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In this article I will show you how to seamlessly integrate this with Opera. You will never ever want to miss this again ;)
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In this article I will show you how to seamlessly integrate this with Opera. You will never ever want to miss this again ;)
With the new release of Ubuntu 7.04 (aka Feisty Fawn) the Network Manager has become the standard way of connecting to wireless (and wired) networks in Ubuntu.
While this new way has some drawbacks (connection is only established on login, so time doesn't get synced with the internet on startup) it is a great way for all the Linux roadwarriors to easily connect to all sorts of networks. In this mini-howto I will show you how it is done. I will also show you how to automatically connect after the login without needing to enter your gnome-keyring password.
This must be one of the best records I have bought in years. It is so good, I'm even listening to it while writing this post! Ween - Live in Toronto Canada. The feel good record of the spring so to say.
When Ween in 1995 recorded their country-flavoured album 12 Golden Country Greats in Nashville (featuring 10 awesome country songs) they knew taking this release on tour would be hard because they couldn't take all the great country players with them who contributed to this record. They did however manage to get together enough folks to do one gig in New York in mid '96. That gig was supposedly so much fun that Ween and the Shit Creek Boys decided to take this on a 3 week tour.
It turned out to be the most rewarding experience of our musical career. I don't think we played a bad show the whole tour - The 8 piece band sounded like a 747 landing on your house.
[...]
This concert was recorded on cassette by our longtime soundman Kirk Miller and pretty much captures the drunken essence of what this band sounded like on a good night.
This record was on limited release in 2001 and has been reprinted now (again limited). The double LP only comes on vinyl - high quality, heavy, white-marbled vinyl that is. Sound quality is great as expected and it comes with a glow-in-the-dark Boognish sticker!!!
This record is as brown as it gets, so grab it while it's hot and cheap. You can get it on UK and German Amazon, your favourite record dealer, ebay or directly from Ween's very own chocodog label. Get it now.. in a year it will cost you a fortune on ebay!
In other news: After a year of sessions in an old rented farmhouse Ween have collected about 50 songs for their new studio album. Twenty of which have been selected for the new album and are being recorded right now. If you can't wait go and grab some recent live concerts (maybe featuring new stuff?) from the browntracker.
Cheers
Matthias
If you don't know anymore what your buddies and co-workers are talking about when it comes to their online lives... take a look at the following glossary.
This is a bold-faced translation (and slight extension) of a German article by Spreeblick (Per Anhalter durchs Web 2.0) which was just too funny to be shared in the German blogosphere only. So forgive me for stealing this. ;-)
Here ends the list, additions in the comments, please.
UPDATE: I updated the delicious button to the new version of delicious.com (the old ones are still working, though) and updated the theme to the latest Opera default theme. I also added a modified classic theme which works with Opera 5.60 (including scroll markers).
Alright everyone. I admit I have abandoned this site for quite a while but this stops now ;-). For my first post in a while, let me share with you what I did to make my favourite browser even better and more useful.
I've created a set of buttons which you can add to your Opera browser. I made these out of bookmarklets, so if you don't use Opera (which would be a shame) you can still use the regular bookmarklets with your browser. These are the buttons:
And this is what they do (just click on the titles to add the buttons to Opera or drag and drop the bookmarklet-links on your Firefox bookmarks bar):
Post to del.icio.us
BugMeNot
Search this domain
TinyURLThe last one (direc.tor) is especially cool. It allows you to search-as-you-type in all your del.icio.us bookmarks and has a nice tag-browser. Take a look at the following screenshot to see how it works.
One last thing: You don't get those nice icons for the new buttons automatically. They have to be added to the skin you are using. If you use the default skin of Opera you can just use my modified version of it: new skin / classic skin(click to install). To make use of the new icons you will also need a different set of buttons. Use these:
I know this article is similar to one I have written before. But since there are some additions and changes I figured I might just reciycle it ;-)
Cheers,
Matthias
Patriotism is a bad thing because it always leads to people considering themselves superior to others. Local Patriotism is different, though. Support your local dealer. support your local beer brand, support your local whatever, support your local blogs. A friend of mine has a nice multilingual (German / English) blog with stuff from in and around Hamburg, St. Pauli.
So this is my way of support[ing] your local blogs. If you live in or just like St. Pauli go and check out bluebubble.org for nice, charming, and funny stories.
Cheers
Matthias
postscript: the blog is updated more regularly than mine ;-)
Currently, the only feature packed Bittorrent client available in Linux is Azureus. Azureus is great but it has a huge downside. Their developers apparently don't know how to make use of Java's and SWT's speed and there are huge memory leaks. On slow systems this makes using Azureus a pain in the a**.
Windows users have their great µTorrent. Micro-sized and (almost) as feature-rich as Azureus. The bad news is - there is no Linux version, yet. ludde, µTorrent's Swedish developer promised there will be one. I trust he can do it since he already showed his cross-platform dev-skills with his other well-known project ScummVM (which he doesn't maintain anymore). Well, right now we still have to live without a Linux version of µTorrent but the good news is: You can easily run the Windows version using wine. This is what I'm going to explain now. I will show it for Ubuntu but it works simularly for any other distri.
I just saw a gameplay demo of Spore, the next big hit being produced by Maxis and published by EA. I haven't been a big gamer for years but this looks really promising. Basically they wrap up all game concepts you ever heard of in one huge game (except maybe car racing and kung fu). The video is a cut-out of a presentation held at the Game Developers Conference 2006. See the links below for a link the the whole presentation and a nice flash presentation of Spore.
