I have always been a fan of Red Hat, even if have never used their products extensively. They were one of the original movers in Linux-market back when Slackware was big and when InfoMagic CD-rom boxes with multiple distro’s were popular. And I have remained a fan because they succeeded in building a solid company … Read more
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
My wife needed a new computer and we decided on the HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11. It’s a nice little budget laptop with touchscreen but … it comes with Windows 8. Don’t get me wrong, my wife prefers Windows (I’ve been trying to convince her to switch to Linux to no avail), but she really doesn’t … Read more
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
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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
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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
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