• Brando arrived

    by  • 29th January 2007

    I have ordered last week a cradle , a crystal case  and ultra clear screen protector from brando. All arrived today, very good quality. Cradle is nice , fits e61 perfect ( pity it requires crystal case to be off  ) , it is heavy, and good looking ( blue led bit too bright...

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    F-Spot

    by  • 29th January 2007

    Finally got around fixing my f-spot library, had to remove old database and re-import all photos, surprise, surprise all tags were re-read from photo files and that saved my night… actually I would drop that task, if they would not re-appear in f-spot. Great stuff, maybe some day I will get around to import...

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    Outlook and clueless messages

    by  • 29th January 2007

    I love when software is giving you a message which tells nothing except to contact administrator … and what administrator gets from the msg ? nothing, just a memo to contact himself …  crap. My solution to :   “Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook window. The set of folders...

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    Oracle XE on Ubuntu

    by  • 28th January 2007

    Is dead simple …. just remember, if you have used _any_ previous Beta or RPM version. use --purge not --remove when delete previous version… this will save you a lot of time, which I spent wondering why on earth it does not install in full/startup what ever …

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    Welcome to 11111010111

    by  • 24th January 2007

    Load of changes to my world after I came back from my Xmax/New Years break. Mainly at work, where I was welcomed with sad news. And since then I was working hard and preparing and preparing… My Internet connection is patchy at home, the only way to get to the Internet is thru my...

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    SVN and Solaris 10

    by  • 15th December 2006

    One word: Nightmare! How on Earth, can I install SVN/Subversion on that bloody operating system , so it will include bindings for either Perl or Ruby ?! fighting with it for last two days… finally got source to at least compile  … but even if I have Ruby ( from CSW ) and Perl...

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    Nokia E61

    by  • 15th December 2006

    Recently I bought a Nokia E61 with contract from T-Mobile. Contract is a specific one, gives you unlimited(except you can’t use it with a laptop or to make VoIP calls ) access to the Internet from your phone. I love this bundle, really nice device ( I don’t even miss touch screen ) and...

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    FileOpen Plugin for Acrobat on Linux

    by  • 13th November 2006

    If you will have to ever use it ( I needed it for IDG.PL magazine called Net World )  the download site has some crappy hosting as it  eats  .gz when redirecting to archive No worries adding .gz ad the end of URL and it works.

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    Fancy Linux desktop aka AIGLX

    by  • 12th November 2006

    When I was performing emerge  -ud world recently on my vaptop, I have noticed that the new xorg server, which was to be installed has a new USE flag, the aiglx … quick ^C and edit on /etc/make.conf has switched that feature on. After updating system, I’ve added compiz to my installed software collection,...

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    SVN auto publishing to Windows servers

    by  • 10th November 2006

    I need to setup a system which uses SVN for storing ‘website’ revisions and automatically updates live/review/development systems whenever there is commit. Adding a little bit of complication each server is updated from different branch. If website serving boxes would be any kind of UNIX, this post would not exist… way too easy. Web...

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