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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 in combination with open office and magicdraw screams for memory I decided to turn of […]

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, but this didn’t work. The following worked much better:

download the winxp drivers ftp://ftp.dell.com/network/R115321.EXE (almost 50 mb!?)
unzip the […]

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
DVD RW
GeForce FX Go 5200
XVGA (1440×1200)

The first thing I did was wiping the disk and install Ubuntu (5.10), took […]

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 port 21 (ftp) to be open.
I ftp’ed into the printer, and was able to see […]

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 are really nice, and actually most development workstations run (k)ubuntu or OSX, superb!

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

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 using OpenGL for rendering. There are a couple of realy nice display effects in compiz […]

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 paper.
Normally I didn’t like the idea of doing taxes since it meant switching to windows […]

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 (NameError)
NoMemmoryError

After going over the following steps:
1. build and installed ruby 1.8.4 from source
2. downloaded ruby-zlib-0.6.0 and […]

Browser requirements for the project I’m working on include MS IE >= 5. To bad, but true. Since this implies that we test the developed application in IE I previously used VMWare (good stuff!) to do this.
But having different versions of IE in windows proved to be difficult and I ended up with multiple VMWare […]