Back to the 1980:s using the olympic computer
Regardless of the outcome of today’s finals in the Olympic Ice Hockey competition between Finland and Sweden, this has to be considered one of the most successful Olympic Games seen …
Computers
Changing date format in Thunderbird under Linux
Being located in Sweden, I want all dates in all applications to be displayed according to the Swedish date format, which is YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2006-02-26 for 26-Feb-2006). This is typically …
JoomlaFCK and non-ASCII characters (HTML entities)
I’ve been using the JoomlaFCK-mambot (or is it “jombot”?) for a while now and am mostly pleased with it. At least when comparing it to the alternatives. There are, however, …
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 …
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 …
To NCQ or not to NCQ; manufacturers dropped the disc
So the system drive in my HP XW4100 workstation has started to make those sounds that nobody using computers wants to hear. No big deal, it’s still under warranty. The …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Another Linux “repository”
One of the problems with rapidly or frequently changing Linux applications, specially those of a more complex nature, is that it’s sometimes hard to come by simple binary installations (such …