Ruminations on the Digital Realm


Archive for the 'General' Category

OpenSUSE 11.0 on Acer Aspire 3681 WXMi

While the Dutch soccer team got kicked out of the European Championship tournament I was watching the Earthquake 10.5 miniseries on the other channel and installing OpenSUSE 11.0 on my laptop. The series was fun with the usual list of plot elements. Intelligent scientist with ludicrous idea which proves to be the only correct idea, [...]

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Edit Wiki pages with a Firefox button

ReadWriteWeb pointed my attention to a new extension for Firefox. Now, there is no shortage of extensions, but this one is developed by various wiki providers and allows you to edit wiki pages with the click of a simple button. A nice one for the wiki warriors out there.

clipped from universaleditbutton.org

The Universal Edit [...]

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Firefox 3 Download Day

Amazing! The counter for first-day download is already over 3,4 million. And while I am typing these few lines another 50.000 where added.

Sphere: Related Content

Promote this article to:

Hide Sites

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

How to migrate from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3

Carsten Knobloch, who is responsible for quite a few German localized portable applications and my portable edition of Flock, wrote an article about the steps to take when moving on the Firefox 3. His suggestion: secure what needs to be secured and start with a fresh installation and a new profile.
The articles deals with:1. Exporting [...]

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Ubuntu 8.04 W2L edition is getting there

While writing the book “Probleemloos overstappen op Linux” last year, we build a custom version of Ubuntu 7.04 (and later Ubuntu 7.10). The tool of choice was Reconstructor and I was looking forward to using it again for Ubuntu 8.04. Unfortunately, the development of Reconstructor hasn’t progressed enough to support Hardy Heron. What alternatives areavailable?
One [...]

Thursday, June 12th, 2008