four

Friday, February 29th, 2008

(Continued from Highway to Dell, part three.) Before buying the Dell Inspiron1525 I did some research and I found a thread about PPP problems with Ubuntu on the machine. I sent a PM to the author of the post and asked of his/her experiences. I got this reply ...

“Novarra”, or “Surf Closed” or “How to put ads on all websites”

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Swedish telecom operator TeliaSonera has introduced a mobile data service where you agree to view ads on every web site visited. This service is provided by a company called Novarra. The ads are part of the deal, so the customer get what they pay (or rather don't pay) for. It ...

I’m quite happy with this photo

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Click to enlarge: Nice, huh?

an unknown filter was not added: DEFLATE

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I looked in Apache's error_log file and noticed multiple lines like this: an unknown filter was not added: DEFLATE After thinking a bit I recalled that I added the following line in the .htaccess file in the root directory for on one of my domains, but never tested it properly: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html ...

Øresund Agile 2008 teaser

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Click to enlarge: The Øresund Agile 2008 conference runs 9-11 juni in Malmö, Sweden. Full conference program will be available on March 15.

Highway to Dell, part three

Monday, February 25th, 2008

(Continued from Highway to Dell, part two.) The trackpad is much easier to work with since I followed these instructions. I also set MaxTapTime to "0" (zero) to disable tapping on the trackpad, and SHMConfig to "on" so that I can use synclient, gsynaptics or similar programs to play ...

Highway to Dell, part two

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

(Continued from Highway to Dell, part one.) Yesterday I swapped hard disk drive in the Dell Inspiron 1525 (without even booting Windows Vista), inserted the DVD with ubuntu-dell-1525n-intelvideo-reinstall.iso downloaded from http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/iso-images/ and installed Ubuntu. Everything I've tried worked out of the box except the wireless network. The Dell ...

Microsoft Interoperability

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

I browsed the list of protocols provided as part of Microsoft Interoperability but I couldn't spot anything of use for SynCE. Anyway, I hope that this is a good move in general and not a new oxymoron.

Intrepid Ibex

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

According to Mark Shuttleworth's announcement yesterday the name of the autumn release of Ubuntu will be Intrepid Ibex.

Highway to Dell, part one

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

(Kind of continued from About to buy a new laptop.) I ordered a Dell Inspiron 1525 on Februrary 12 and the delivery was estimated to Match 17. A few minutes to 7 AM this morning the delivery company called and said they were to deliver before lunch today! Unfortunately ...