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openSUSE/Gnome on the desktop - not quite there yet 16 Sep 2012 | 09:55 am
With some free time and a spare laptop on my hands, I figured I'd try out running a Linux desktop installation once more. Although I've used Linux on servers for more than a decade, all of my regular ...
Saving the day, the McPixel way - I laughed 12 Sep 2012 | 05:52 am
When indie developer Sos found his game being pirated on the infamous Pirate Bay he did something very unusual. Rather than complain, he actually posted in the torrent comments and gave out a couple o...
Quick link: Google Apps, Free version 30 Jun 2012 | 07:24 pm
I rather like Google Apps. Especially Google Mail and Google Docs can be of great use to small teams and could really be all you need. Unfortunately, though understandably (they are a business, after ...
Google AdSense, Don't Be Evil! 6 Apr 2012 | 09:07 am
Today, another story was posted about how a startup, which depended on Google AdSense for a large portion of its income, suddenly found their account blocked and funds in the account frozen. This isn'...
CSS Experiment: bar graphs 6 Mar 2012 | 11:22 am
There was an interesting article about website bandwidth usage posted on Hacker News today. It contains some bar graphs explaining which fractions of the total download size of a site home page is att...
How to beat the boiler room boss in Aquaria 13 Feb 2012 | 09:22 am
Aquaria is an awesome game that I got as part of the humble introversion bundle. It's quite an expansive game and I really enjoy it, though the boss fights can be very tough. One boss in particular: t...
Browser tip: Quickly remove old autocomplete entries 18 Jan 2012 | 01:23 am
Here's a quick tip. If you're entering information into a web form and have outdated or incorrect suggestions in the autocomplete dropdown that your browser offers, you can delete them easily. Use the...
Accessing sites blocked by your ISP 15 Jan 2012 | 09:53 am
Just recently, MPAA/RIAA sock puppets Brein managed to convince some clueless judge to order two of the largest ISPs in the Netherlands, XS4ALL and Ziggo to block (in)famous torrent website The Pirate...
Bye bye PayPal, you suck 7 Dec 2011 | 01:36 am
You may have seen the latest well-publicised PayPal horror story. I've seen plenty of them too and was never really bothered about them, figuring those people might have brought it on themselves. Well...
Virtual Server 2005: The virtual machine could not be started. An unexpected error occurred. 29 Nov 2011 | 04:18 am
I routinely use Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 to run a handful of virtual machines for development and testing purposes. One of these VMs is set to run automatically at system boot. Every once ...
