11/17/08
If you haven’t yet noticed, Adobe released a “pre-release quality” version of their penguin.swf version. That would mean, boys and girls, Flash plugin for 64-bit architecture. Installation might need some workout (I downloaded the installer script of the normal flash and removed the architecture check function), but:
[12:32] < Myrtti> this almost makes me cry
[12:32] < [...]
11/11/08
Once upon a time, many many years ago, I used KDE. This was sometime when Fedora was released, or thereabouts. I wasn’t that much into Linux at that time yet, but I hadn’t yet confessed to myself I was and am a geek to the core. Later when I moved perminantly from Windows to Linux, [...]
Tags: bugs, desktop publishing, DTP, KDE, open source, Qt, Scribus, toolkit
11/11/08
Just a really quick note to check that all of you are really aware using sudo with a graphical app is bad.
You did know that, right? RIGHT?
I’m not an expert on this, but others are. So please, do:
gksudo gedit
kdesu kate
gksudo mousepad
if you want to edit with a graphical editor, and use plain sudo only with [...]
11/09/08
Thoughts from the past week, random links and random ideas to follow. If none of these tickle your brain, I’m sorry.
1) Installing applications to my phone was previously something I really hated. I remember how horrible it was trying to get oggplay installed to my phone, typing the url to the darn things browser. But [...]
Tags: Atheros, barcode, brainstorm, BSD, COSS, database, Gentoo, GPS, hardware, Internet Tablet, Intrepid, Kesäkoodi, laptop, LFS, maemo, mbca, mobile, n800, n810, nokia, Nomovok, RAM, social networking, thinglink, ubuntu, web2.0