I was chatting with a friend on yahoo yesterday and we started to talk about vidochat. Kopete should support it. So I tried to get it working.
But it failed. So I spend some time with mister google.
Category Archives: Linux
My writing about linux and the work of keeping myself windows free
Installed umplayer
Most of the time I have been using mplayer or the gnome version of it.
Today i found a nice new player, also based on mplayer, but it seems to have some nice features. Its called UMPlayer.
Fist victim in Skype/Microsoft take over
Well there has been a lot of discussion about Microsoft take over of Skype. Will it end the Linux part of skype, and wjat will it do for the Open Source world that isn’t running windows.
Well in the rss feed today was a story about Skype for Asterisk. I have not used it myself but I did know it was there, and it was a nice feature that we have discussed to include in our pbx, but not come around to do it.
TermKit – new terminal windows?
Found this in my RSS reader today.
“TermKit is a re-think of the storied Unix terminal, where human views, input and data pipes are separated. Output viewers render any kind of data usefully. It may not be a new idea, but it’s certainly a new take on it.”
A wounderfull new take on the old terminalwindow – perhapes
Turn off higligting search result in vi/vim
As a old Unix/Linux programmer I spend a lot of time in vi. Or vim nowadays. And i like the way it highlights search result.
But when I have done what I need with the search i what it to go away.
Having fun with thunderbird
I was having a bit of a problem today. I could not login ot a test account I had and i know I had the login information in one mail somewhere.
Problem was that I did not know in what mail, and not even exactly when. So i was going to search.
Patch problem in Startrek Online
I am playing Startrek Online some time. most of the time I have to relax, im playing EVE and EVE is my “main love” as games, but I love StarTrek so I’m playing StarTrek Online a bit also. But I was almost to the point where I would end my subscription. It started some weeks ago when the new episode started releasing. I had patch problem. And I was not alone in this.
kmix problems
As I mentioned before, Kubuntu 10.10 is using pulseaudio as default. I am very happy with this and its working great. Bet the last few days it has been having a problem. The kmix application is using 100% CPU. As I have multiple cores its not that noticeable but it is annoying.
Nyttt spel på väg
Alla som känner mej vet ju om att jag gillar spel. Och jag spelar EVE Online sedan länge. Och nu har jag även spelat lite StarTrek online, dels för att jag gillar StarTrek och lite för att se var det är. Och det är ganska mycket skillnad från EVE och framför allt så skiljer sig tillverkningen mycket. Alla saker som har med marknaden är mycket utvecklade i EVE eftersom allt görs av spelarna, men i StarTrek är mycket skapat av spelet så man har inte så mycket hjälp när man ska sälja saker. Continue reading
Non window tablet tax?
Apparently there are some work going on in France to put up taxes on tablet PC. Well this might not be that strange, as we have seen taxes on blank CD’s and on cassette tapes. But now the politisians are going over the deep end I think. The will exclude tablet PC’s that runs Windows. Because then its obviously a computer.