Cool HOW-TO:s

Old news for many I suppose, but I just ran across www.howtoforge.com, which among other things had a nice article on Chroot:ing SSH. Wouldn’t it be nice if one could collect “all” how-to:s in one place?! 😉 Later: Colin Turner pointed out that there’s The …

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No more EEE

Yaay; I finally did it! I went ahead and deleted one of my IM-accounts.. whooohoo! 🙂 Oh, sorry – just had to get that off my chest. No more MSN/Hotmail for me. So let’s see.. now it’s down to Skype, Yahoo, and ICQ. I only …

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Looking for that re-usable Wiki engine code

So I got an idea for a really silly and really simple service; based on the contents of wikipedia.org. I decided to try to re-use someone else’s wiki parsing code (PHP). After an hour and a half, I still haven’t been able to find something …

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Gnome needs “menumental” changes

I’ve been playing and working with computers for almost 30 years now (damn, I’m old), and after having installed the Gnome desktop environment 20-25 times, I still have not come to understand the thinking behind the so called “menu system”. The “drawer” in Gnome is …

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Abandoning the West Wing

So finally, SVT Channel 1 starts sending season six of West Wing, one of my favorite TV series. It was sad to hear the passing of John Spencer in late 2005. It was also sad to hear that West Wing has been cancelled by NBC …

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Fifty eight weeks have come and gone

Well, it’s now an official (?) 58 weeks, or a year and six weeks, since I was a “using nicotinist”, I guess in the tradition of AA, I’m now a non-using or sober nicotinist 🙂 Seven weeks Fifteen weeks. Thirtysix weeks GOOD ON ME!

Bird flu handled by being “cost effective”

Research from BirdLife International now shows that much of the “bird flu” is being passed on by humans bringing contraband across borders; very little of the current spread of the flu follow natural travel paths used by birds. Instead, there’s a “thin red line” along …

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JoomlaFCK – FCKeditor for Joomla

The JoomlaFCK-project, which integrates the powerful WYSIWYG-editor into Joomla, has released version 1.1.2 on 2006-01-17; this brings the JoomlaFCK module (mambot) up to a more recent FCKeditor version. You can download JoomlaFCK on here (hosted on developer.joomla.org). Edit: This project is now apparently called “JoomlaCK …

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Anna’s Joomla Tips

If you’re using Joomla, the PHP-based open source CMS, you may want to have a look at “Anna’s Joomla Tips”; a collection of some fairly simple but very useful tips and tricks. You’ll find Anna’s tips on the Joomla forum: forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,5503.0.html If you haven’t had …

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