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Archive for December, 2008

22 Dec, 2008

A new home for Super Mario (and me)

Posted by: admin In: fun

After buying some cool new stuff from Thinkgeek my workroom looks like this now. Only the orignal super mario sound is missing. Maybe this will be done in the future.

18 Dec, 2008

Addon Tip for Songbird and Ubuntu

Posted by: admin In: Overall

Songbird is for the first stable release yet powerful.But do you miss an option or feature in Songbird.  Take a look at the addons for songbird. I missed to minimize the player in the notification area of Gnome in Ubuntu 8.10 and i found an addon – Firetray for Songbird. Installed, Restarted, ready to minimize.

18 Dec, 2008

Adobe releases AIR 1.5 for Linux

Posted by: admin In: Air| Linux

A few weeks ago Adobe announced to release new versions of the Flash player and Air simultaneously for the 3 major operating systems Linux, Mac and Windows.
Today Adobe released AIR for Linux in Version 1.5 to catch up with the others. So in future Linux Users of AIR do not have to wait for new [...]

15 Dec, 2008

Upgrade to Wordpress 2.7 – no worries

Posted by: admin In: Overall

The Upgrade to Wordpress 2.7 did not raise any errors and was straight forward. I just followed as usual this guide: http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress
This was the last upgrade i had to make, because of the new automatic upgrade system introduced in Wordpress 2.7. In Future an upgrade will only be a click away. Yay.

05 Dec, 2008

I love Clouds

Posted by: admin In: Overall

I found a really nice tool on our corporate blog. Wordle .
To describe best what worlde does with Webpages – take a look at this picture:

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  • subbu: Hey, Thanks a lot. I was searching for something similar. Subbu
  • Maik: Habe jetzt für ein eigenes (schon ewig geplantes) Projekt auch mit dem ZF(version 1.10) angefangen und das tutorial hier hat trotzdem noch ganz gut g
  • Andreas: Auf jeden Fall eine gelungene Einführung, danke. Vielleicht gibt es ja 2010 den zweiten Teil ;)
  • Hartmut: Genau das Leserecht war bei mir das Problem. Danke.
  • admin: Hi! For more information go to http://extjs.com/ . There is a preview video of this Tool called Ext.De
  • jagocoding: nice info bro... where can i download this tools ?? can u give me ulr, this is free or not ?
  • admin: Of course! This should be rm -rf /tmp/*
  • Christian: rm -rf /tmp* bad idea. at least do rm -rf /tmp/* but if things go worse it will skrew your X Session
  • Aleksandr: Hi! Thank you, it really works, you could even do it in one line like here: http://www.devhands.com/2010/01/how-to-get-the-full-path-from-the-running
  • matt: thanks for the tip. freeing up the distfiles freed me up 5GB of diskspace. My root is only 20GB which I thought should be plenty but my disk hit 100