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Conky

on in Linux

If I browse some random “post your screenshots here” thread, I always think by myself: “I should install Conky one time, It looks godverdomme nice”. So I apt-get install conky. And what a dissapointment. It doesn’t work out of the box. You have to...

Resizing images from within Gnome

on in Linux

I take a fairly amount of pictures. Some months more than others. And sometimes I want to share them with relatives/friends. And everyone is using hotmail or some other crappy e-mail provider. So I want to keep the file size to a minimum. Well, then...

autoconnecting wlan on startup without gnome / network

on in Linux

I usually boot up my ubuntu box with gnome, but sometimes I want to play UT (on a bare x server) or I just want to use my laptop as a server. In those cases I don’t boot into Gnome but into the terminal. But the problem is Gnome manages my wireless...

Aaahhh

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30 April was queens day (?) and 1 may was labourday /  Ascension Day. So I didn’t have to go to work. But when I came home (I live 100km from my work or so) I noticed I forgot to pack the adapter of my notebook. I had 1,5 hours of power left. So I...

Blog themes

on in Development

I’m not a designer atall_ but this post on designing a blog theme is very nice. I really like the copyblogger theme I have now. But maybe I’ll try and create something myself. Because a unique theme for a blog is so much nicer.

Also here a post on...

Nice image resizer

on in Development, PHP

You see all the nice (resized) images on my site? I’ve made a plugin for them to be generated. Want I wanted was to add an image in the wordpress editor. Give a height and/or width and that they would be resized automatically.

With proud I introduce...