It is always fun looking at old work you have done a long time ago, isn’t it? In my case it is a site that was used on my old playground www.stargazer.at, where everything started. One of the problems of the old times are those rollover effects used with buttons which were used to be preloaded using Java […]
Category: IT Related stuff
That’s where logic ends
JSSpamBlock is (really) dead now?
After Paul Butler’s Announcement of the end of JSSpamBlock maintenance, I was not really worried about the plugin itself, as it still did its job in a perfect way. If you think back, there are enough unmaintained plugins around, doing their job perfectly within a current WordPress installation. But you know about theory and reality by now, because […]
Blitzmeldung
Heute gibt’s was gratis: Codeweavers bietet deren CrossOver Office für 24h gratis an, da Bush mal wieder was geschafft hat, wo er wieder mal absolut nichts dafür kann… Gefunden bei Toei Rei
Speeding up
“Don’t settle for ‘make boot faster.’ It’s the wrong question. The question is ‘make boot fast’.” – those are the words of two Intel developers rumbling the Linux scene: Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok. Their idea is a quite uncommon attempt, disregarding the fact that Linus Torvalds dislikes it: They want to boot a whole system […]
HeadlineAnimator
If I have to think back at the times I have started developing the HeadlineAnimator for having a fine signature at the discussion boards, I tend to look at the documentation I wrote those times as I cannot exactly remember all of the details by now. But there’s one thing I know for sure: The code still works […]
KDE 4 – no thanks (yet)
It was quite a surprise as yesterdays update list showed KDE4. They have unmasked and keyworded it for ~x86. Having mixed feelings, I started the emerge procedure which took a while until my system was up to date again.