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 ...

The wonders of indexing

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in Jabber/XMPP | No Comments »

I just noticed that this server's jabber server is actually listed on Jabberstats. I guess they are just looking all over the net to get some stats on the number of jabber servers, but still it seemed very strange and very ...

Hy there!

Monday, January 7th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Hy, so looks like this is my first blog post on my first blog. It's probably going to be about the stuff I'm interested in and maybe things happening in my RL, so that's: GNU/Linux Free Software Ubuntu physics data protection random more or less fun ramblings ...