Category Archives: The wonderful world of free software

Since Movable Type is out in a new version with stricter lisence terms, I’m considering switching again. WordPress and Greymatter have nice feature-lists and licenses. But I’m not entirely sure the switch would be painless. Since Movable Type is out … Continue reading →

Har lært: Når eg skriv inn root-passordet mitt ein stad, må eg sjå etter at det går til den terminalen eg vil ha det, og ikkje till eit kjætteprogram. Særleg ikkje ein stad der folk kan utan alt for mykje … Continue reading →

ImageMagick comes with an utility called convert. One use I frequently have for it is to run my digital photos thru it, like so: convert image.jpg conv/image.jpg. So what I do is simply to uncompress and recompress it. This is … Continue reading →

Virtual desktops are a brilliant thing. Microsoft will probably invent them Real Soon Now. For these of you unfamiliar with the concept, instead of one desktop on the screen, you have several. Then you switch between them using the mouse … Continue reading →

Normally, you don’t want the version control system you’re using to maintain your thesis programs to say segmentation fault every time you update, even if it’s a simple consequence of certain core libraries being updated when the computer was upgraded … Continue reading →

UTF-8 er Vegen, Sanninga og Lyset. Ein glimrande måte å bruka ikkje-engelske teikn i tekst på, inkludert teikn som engelskmenn og amerikanarar brukar sjølve, ikkje minst aksentar. Det er frykteleg plagsamt med program som ikkje skjønar seg på slikt, og … Continue reading →

X Multimedia System is a fully misfeatured program with an awful UI, and no amount of skin is going to change that. It’s Free, though. X Multimedia System is a fully misfeatured program with an awful UI, and no amount … Continue reading →

The desktop is here, finally. “Another 15 languages are partially supported, with more than half of their strings translated. Slovak and Norwegian Nynorsk are particularly close to “supported” status.” 2.6.1, it’ll be there. Go GPL! The desktop is here, finally. … Continue reading →

Just in case there’s an unknowing reader: Lotsa URLs are simply too long. There are link-shorteners like tinyurl and makeashorterlink around, but the one called clno has the advantage of actually making short links. Oh, and no ads. Just in … Continue reading →

The short introduction to LATEX isn’t short anymore, but still useful. LATEX the rox0rs. Better maths and figure handling than Word, looks better, smarter design, harder to do new things in. The short introduction to LATEX isn’t short anymore, but … Continue reading →

The short introduction to LATEX isn’t short anymore, but still useful. LATEX the rox0rs. Better maths and figure handling than Word, looks better, smarter design, harder to do new things in. The short introduction to LATEX isn’t short anymore, but … Continue reading →