Ferry Boender
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No other OS than Windows
Tee hee, check out this page: Find Out Which Operating System Your Computer Is Using at Microsoft.com. Here, let me quote a bit for you: Find Out Which Operating System Your Computer Is Using There are many versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. You may be using Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, or […]
Free monitor/keyboard/mouse switch
No money for a hardware monitor/keyboard/mouse switch? Check out X2X. From the description on Freshmeat: “x2x allows the keyboard and mouse on one (“from”) X display to control another (“to”) X display.“. Now I can simply run “x2x -north -to eek:0” and whenever I move the mouse off the top of the screen on my […]
Macintosh anecdotes
On Folklore.org, you can read all about the people at Apple and the development of the Macintosh. Very entertaining, in-depth and educational stuff. (Sorry flux)
GTK 2.6 released
They just released GTK 2.6. It’s got a lot of new features that I’ve been wanting: GtkCellRenderers for dropdowns and progressbars (these can be used in a list.. nice for ListPatron) The combo box can now display trees, insensitive rows and separators. Path entry in the file chooser widget (no more need for using ctrl-l […]
Firefox v1.0 released
It’s finally here. Firefox v1.0. Changes for this release include better tabbed based browsing, more languages and lots of bugfixes. Spread the word. Press release Unfortunatelly, the fix for this bug didn’t make the cut for FF1.0 :(
I need Beta testers
Lately I’ve been working on a new project called MetaCoding. MetaCoding is a Meta Newssite which gathers programming-related news from around the internet and offers it in a central location. Meta News for coders. The backend code for the project is done, and is in need of testing. If you are interested in helping me […]
XML i18n
Uche Ogbuji (remember that name. If you ever run into anything having to do with XML you’ll see his name popping up everywhere) writes on his O’Reilly developers weblog: “I think the most pervasive problem in XML adoption is ingorance and even wilful sabotage of the international foundation on which XML is built. In several […]
CVS v.s. Subversion
Just the other day I realised something: CVS Sucks. I mean, you can’t even move a file around in the repository! How dumb is that? It also has all kinds of problems with empty directories and other file problems in general. So I decided to do some research into Subversion. And it just so happens […]
Gnome Application repository
Finally, there’s a gnome application repository: http://www.gnomefiles.org
o:XML; a XML based programming language
This looks pretty inconvenient: Programming with o:XML. It’s an XML based programming language. Pretty useless, if you ask me.
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