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Chris sent me that little gif animation: He was pretty surprised when I poi ...

First there was a Navigator, then there was an Explorer. Later it was time for a Konqueror. Now it’s time for an Imperator, the VIMperator :) That’s the welcome message at vimperator.mozdev.org. Vimpreator is a plugin for firefox, that lets you control your browser like vim.This plugin is a extension to firefox, if you like vim. You can ...

That’s the name of an interesting paper published on the website of NTA Monitor. From the abstract: This paper outlines some of the common VPN security flaws that NTA Monitor have found during the last three years while performing VPN se- curity tests. The paper concentrates on remote access VPN configurations using the IPsec p ...

If you specify files on the emacs command line, you’ll notice an annoying feature of the new emacs version 22. The splash/help screen is always been shown. You need to click a mouse button or press a key before you can see the content of your files. Append (setq inhibit-splash-screen t) to your init scripts in order to avoid this “f ...

While browsing some skype related sites, i came across the skype developer site for skype on linux. There’s a new version of skype for linux approaching. The release number will be 1.4 and (according to the developers blog), it will be out in about 2 months. According to the developer blog, the new version will be compatible with version ...

Well … i should prepare for my next exam on tuesday right now … but surfing the net is much more fun:

I started to use arch linux about two months ago and i still run it on my laptop (i usually tend to change my distribution every two weeks). Arch seems to be the best distro that i ever tried. It has a steady update process and even bigger updates work with only few problems.

I don’t care about the noise my laptop produces, but when i sit at the university library the cpu fan seems to be very noisy =) The fan starts running from time to time and is very aggressive in its cooling attempts. I hope to get some improvements in this concern with cpu frequency scaling. My Intel Celeron M (1.40GHz) can run at 175 ...

I just found the following interesting features in konqueror by fluke: You can control konqueror the same way that you can control vi! Press h for left, j for down, k for up and l for right. You can open a konsole terminal window with the current konqueror directory as working directory by pressing F4 (don’t do Alt+F4 ;)) Did you kn ...

It might not be new to you, but i’m still looking for my favorite linux distribution. Right now a new candidate for the “best linux distribution ever” appeared on my laptop: Archlinux. The Archlinux people promise to ship a lightweight and flexible linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple And they seem to keep this promise ...