A Linux User in a Windows World

Yesterday i got my new BluRay player. I got a Pioneer BDP-440 BlueRay player. And as it is suposed to play video from a DLNA server I wanted to install and get that going also.

So I did some search on the networks and after some reading it seems that one of the most used and the one I liked the most was Mediatomb.

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If you upload photos to facebook, perhaps you should make sure you have a backup of them.

In a post in my RSS feed today, there was a problem with digikams plugin that uploaded pictures to facebook. (more…)

Does someone remember the internet as it was 30 years ago. In my rss feed was a lite slashdot article about someone who as started to play back the usenet news archive as it was 30 years a go in real time.

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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.

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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



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.

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I was working yesturday in PHP and came across an interesting problem and it took some time to figure out what was going on.

I had a system that was doing ajax calls to back-ends to show results on web pages. And the system has a php file to be included, that took care of opening config files and open database and stuff. And I needed to have one other file included to add some code in some places.

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I dag har en ny “tv” serie lanserats. Detta är SciFi serien Poiner One. Denna är en ny SciFi serie som just har släppts med första avsnittet. Och dels ser den bra ut men sätte som den distribueras på är också interesant.

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I found this litte blogpost today – about how to install the virtual box guest extensions in lucid lynx. This is good if you whant to run a test of lucid in you normal machine.

Today I came across another cool application on the net. Its called etherpad and I read bout it in the following blog.

Etherpad is a collaborative editor where a number of people (up to 16) can se and edit the same document. A very cool idea.

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