Photoshop not up to scratch

I just ran into something I’ve never seen in Adobe’s Photoshop CS before: “The image exceeds the size Save for Web was designed for. You may experience out of memory errors and slow performance. Are you sure you want to continue.” The image file is …

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SuSE Linux 9.3

So the delivery guy dropped off the SuSE 9.3 shipment an hour ago, and now the first machine has been upgraded from SuSE 9.2 to SuSE 9.3. How smooth did the upgrade go? Well, apart from 30 or so packages that needed manual attention, everything …

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Way to go Jamie!

I just finished watching the final (?) episode of the Jamie Oliver “School Dinners” program series (the show is about providing better food for school children). Apart from things like being able to concentrate better throughout the whole school day, and being in a nicer …

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Innocence at its best

Here ends another week, to leave room for a new one. It was, as usual, a busy week at work. I managed to squeeze in the watching of two movies (Hide & Seek and Suspect Zero), both of which were a bit odd. On Saturday, …

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Organ donations

Organ donor.. the word is weird and cold; but I suppose that’s because you look at it from the “alive and healthy” perspective. What if you looked at it from another angle? If you’re declared dead, what use do you have for your organs? Wouldn’t …

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HP D530 and Maxtor = Bad batch?

I’m beginning to wonder if HP has purchased a bad batch of Maxtor harddisks for its D530 series of computers. In three months, I have come across three HP D530 SFF machines with a Maxtor harddisk going belly up. All three machines were at three …

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Freya is now officially Freya

I went to a very different and very nice naming cermony for Freya today. It was set at Café Pladder near Gröndal in Stockholm. It was a small gathering of family and friends of Jon and Josefin, and of course Freya. If you’re in the …

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Antique that kicks ass

It’s a boring piece of equipment; this model is really antique too, with just a plain old cable that connects it to the computer. No bluetooth, no wimax, no 3G, no USB or firewire connection.. it’s just a plain old keyboard. But it truly rocks! …

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