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Afvalkalenders.be

Earlier this year I started collecting all afvalkalenders for 2010 that people have created and shared in Google Calendar on afvalkalenders.be. Currently the site lists 43 calenders.

Slow Ubuntu 9.10 on a Dell Inspiron 6400

After upgrading a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 the machine was so slow it was barely usable. top was showing a load average of 7 after opening Firefox or OpenOffice.

I'm going to FOSDEM 2010

I'm going to FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting

ipsCA certificates expired

ipsCA, a Spanish certification authority, ended 2009 with a bang. Their root certificate expired on December 30th and they had to scramble to send all customers new SSL certificates.

Drush and rsync

Both drush and rsync are handy tools to automate the deployment of Drupal sites. You just have to be careful how you combine them.

Find the latest Scriptura release

Even in this day and age, my former employer Inventive Designers refuses to send out an email to all customers when a new version of their (closed source) Scriptura product is available. They only send a notification email to those customers whose bugs have been fixed in the latest release.

Problems with Eclipse buttons in Ubuntu 9.10

After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) some buttons no longer work in Eclipse 3.5. Clicking has no effect but keyboard shortcuts still work.

Fietsknooppunten in Layar

I have created a small layer for the Layar augmented reality browser for mobile devices. It shows all known fietsknooppunten in Flanders.

Which Year? available in the Android Market

A couple of days ago I have released the very first version of "Which Year?" - an Android quiz application I started working on a couple of weeks ago - into the Android Market.

pidgin-facebookchat ate my bandwidth

If you are running pidgin-facebookchat make sure you keep an eye on your bandwidth usage.