Archive for May, 2009
Friday, May 29th, 2009
When I configured Pidgin 2.5.5 to use talk.google.com as Jabber server, the proxy said:
HTTP/1.1 403 This URL is explicitly denied from being proxied
Fortunately it was a very stupid proxy, so resolving talk.google.com to an IP address worked fine! Here is the advanced settings screen for the working connection:
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
I have updated a couple of my Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) installations to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) but not yet my primary laptop. I was about to do that tonight (isn't starting something at 22:00 a grea idea?) but the upgrade procedure showed me the message below, making me postpone the upgrade ...
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
As project administrator for a couple of SourceForge projects I recently received an e-mail about the upcoming deprecation of multiple applications that are part of the SourceForge platform:
The following applications are due to be deprecated, replaced by
high-quality Open Source applications we have in our Hosted Apps offering:
TaskManager will be replaced ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Last summer I outlined the components needed to build a kitchen computer but I never created one. (If you know Swedish you can read my blog post Köksdator?) One of my requirements was a touch screen interface.
Right now an LG L1510SF touch screen monitor is in the mail, heading my ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
When you hear me speaking about C++, you probably notice the passion. I might expose a similar passion when I pinpoint some of Java's weaknesses. Maybe I do sound like "Dick" in the article Java is Slow! at The Daily WTF?
From GW-BASIC on my first computer I went through QBasic, ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
My FreeBSD server is now equipped with a TellStick for control of 433.92 Mhz wireless remote switches. Our home is not (yet :-) fully controlled by remote switches but we have a few of them now. One of the features I wanted was to control some lights but for ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
I ran imapsync on my mail server like this to move a couple of accounts away from my server:
imapsync --syncinternaldates --host1 localhost --user1 user --password1 secret --host2 imap.gmail.com --port2 993 --ssl2 --user2 user@gmail.com --password2 secret --authmech1 LOGIN --authmech2 LOGIN --split2 100
(Wordpress is a bit too clever, so -- above means ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
When people and companies realize what a dead end Java has gotten into, I want to be prepared for the alternatives. Java will become the dinosaur language like COBOL, but it will not be replaced by a single programming language but with a mix of languages. Several of these languages ...
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