Archive for the ‘Planet’ Category

Microsoft IE Javascript support added

Posted: 24th February 2010 by Gert in Interwebs, Open Future

There, after spending a while figuring out why
if ( something.indexOf(select_groups[i]) == -1 ) {
threw an error; I was finally able to restore IE support. (poor misguided souls needn’t miss out on the Javascript goodies)
Apparently (Try to wrap your brain around this) the javascript version in IE doesnt support Array.indexOf()! All other browsers do, just not [...]

Internet & Security

Posted: 8th February 2010 by Gert in Interwebs, Planet, Security

The new technologies bring along a plethora of delightful new options for consumers to sample content. One of those new ways is the music samples some groups put online. A full track or even a full album to build the hype and allow people to sample the tracks and to persuade them to Go out [...]

Audiobooks

Posted: 8th January 2010 by Gert in Entertainment, Planet

I like stories. Movies, Books, whatever the format. One of the problems is that I cant always read or watch. Like when driving. Some people seem to think that would be stoopid. So I’m down to audiobooks. And im not averse to it, I had stories on records and cds as a child, I love [...]

Yes, this post is indeed about a Quick and Dirty tool to “Convert a Wammu backup file to a .csv” ready for gMail import. I dicked around with the wammu.backup file to get it to plain text for reference and then figured Id better write some quick perl to get it to a .csv so [...]

I wrote this Gnu Screen guide in December ‘08 with the previous incarnation of linux.com in mind. January 2009 however, linux.com started on its new and exciting path as a community site and the article just sat on my machine, waiting. So I decided to publish it on my blog in a four part series [...]

Open-Future Launch Party

Posted: 1st December 2009 by Gert in Open Future

Im happy to say we re having our Launch Party on 12/07/09 at the Oude Abdij in our home town of Kortenberg!

We spent an exciting period of setting up the tools and servers and are now Ready to come out and Party

Open-Future Launch Party – Making Open Source work for You!
Date: 7/12/2009
Location: Oude [...]

I wrote this Gnu Screen guide in December ‘08 with the previous incarnation of linux.com in mind. January 2009 however, linux.com started on its new and exciting path as a community site and the article just sat on my machine, waiting. So I decided to publish it on my blog in a four part series [...]

Having seen the ChromeOS presentation.

Posted: 20th November 2009 by Gert in Interwebs, Planet

Excited as a little kid on XMass, I went scouting the interwebs for the chrome presentation vid. Apparently its being streamed on some obscure site that offers .wmv and the other crappy format. I am speechless at the fact that I need to watch the new google os being announced on some stream that cant [...]

I wrote this Gnu Screen guide in December ‘08 with the previous incarnation of linux.com in mind. January 2009 however, linux.com started on its new and exciting path as a community site and the article just sat on my machine, waiting. So I decided to publish it on my blog in a four part series [...]

Picture Of The Day

Posted: 16th November 2009 by Gert in Interwebs, Open Future

We re trying a Picture of the Day effort with some of the Open-Future peeps..
Post one picture each day. Of Anything.
* Take a picture using your phone. (No recycling, a fresh picture each day!)
* Post it to twitter/Identica
* Mention the #PictureOfTheDay tag in the message.
Picture of the Day
Feel free to join in!

Gnu Screen ; an invaluable tool!

Posted: 10th November 2009 by Gert in Linux, Open Future

I wrote this Gnu Screen guide in December ‘08 with the previous incarnation of linux.com in mind. January 2009 however, linux.com started on its new and exciting path as a community site and the article just sat on my machine, waiting. So I decided to publish it on my blog in a five part series [...]

Mobile Barcoder

Posted: 11th October 2009 by Gert in Interwebs, Open Future

Mozilla Firefox has a Great plug-in (One amongst many) called Mobile Barcoder 0.2.0.
Its basically the solution for that moment when you find an article you want to read, but want to read it on your mobile instead of your laptop. But dont want to type that long URL. Simple solution.. Make a QR code out [...]