Archive for February, 2008
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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
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Nice, huh?
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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 ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
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The Øresund Agile 2008 conference runs 9-11 juni in Malmö, Sweden. Full conference program will be available on March 15.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
According to Mark Shuttleworth's announcement yesterday the name of the autumn release of Ubuntu will be Intrepid Ibex.
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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 ...
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