I ramble on Internet Explorer and in particular the upcoming IE 9 – date has not been published.
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Linux vs Windows
November 17th, 2009
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On this page I will post stuff that might move me back to Windows. Reasons: OpenOffice is slow and not as good as MS Office iPod sync is not stable Laptop uses more battery than under XP Not getting enough debug/crash data when Linux Ubuntu freezes (and really freezes) Not enough pro level programs (Photoshop [...]
Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade experiences
October 30th, 2009
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Upgrading from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 was an experience in reporting bugs, and maybe fixing one – and at the same time see that some bugs take more than a year to fix!
IDE/Weaver/Studio Ramblings
September 20th, 2009
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On the Linux platform we (web) developers have quite a lot of texteditors or IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to choose from. What I miss are tools like Visual Studio and Dreamweaver. I know that we have MonoDevelop on the Linux (Windows and Mac)-side, but this is mostly a development environment for developing applications (and ASPX-websites). [...]
The freedom in Linux – or the lack of it
September 12th, 2009
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I’ve started to question the freedom that lies in using the Linux operating system. Yes. It is a great operating system, but if I switched back to Windows today I could decide if I wanted to use Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator; Scribus or Adobe Indesign or even Microsoft Publisher; Microsoft Office 2007 or Open Office; [...]
Dual monitors in Ubuntu 9.04
September 6th, 2009
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I got my self two monitors so that I can work more effective both when coding, but also in other situations. I own a Dell Latitude D420 with the mediabay. In this bay there are both a VGA and a DVI port and so I can manage two monitors. I have adjusted a script so [...]
Connected on the road
July 1st, 2009
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I am one of those that can work pretty much anywhere. And with the onboard modem I can connect to the internet through that GSM-card. It costs – of course – so you have to pay attention to how long you are connected. I have therefor configured wvdial so that I can use this to [...]
The world of Linux
May 15th, 2008
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Some days ago Ubuntu 8.04 came out and this is the Long Time Support version (LTS). I want to run this, but it is giving me grieves like crashes and desktop problems. So far I have thought this might have something to do with Nautilus or X-server. But now I am starting to wonder if [...]
