Sunday, June 28th, 2009
The kitchen computer project will be powered by a black ASUS EeeBox B203! The ancient 800 MHz (VIA Samuel 2 crap CPU) Mini-ITX machine I use for the prototype is very slow, has issues with the USB network adapter (NetGear WG111v3, ID 0846:4260), and freezes occasionally so it will be ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
My current daytime setup is for various reasons a Windows XP installation with Ubuntu Jaunty running inside VirtualBox. I use Microsoft Windows for Outlook, SQL Navigator and some web browsing while using the Linux installation for development. This morning I started Firefox in Windows XP, changed focus to VirtualBox or ...
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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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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
I've been running gld for more than two months now and it is truly efficient. The current statistics say:
# of entries in the database : 16077
# of one hit entries in the database : 15100
Oldest entry in database : 65 days ago
This means that almost 94% of the attempts to ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I had to mess around a lot with the upgrade, and when the upgrade was finished at last, the reboot failed so I had to get physical access to the machine. Strangely enough, when I rebooted it once more it worked fine!
The main issue with the upgrade was problems with ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The network owner where I have my current server is not very good at maintaining proper DNS and reverse-DNS records (!), and I consider it to be really important for mail servers to have those properly configured. In order to workaround this issue I'm now renting a Virtual Private Server ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
(Continued from Highway to Dell, part five.)
Yesterday I noticed a problem with ssh on the Dell Inspiron 1525: I could ssh in any direction between the laptop and other computers on the same wireless network, but not to a computer outside of the wireless network. The issue was already reported ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Yesterday I participated in the Accelerated Agile workshop at Øresund Agile 2008. It was attended by both developers and non-developers. Some parts of the workshop were common for the two groups and others were separate. Me and another developer actually did both TDD and pair programming! BestBrains, the company that ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
(Continued from Highway to Dell, part four.)
My wife upgraded the Dell Inspiron 1525 to Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy Heron") the other day and as far as I know, everything works fine after correcting the No Sound After Distribution Upgrade issue. I still haven't upgraded my Thinkpad T60p from Ubuntu 7.10 and ...
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