Archive for the 'Computers' Category

IPv6

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

I’ve spent part of the last two days setting up IPv6 on my home network, using 6to4 on my Debian based router/server/firewall to enable the outgoing traffic (my lousy ISP doesn’t have full IPv6 support).
I had most of it up and running already yesterday, but hadn’t configured iptables correctly so that some sites, like IETF [...]

Songbird

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

I’m one of those bastards who loved (still do) Amarok 1.4, but just hates Amarok 2 (sorry Amarokers!). It’s just not the same thing. The same thing also applies for me when it comes to KDE 3 vs. KDE 4 (to give you a clue where that ended up, I’m now a happy GNOME (Ubuntu) [...]

Firefox 3 keyhole buttons for Linux default theme (userChrome.css hack)

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

What’s this? A new post after almost a year of silence? I suck at blogging. Anyhow, I write this post mainly to get this thing out to the massive audience that is called Google (since I searched high and low for it before making it myself).
The thing is, Firefox 3 (yeah, I know, old news) [...]

Wasting space, and money

Friday, January 18th, 2008

This story begins Monday night, at about 11pm, when my ~5 year old 17″ TFT screen (HP 1730) suddenly decided to go black. Its power LED still indicated that it was on, so I guessed the backlight was to blame. When restarting the screen, it just lit up for half a second (showing the correct [...]

Where did the time go?

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Whoah, December is only a week away! *Queue up some christmas songs*
Time goes fast when you’re in school, I guess. On the other hand, that’s a good thing, since I don’t have time to long for the perfect christmas (which will never come, of course)… I hope I’ll be able to go skiing this year, [...]