This post will deal with the Alpha4 release of Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”, and it’s new features, particularly the functionality of ATI Radeon cards. I did a clean install yesterday, and this is what i’m liking so far: Empathy, the new default IM client is awesome. I didn’t find plugin support yet, but it’s light, […]
Read MoreSo now there is only one. Blog, that is. The hosting on that other site ends in two weeks, and we decided not to renew, since most of us got static ip’s now (through our workplace, and a special offer by Nebula (nebula rocks)). So now there’ll only be this one blog, here at comfy […]
Read MoreSo they are back. Check out their page now. Apparently, the ISP of the ISP of TPB was handed a hefty fine, in order to shut down the site, but they’ve already relocated. Trackers are said not be up yet, but T-shirts are being sent out to the people responsible for the bandwidth-chopping. The shirts […]
Read MoreSo i’d like to divert your attention to two things that bugged me this tuesday morning: 1) Outlook 2007 autoproofing. I had a client come in with an Outlook 2007, that automatically made headings out of the first words in a mail. So if you wrote “Hi”, on the first line, followed by a line […]
Read MoreSo yeah. Activated my phone on twitter, so i can send SMS messages to update my status. Why, you may ask, would one want to use something as rudimentary as a text message to update your twitter status? Well, one of the reasons is: Data is expensive if you are roaming, or if you don’t […]
Read MoreSo, if you point your browser of choice to http://www.thepiratebay.org you will see this: Yep, it’s gone. The last news out of that place was on slashdot today, stating that the CEO of the company who supposedly bought TPB, has resigned due to charges of insider trading, and a lot of other people leaving as […]
Read MoreSo i got Pidgin 2.6.1 at the literal order of my good friend Anteuz. It’s not in th official repo’s yet, so you can either add a repo where it can be found (link here), or download the source and compile on your own. I opted for the repository, because it just felt like the […]
Read MoreOkay, i’m a man, so it’s time to man up, and admit that my college professor might have had a point after all. I thought this cooky old unix guru was out of his mind when he whipped out x86 assembly for us, but fuck. I’ll have to admit that you can do something with […]
Read MoreI’ve posted some pictures that i took from the roof of our building of the Helsinki International Air Show here in Helsinki. Check them out from the header-bar pictures link, or here.
Read MoreYay! I’ve finally gotten the Pyrit program running and utilizing ATI Stream! I followed these instructions to the letter, though i built RPM from source with the patch for LZMA compressed RPM’s, which did the trick (although, i’ve also read the 1.4.0 beta 2 package of the Ati Stream SDK doens’t have this problem, but […]
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