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How many times haven’t i come back to my computer and found that it has rebooted on me. At least KDE (and Firefox, and my pro-pimped IE) has session saving, but whatever was on the Windows desktop prior to the reboot … is no longer.
While Windows needs to reboot once in a while, the least [...]

Usability Nestor Jakob Nielsen today posted a fatwā [0] regarding the order of OK and Cancel buttons in native applications and web apps. The short version is “Don’t sweat it, and stick to platform specs“.
The specs, of course, depend on the platform: The KDE and Windows usability guidelines say OK first, then Cancel, while the [...]

Cacti is a free network monitoring and graphing (”trending”) tool, which i’ve managed to install on a computer at work. The idea is that eventually i will have a portable network monitoring tool that is both easy to physically lug around and reasonably easy to plug into a new network and let it do its [...]

I am now running KDE 4 natively on Microsoft Windows. And despite the warnings, it runs on Vista too.

I had not expected this day to come. Ever.

On KDE Linux, i have File Size View to show me how much fat different branches of my directory tree are (i also have du -h –max-depth=somenumber but that’s another story). On Windows i have… nothing. That is, until a colleague of mine pointed me to TreeSize Free. Sure it ain’t as elegant, but hey, [...]

On my work computer (the one with Windows :)), i usually play my music using iTunes or Winamp (due to their scrobbling capabilities) and as a test, i installed Jajuk (because of its network qualities, and because i’m a geek). Everythings been nice and fine. 
The other day, i stumbled across SF-Anytime, an online movie rental site supposedly [...]

It should be noted that i’m an OS agnostic. I believe the right OS, and the right platform, for any job depends on what job needs to be done and by whom it needs to be done. Thus, at home, at my spare time, and whenever i write on my thesis, my platform [...]

Disclaimer: i’ve been living under a rock for the last few months so this is probably old news to you die hard web2.0 geeks out there.
Google has a protocol, and an API to follow, that allows the coding user to access certain data from Google sites. Since that was pretty vague, let me concretisize. Half [...]

My Windows and Mac colleagues will sneer at me, but i finally have MP3 support on my Linux box, that runs Kubuntu 6.06. The Ubuntu Wiki suggests enabling the multiverse repository and installing libxine-extracodecs but that didn’t help me since i couldn’t find the libxine-extracodecs listed at all.
In the end, i googled for libxine-extracodecs and [...]

I’ve re-installed my home Linux installation again. I seem to be the master in configuring it to pieces. These days, however, i don’t worry, and i even take a backup copy before i do things that may be a bit too drastic for survival.
At home i use the SimplyMEPIS Linux because it’s a Debian derivative, [...]