Jakob's wireless config for Gentoo
Since a few days Jakob Westhoff - a good friend, university and usergroup collegue of mine - has a blog. I convinced him to set one up, because he produces a lot of geeky things, which by now stayed on...
View ArticleBeagle searching Mozilla Thunderbird mails
Thanks to Jakob I found a patch (look at the very end of the page) which enables Beagle to index Thunderbird emails. I created a Gentoo ebuild for me personally to support this. I just made a TAR ball...
View ArticleWelcome Serendipity 1.0!
My favorite weblogging software Serendipity was just released in version 1.0. Thanks a lot to Garvin Hicking and all other contrinbutors for their efforts to build that great piece of PHP software!...
View ArticleBlog updates
I just found 10 minutes to clean up my blog a bit. I switched the theme from my old brownish, dark theme to a nice grey-blueish one by Sebastian Bergmann (thanks!). It now looks much friendlier. Beside...
View ArticleThe Gnome Splash Block
Found while searching how to place the icons inside a custom gnome splash screen. The Gnome Splash Block.
View ArticleCheck your Thinkpads temperatures
Jakob and me just wrote a small bash line that checks the current temperature of the IBM Thinkpad T43p notebook and prints it nicely. Hope we guessed the value meanings correctly.
View ArticleYou never stop learning...
... at least when you are using Linux! I noticed that especially yesterday again, when I ran the small bash line to check my temperature over and over again, after trying to set my fan-speed manually...
View ArticleTool of the year: BitlBee
Kore pointed me to a tool called BitlBee. Imagine that I am currently connected to 4 IRC networks and I am using Gaim for Jabber and ICQ. While Gaim is quite satisfying, it disturbs, that you have 2...
View ArticleComfortable PHP editing with VIM -5-
More than a half year after my last "Comfortable PHP editing with VIM" post, I take up this series again, although I decided to let it die in January. Sadly I did not find any time by now, to extend...
View ArticleSome usage stats
I just came across my website stats and found that the user agent allocation is quite interessting (August 2006):
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