Information technology – Page 4

More writing & some of my articles are now available for free pdf download!

Another editorial written and posted; hooray 🙂 Felt like the right time to update gertschepens.be/writings with the most recent data and while doing so, I found out that 2 of my articles are now available online for your free downloading convenience; the Unity one and the Virtualisation article! Its great to know that anyone perusingContinue reading “More writing & some of my articles are now available for free pdf download!”

Switched Mobile WordPress plugin

As I mentioned yesterday, I installed a dreaded Mobile plugin. I first installed the WordPress Mobile Pack and while that worked, it didnt entirely do what I needed it to do. It was very very extensive but it wanted to create an m.blog.cone.be for the mobi version and that just wasnt what I had inContinue reading “Switched Mobile WordPress plugin”

apologies for the mobile interface

After much much “friendly asking” by people on twitter, I finally gave in and installed a mobile plugin for the blog. which takes me to the apology part; I loathe mobile interfaces. I am always very Very much irked when one of those interfaces kicks in and utterly screws my user experience of that site.Continue reading “apologies for the mobile interface”

Tinkering with the zBox

I have some issues with my fresh ZBox I was seeing some video tearing; the 5.1 isnt working (yet) and I have this annoying issue with the cursor showing after having switched away from the ZBox HDMI. Apparently the 5.1 issue is solved in the newest proprietary Catalyst 11.12 driver and the installing info isContinue reading “Tinkering with the zBox”

Ubuntu NetworkManager

This NetworkManager thing in Ubuntu is horrible. Well; its not too bad actually but the commandline documentation sucks very very hard! A quick brain dump after my questing for anyone dealing with this.. excuse my messy text. A Google search for “Ubuntu NetworkManager Commandline” offers help disabling the NetworkManager; installing it (help.ubuntu) and refers youContinue reading “Ubuntu NetworkManager”

Google listen as an audiobook tool?

Wondering if I can use Google Listen as a tool for listening to (preferably multi part) audiobooks.. So lets throw an audiobook at it 🙂 Part of the thing will be correctly having the audio referred to in the feed; so Ill just cheat here till it works 😀 Any audiobook, really – And ImContinue reading “Google listen as an audiobook tool?”

new 404 page; tnx @Oatmeal

I updated the blog & some other 404 pages with Great art from The Oatmeal Using the icons from http://theoatmeal.com/comics/state_web_summer#tumblr Tnx for the graphics, Oat, You rock!

Streetview; thank you, Google

Though We humans have really made A New Kind of Hell for when old age tackles us all 🙂 I love streetview. Dont we all 🙂 Belgium just got streetview; I discovered they came on a hot day because all curtains in our house are closed; we do that to keep the heat outContinue reading “Streetview; thank you, Google”

Notes on Gnome 3

Its time for another installment of the most useless type of blogpost for readers, notes on .. and this time its the Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3 post! For more info about the concept, please read the “Notes on ..” concept post. The default disclaimer is relevant as usual, auto post set to Nov 9th, 2011,Continue reading “Notes on Gnome 3”

Notes on ..

As I am starting a new Notes On post and am slightly tired already of explaining the concept, this will be my concept post. A “Notes On” post is a post where I type my notes on a certain something over a span of time. A Notes Posts is generally unedited, has an autoContinue reading “Notes on ..”