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WIFI, again

Posted on April 25, 2006 by peter

Today I replaced our US Robotics access point by a Linksys WRT54g, hopefully to get rid of all the connection problems we had before. After configuring the iBook and WinXP machine I tried to get my laptop to associate with … Continue reading →

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Dapper & Compiz: huge memory footprint

Posted on April 21, 2006 by peter

After using compiz/xgl for a week (yes, you DO get used to wobbly windows and rotating cubes). I kept noticing the huge ammount of memory used by compiz/xgl… On my 1Gig system it was using arround 500MB! Since running eclipse … Continue reading →

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Inspiron 5150, ubuntu & wireless (MiniPci 1350)

Posted on April 12, 2006 by peter

Posting wireless now, got wireless to work using ndiswrapper Took me a bit longer than expected, mainly caused by  lspci reporting the cards as: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306. I tried to get stuff to work using a driver for this card, … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu on Inspiron 5150

Posted on April 12, 2006 by peter

Today my accountmanager brought me my company laptop:a full blown inspiron 5150! Allthough I’ll really miss the widescreen of my Inspiron 8500 lots of stuff to be happy about: 3.2 Ghz P4 /HT 1 Gig of ram 80 Gig hd … Continue reading →

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network printing

Posted on March 21, 2006 by peter

Instead of the ‘my printer won’t work on linux’ story I actually discovered something neat today when trying to print on the HP Color Laserjet 4600. By running nmap to view to open ports on the network printer I noticed … Continue reading →

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VPRO

Posted on March 11, 2006 by peter

The last couple of days I started working at the ‘Mediapark’ in Hilversum, which is about 10 minutes from my house by bicycle. I’ll be upgrading the 3voor12 site (mmbase) with all sorts of nice features.  The people at 3voor12 … Continue reading →

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International attention

Posted on March 8, 2006 by peter

My weblog seems to attract people from the other side of the globe: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sakamoto_yuki Can’t really read what is written, maybe not to positive at all… but hey, I’m being noticed

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Dapper Drake & Compiz

Posted on March 6, 2006 by peter

Today I installed Ubuntu Dapper Drake, basically to see compiz / xgl working on my own laptop. Xgl is an X server architecture layered on top of OpenGL via glitz. Compiz combines together a window manager and a composite manager … Continue reading →

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Taxes 2005

Posted on March 3, 2006 by peter

It’s time again, I’m supposed to have my taxes sorted out before the first of april. Since Danielle and I both changed employer last year, and we changed stuff in the morgage there I had to go through tons of … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 5.10 breezy & Gruff

Posted on February 17, 2006 by peter

Gruff is a charting library for Ruby which can be used alone or with Ruby on Rails. I tried using it a couple of times, but couldn’t get it to work. The error was non-informative at best: uninitialized constant Gruff … Continue reading →

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