When a good friend of mine bought a Sony Xperia X10 Mini Pro (that small dude does have a keyboard) and couldn’t find JungleDisk in the Android market, I went looking for alternatives (I had already looked into cloud-based storage/ backup back in 2007) and found Dropbox. Dropbox is an Amazon S3-based cloud-storage solution with … Read more
Freedom comes in many shapes and forms, but give me a computer which is not burdened by corporate software and enforced group policies and give me internet access that is not limited by proxies that prohibit you from using half of the web and I’m a happy little futtta. I cracked the proxy thingie problem … Read more
As the official release of Firefox 3 is getting closer, with Release Candidate 1 being available since May 17th, I decided to boldly go where codinghorror has gone before and do a quick-and-dirty Javascript-performance comparison of the different browsers I’ve got installed on my Dell Latitude D620 laptop, using Webkit’s Sunspider benchmark. Let’s start with … Read more
I upgraded my Ubuntu “disktop” from 7.10 to the new Ubuntu 8.04 (aka Hardy Heron) today. The entire process took around 1h30 (download of packages was rather slow) and was incredibly straightforward (as shown in upgrade docs). Everything seems to work flawlessly as far as I can tell. Hardy is running Firefox 3 beta 5, … Read more
Bij de herinstallatie van mijn “disktop” gisterenavond had ik terug identiek hetzelfde probleem. De icybox was weer sdb, ondanks het feit dat die nu wel op tijd aanstond. De Ubuntu installer overschreef opnieuw ongevraagd de mbr van sda ofte mijn interne bedrijfs-windows-schijf. Geen groot probleem, ik wist nu dat ms-sys alles kon oplossen. Maar de … Read more
Ik had weer eens stom gedaan! Ubuntu installeren, daar kan tegenwoordig niets fout bij gaan, toch? Dacht ik ook, toen ik mijn laptop bootte met de Ubuntu Gutsy CD om van een externe HD (a whopping 4Gb in een Icybox!) een ‘disktop’ te maken. Met die disktop wilde ik de regel dat een werknemer geen … Read more