Irregular Expressions have your stack for lunch

I love me some regular expressions (problems), but have you ever seen one crash Apache? Well I have! This regex is part of YUI-CSS-compressor-PHP-port, the external CSS minification component in Autoptimize, my WordPress JS/CSS optimization plugin: /(?:^|\})(?:(?:[^\{\:])+\:)+(?:[^\{]*\{)/)/ Executing that on a large chunk of CSS (lots of selectors for one declaration block, which cannot be ripped … Read more

Feeling the Ubuntu-upgrade pain

I upgraded my Samsung n135 netbook to Ubuntu 11.10 today and encountered some … issues: The upgrade process didn’t disable the powersave schedule, which suspended my computer and the ongoing upgrade After the upgrade (which took hours to complete), the screen flicker problem I already knew proved to have become worse, to the extend it … Read more

As found on the web (October 5th)

frank shared Samsung Taps Intel To Build A New Linux-Based Open Source Platform: Tizen. Samsung Taps Intel To Build A New Linux-Based Open Source Platform: Tizen frank posted Answer by futtta for Better page load performance when loading multiple embedded Youtube videos?. frank posted Comment by futtta on Better page load performance when loading multiple … Read more

As found on the web (August 24th)

frank posted speak.js: Text-to-Speech on the Web. frank shared It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones And The TouchPad. It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones And The TouchPad frank posted webOS is dead, long live webOS. frank published Firefox 6 on Ubuntu Linux swapping like crazy. frank liked High Highs – Horses. frank posted … Read more

Firefox 5 and hiding the navigation bar

I got prompted to update my Firefox 4 to Firefox 5 beta last week. New features include better standards support, speed improvements, better integration with Linux desktops, in-browser software channel selection and support for CSS animations. The final version of FF5 is expected to ship on June 21th. Firefox 5 will probably not include one … Read more

As found on the web (April 13th)

frank liked FIELD MUSIC – ALL YOU’D EVER NEED TO SAY+SOMETHING FAMILIAR+SHARE THE WORDS.wmv. frank posted Celebrating 20 Years of Linux [INFOGRAPHIC]. frank posted Frédéric Péters: GNOME 3.0. frank published Happy conception-day Linux!. frank liked Jenny Wilson – Pass Me The Salt. frank posted IE9: Microsoft is back in the browser game. frank published Daar … Read more

Cross-platform cloud storage with Dropbox

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

Firefox Lorentz: Flash don’t crash here anymore

A couple of days ago I installed Lorentz, a beta version of Firefox. Lorentz is virtually identical to Firefox 3.6.3, except that it incorporates part of the work of the Electrolysis team. Their “Out-of-process plugins”-code lets Firefox-plugins (on Windows & Linux, they’re still working on Mac OSX according to the release notes) run in a … Read more