Open Discussion Day: The aftermath

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in FreeSoftware, Jabber/XMPP, Life | No Comments »

As some people might have noticed, yesterday was the Open Discussion Day. On that day people are encouraged to not use any legacy IM services (see my (german) reasoning, or google for more details). Of course you should tell your ...

Got laptop?

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in FreeSoftware, GNU/Linux, Hardware | 1 Comment »

Well, since yesterday I do. My very first laptop ever and it works under GNU/Linux. I'm actually very pleased with this. Everything works. Yes you read that correctly I got myself a laptop and everything is functional, under GNU/Linux (Ubuntu ...

Ellipsis gone wrong

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in FreeSoftware, Fun | No Comments »

I just had a strange effect with gnome-panels ellipsis: For the not-german-speaking audience: "Constanze Kurz, starb" translates to "Constanze Kurz, died" The full version of this window title is "Constanze Kurz, starbug - Wir entziehen uns" (eng.: "Constanze Kurz, starbug - We ...

KDE 4.0: It’s got potential

Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in FreeSoftware, GNU/Linux | No Comments »

KDE 4.0 has been released today. I have looked at an Alpha ad Beta version of it before and was a bit underwhelmed as there were a lot of graphic glitches and instability. Nonetheless the stable is really cool. It feels ...