Firefox 6 got pushed on my Ubuntu 11.04 netbook as an update a couple of days ago and things were badly broken; memory usage was skyrocketing, the kswapd was eating almost all CPU and the system was pretty much in a continuous wait-state. After some cursing and a lot of Scroogling, I finally stumbled across … Read more
Although Linux 0.1 got released on August 26th 1991, Mashable already ran an anniversary-story yesterday. According to Wikipedia’s entry on the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds did start coding in April 1991, so one could argue today is as good a day as any to celebrate our favorite kernel’s conception! My first memories of Linux date … Read more
This weekend I had to resort to Joikuspot (software that turns your 3G-cellphone into a wireless gateway to the internet) for my web-needs. Because I encountered a few problems setting up a connection from my Ubuntu laptop, here’s a quick recap for documentations sake. The rather fundamental issue was that I couldn’t get my computer … Read more
Vandaag 2 opvallende beeldekes gezien in verband met Linux, snel even op de blog gooien:: Naar aanleiding van de lichtjes genante openssl-bug in Debian-gebaseerde distro’s deze grappige cartoon van xkcd (de inhoud van de title-tag komt ook van daar!): Iets serieuzer (alhoewel, een openssl-bug is eigenlijk bijzonder serieus), een indrukwekkende Linux-distro timeline zoals gevonden … Read more
Via blogs over blogs (ongelofelijk hoe populair die zijn) en over seo ben ik op http://www.wordsfinder.com/traffic.php gekomen. Na wat spelen daar ben ik tot de conclusie gekomen dat de keywords “decode mp3 to wav linux language nl language nl” me heel wat traffiek zouden kunnen opleveren. Dat ik plots enkele duizenden of zelfs maar honderden … Read more
Ik ben plotsklaps op zoek naar goeie en goedkope hosting, waarbij volgende features belangrijk zijn: linux (liefst ubuntu of debian, maar redhat ofzo zal wel lukken en in extremis ook freebsd ofzo) shell-access met ssh (inclusief port forwarding!) php5 en mysql5 root-toegang (eigenlijk vooral om sshd ook op de https-poort te kunnen zetten, zodat ik … Read more
U houdt het misschien niet voor mogelijk, maar zo af en toe (als ik op het werk aan mijn nieuwe krachtige laptop met Windows XP zit) vergeet ik waarom ik zo graag met linux en andere open source software werk. Tot ik weer iets nieuws ontdek in die wondere geek-wereld. Zo ben ik deze week … Read more
Yesterday I had the day off, so I decided to finally upgrade my Thinkpad X13 to Ubuntu 22.04. Jammy Jellyfish (as the release is nicknamed) is nice but the new default display server, Wayland, blocks Shutter and other non-native screenshot apps from making screenshots. This interfering with my support workflow as I use Shutter not … Read more
Earlier today I got this question on the wordpress.org support forum for Autoptimize; Will there be Google fonts support in the future? I now include the google font’s like this: wp_enqueue_style( ‘google-fonts’, ‘//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400italic,600italic,400,700,600|Varela+Round’ ); Is it possible to add this css to the combined and minified by this plugin file? The basic question if Autoptimize … Read more
Well, checking out the browser, off course! I had the opportunity to ride along with a friend in his brand new Tesla yesterday. Great ride, but you know that already, so I checked out the browser and data connectivity obviously. I visited my own little “ip check” page and saw this in the logfile: 188.207.103.140 … Read more