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Since -98 I’ve been using Linux. It started at school where all of our programming was done in Red Hat 5.1 and KDE. Off and on I have returned to Microsoft Windows, I have used alot of different distributions such as Gentoo, Debian, Mandrake, Suse and Slackware to name a few. I in a weak [...]

In the recent race to serve users with all mannered GUI wonder Linux has put both Apple and Microsoft in a choke hold. Utilizing the ”XGL” xserver on top of OpenGL and the ”Compiz” composite manager allows the use of hardware accelerated rendering of the desktop and windows. This is not a new thing, if [...]

I have just uploaded some of the photos we took on the trip to the U.S. This is just a first set, there are alot of images to sort through and post-manipulate. This first set is from Gene’s and Donna’s house, where we stayed for the most part, and some from the boating trip we [...]

Late October last year my girlfriend and I bought tickets to a Monster Magnet appearance in Malmoe at Kulturbolaget. The show was supposed to be last friday(24/3). Guess what?! It was cancelled. We drove 13 metric miles there stressed out of our gords, ate at Burger King, found a parkingspace rushed to the concert only [...]

I had a little downtime a couple of days here. The culprit was a package upgrade on the host that snuck by the administrator, the upgrade overwrote some of the configuration files for the database server. So when the server had to bee rebooted, due to a system hang, the database server didn’t go back [...]

I have been involved with ‘the web’ for some time now, about five years or so. And I dare to call myself at least semi skilled in both design and development. I have used and tested an array of different content management systems and tools that claim to help ease publishing your content. The common [...]

The last few weeks has been terribly hectic, mostly due to the fact that we’ve moved out of the apartment and into a house. We are now proud renters of roughly 250 square meters of prime walls and ceiling accompanied by the obligatory grass lawn. The apartment weighed in at 62 square meters so the [...]

‘Been focusing alot on R-n’-R the last week or so. Last Sunday me and a friend of mine went and saw STCC wich was for the most part really sweet. I enjoy motorsports probably a tad more then the next guy but the mind staggering amount of rainfall that day was enough to put a [...]

It has been some time since my last post, I have been a little pressed on time and really havn’t had anything worth writing about. I’m on holiday now and have spent most of my time on three projects; the Intranet I have made for my employer, a handbook in swedish on how to use [...]

I am not a fan of Microsofts Internet Explorer browser, I find it twitchy, buggy, insecure and feature-less. Thusly I rearely use it, but many others unfortunately do and so one has to cope with the situations that arise when such a user enters your site. This is not news, this applies to all sites [...]

I got ”The Adobe Photoshop CS book for Digital Photographers” (ISBN 91-636-0823-5) for my birthday and I must say that it really is the cats pyjamas. It is different from every other book on Photoshop(or other digital image handling software) I’ve read/skimmed through. It differs in that it doesn’t explain all the nifty function and [...]

I, as many others, use email extensively for communication. I rarely use the phone anymore and have substituted it with things as email and irc. I also enjoy being a member of several mailing lists that provide me with the latest news, support and general tips in areas that I find interesting. The preferred way [...]

Finally finished the re-design that has been in the making since I switched to WordPress. I got a surprise workload right after I uploaded the new CMS and didn’t get to finish this until now. I’ve stripped out most of the tags and made a design that is more of a blog type. I wanted [...]

This last month I’ve been up to the neck writing various CMS related things. First and foremost I’ve been focusing on my companys intranet basically rewriting it from the ground up. The last time I wrote it I had to put it together in a relatively short time frame, so it didn’t turn out that [...]

On April the 15th Drupal released it’s new version, 4.6.0. After six months of development the 4.6.0 now sports such features as: PHP5 support Improved search Improved usability in some areas Added ‘Contact’ module with e-mail support Other stuff… (Changelog) If you havn’t already, check it out at www.drupal.org

I have to admit, and that isn’t easy, that sometimes even Linux behave strangely and stop working. I have botched my X-server configuration more than once in my days and that left me with nothing more than a commandline prompt to get it back up. Now I know some of you are saying ”Hey, whaddaya [...]

So I finally got around to put the new theme up. I’ve deliberately toned down the ‘bling’ for some simple reasons. One is that I’m not good enough at making spiffy graphics, so no attempts have been made. Another one is that I want a flexible and easy-to-navigate layout and I thought that it might [...]

Digital Web Magazine has an article on how to debug you PHP code when you hit a bump in the road. It doesn’t go into specific tools but rather shows a set of simple techniques you can pull out when your’e stumped. The methods are not complicated and are probably well know to you if [...]