As there are no descent Podcasts in Germany, yet, a friend of mine and I are currently working on one. It is German only, though. Which is of course the point of this Podcast. We call it Z! Zeitgeist, Entwicklung, Technik which roughly translates to Zeigeist, Developments, Technology.
If you understand some German be sure to give it a try! The podcast is still under heavy development and the website doesn't even have an own design, yet. But we're already broadcasting it on a regular weekly basis and we are hoping for a big acceptance.
Everyone has been talking about Ubuntu for the past year. I have been using it exclusively for a little more than half a year now and recently switched over to the new version. So I thought it's just about time to tell you what I think about Ubuntu. This is not going to be a complete review but a subjective opinion with screenshots.
In a recent security comment at Whitedust Security an exploit was posted which will make all versions of Firefox and Thunderbird crash (100% CPU usage). So if you you want to mess with FF users include this in your homepage: ;-)
<strong>
<sourcetext>
Goodbye FF
</sourcetext>
</strong>
Try it here. This seems to be an error in the Gecko rendering engine and should be quick to fix, so lets hope there's an update out soon. Not because of the danger that you would surf to sites including the above code, but surely there will be some jokers sending around spam including this HTML-snipped and making Thunderbird crash.
Some browser vulnerability statistics from secunia.com
Internet Explorer (20/86 unpatched)
Mozilla Firefox (3/25 unpatched)
Opera (0/8 unpatched)
Later
Matthias
Please note: A lot of problems are being reported with this release of GIMPshop. I'm still working on a new compilation - so stay tuned. If you get error messages regarding libraries you can try and check if this libraries are already present in a directory in the PATH (i.e. c:\windows\system32). If they are it might be that you have an outdated version of GTK installed.
A while ago Scott Moschella released a new version of his GIMP hack called GIMPshop. I didn't have the time to immediately put a windows version out. In fact I was without internet and didn't even notice there was new sourcecode available
The last time I released GIMPshop for Windows there was quite a rush on it and my server suffered alot of traffic. So I won't put it on my server but instead use something like uploadtemple.com until some people hopefully offer some webspace for mirroring the setup file.
The installer includes a recent GTK (which should make GIMPshop work in Win98), the GTK WIMP Windows theme and the GIMP Deweirdifier plugin to make GIMPshop a single window application which usually is more comfortable in windows.
Get it here: gimpshop_2.2.8_fix1_setup.exe (just 7.35 MB)
Mirror 1 (at google)
Mirror 2 (danke Timon!)
The apparently broken version is still here: gimpshop_2.2.8_setup.exe (just 7.35 MB)
Mirror 1 (at plasticbugs.com, thx Scott)
Get the source at plasticbugs.com
Cheers
Matthias
On September 20th Opera ASA decided to make it's award-winning webbrowser Opera free of charge. Previously you could get a free copy with advertisement banners inside the program. As of version 8.50 these are removed.
What this means is, that even the most notorious IE or Firefox users have no more excuses for not enjoying the Internet as it is meant to be. Now go and download Opera ;-), see what it can do, have a look at the tutorials or the tips and tricks and join the community. If you want to get really advanced have a look at the Opera Wiki.
As a little starter I made some custom buttons for you. To use them just click on the links and they will be added to the My buttons section in the customization menu (SHIFT+F12). After that you can drag them wherever you want them to be in you very own Opera. My preferation looks like this:
Hope you like these buttons, cheers
Matthias
We just finished and lost our first Round-Robin2 match and lost against the Dutch Aibo team. We clearly dominated the first half of the game and it seemed our code was better. The goalie, though, had problems with locating it's position and left the field twice. This gave the Dutch two possibilities to score and they used them. At least we scored one goal so that we didn't lose to zero.
Losing this match now means that tommorrow we'll have to beat German Team to make it into the quarter finals.
Lots of work aheadMatthias
Day two was a complete success for the Hamburg Dogbots. We won all matches in our group and finished as group first. This doesn't make the next Round-Robin matches easy as we have to play against the German Team. There is not much chance we can win this except with alot of luck. The first match today will be against the Dutch Aibo Team. We are about equally strong I think.
So it is three matches, one today and tomorrow we're going to play two more matches. Two of these we have to win to enter the quarter finals. That means if we don't win todays match against Dutch Aibo we are pretty much out of the competition.
In the mean time we had to time to check out the area around the Intex Osaka Congress Center. It is so strange that nobody here speaks any language but Japanese at all. Even in the big malls the only speak Japanese. Funny about this is that in Japan, too, everything is being "americanized". English signs everywhere, like Summer Sale. But even there no single person I tried to talk to speaks English, Not in the stores, not at food joints, not even at Starbucks, McDonalds or Subway. Nonetheless the people here are the most friendly and helpful folks you could ever imagine.
Got to go now, I will keep you posted on our first match in the second Round-Robin,
Matthias
UPDATE: I just saw the Round-Robin-2 match German Team vs Wright Eagles. This was very interesting for us since both teams have the German Team programming code as their basis (same as us). I might have to explain thit further. The German Team has superior code and since it is Open Source other teams can use it, too. But there have to be significant modifications if they want to use the code in competitions. Here, at Robocup 2005 I think 8 teams are using the GT code of last years Robocup. The game I just saw was a draw and it must have been pretty embarrassing for the GT to be beaten by a derivate of their own code.