Gnome needs “menumental” changes

I’ve been playing and working with computers for almost 30 years now (damn, I’m old), and after having installed the Gnome desktop environment 20-25 times, I still have not come to understand the thinking behind the so called “menu system”. The “drawer” in Gnome is …

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JoomlaFCK – FCKeditor for Joomla

The JoomlaFCK-project, which integrates the powerful WYSIWYG-editor into Joomla, has released version 1.1.2 on 2006-01-17; this brings the JoomlaFCK module (mambot) up to a more recent FCKeditor version. You can download JoomlaFCK on here (hosted on developer.joomla.org). Edit: This project is now apparently called “JoomlaCK …

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Anna’s Joomla Tips

If you’re using Joomla, the PHP-based open source CMS, you may want to have a look at “Anna’s Joomla Tips”; a collection of some fairly simple but very useful tips and tricks. You’ll find Anna’s tips on the Joomla forum: forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,5503.0.html If you haven’t had …

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Another Linux “repository”

One of the problems with rapidly or frequently changing Linux applications, specially those of a more complex nature, is that it’s sometimes hard to come by simple binary installations (such as RPM-style packages). There are a few sites that help in this situation by providing …

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SuSE Linux 10.0

With too much to do, the (for me) long awaited upgrade to SuSE 10.0 on my primary workstation at the office have had to wait until this week. I’ve now finally managed to get my fingers out and upgrade from 9.3 to 10.0. The actual …

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Age of Empires III

It must be me; surely, so many people just can’t be wrong. So I gave AOE3 a go; and granted, at maximum detail and resolution, it’s a fabulous example of gorgeous interactive computer generated art. If you have the hardware for it, that is. What …

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Daemon Tools and Windows XP SP2

So the wonderful Daemon Tools have started acting up on my computer, and I really can’t figure out why. Having a quick peek @ Google doesn’t seem to do much good. Daemon Tools is a really nice little tool that allows you to mount a …

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HP needs to look out the window

Have you ever tried registering a “Care Pack” on one of HP:s many websites for support? Have you ever tried using something other than MSIE while doing so? Pages that don’t load completely and pages where the javascript doesn’t do anything when you try to …

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Skype sucks big hairy Penguins

Skype rocks! It really does. And regardless of it not being “open source” and a “community solution” and what not, it works – most of the time. At the same time, Skype sucks big hairy penguins; under Linux that is. The Linux version of Skype …

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