Electricmonk

Ferry Boender

Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.

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Category: libre software

XML commandline toolset

Those who are familiar with Unix commandline tools like grep, sed and cut will know about the enormous power they provide. They make it a breeze to mangle, transform and retrieve information in and from text files. Unfortunately, they’re mostly dependant on row and column based information. That is, they expect each line in a […]

Debian Laptop on different networks

I use my Debian GNU/Linux laptop both at home and at work. Sometimes I may take it over to a friend’s network so I can show him some stuff. Unfortunatelly, being on a bunch of different networks does pose some problems. When I’m at home for instance, I’d like my firewall to block incoming FTP […]

Why Freshmeat.net is obsolete

Back in the good old days, Freshmeat.net was the source for getting your daily dosis of new Free Software/Open Source Linux programs. A single visit a day would keep you up-to-date on the lastest important software releases in the Open Source community. Freshmeat’s target audience has always been hard to describe. In the beginning it […]

Taking Firefox 1.1 (Deer Park) for a test-drive.

NOTICE: Please substitute all occurences of the text ‘1.1’ in this article with ‘1.5’. The reason? They’re skipping v1.1 and going straight to v1.5. Too bad I didn’t find out about this Roadmap earlier. About Deer Park Deer Park, the development codename for the upcoming Firefox v1.1 release, hit the Alpha 2 stage last Sunday. […]

SecureSHell File system

Okay, I’m on a linking rampage here. Sorry. (I hate link-logs). But this is pretty cool, and I’ve been looking for it for a long time. Mounting a remote filesystem over SSH: shfs. Shfs is a simple and easy to use Linux kernel module which allows you to mount remote filesystems using a plain shell […]

Open Source Web Design

Aaaaand, yet another interesting project: Open Source Web Design. For those unfortunate souls that have to make it through life without any artistic skills whatsoever. Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier […]

Debian System Administration Tips and Resources

Cool site: Debian-Administration.org This is a simple weblog which is designed to contain interesting and useful information related to the System Administration of Debian GNU/Linux systems. Whilst there are several sites where users can post questions and have answers contributed by other users there are no other sites on the web which are specifically targetted […]

Firefox scandal! Read all about it!

This article on News.com is pretty funny. Is it just me, or does this article make it sound like some major scandal was uncovered? It’s friggin’ foxgate! :-) The open-source Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client will be updated for the second time in a week because of code changes that have unintentionally stopped some […]

Debian Unstable X.org causing conflicts (Update)

Hm. Yesterday I wrote about X.org entering Debian Unstable. Turns out though that it’s still causing a lot of conflicts. So far most notably with Xine and various display libraries. Better wait a while before upgrading to X.org. More information about this problem on slashdot. Update: The totem-xine problems and probably many other related to […]

Debian Unstable X.org causing conflicts

Hm. Yesterday I wrote about X.org entering Debian Unstable. Turns out though that it’s still causing a lot of conflicts. So far most notably with Xine and various display libraries. Better wait a while before upgrading to X.org.

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