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Wedding pictures and a website of our own
Quick update to point you all to Ineke & Michiel's website where the first wedding pictures have started appearing. More will follow. Also, it's no longer a site with our wedding invitation (it is archived, however), but also intended to host more info, pictures and other loose ends about us.
| 0 comments »We are married!
We interrupt this broadcast for a public service announcement.
Friday the 2nd of July 2010 at 13:00h CET, Michiel Scholten and Ineke Post got married at Castle Assumburg and became mr and mrs Scholten. Lots of pictures were taken, lots of fun was had. Pictures will follow.
Thank you for your time; we will now continue the regular broadcast.
| 0 comments »Google Account as OpenID
If you want to log in using your Google account as OpenID (as Google is a provider), make sure you are logged in with that account and then use this url as ID on the site you're visiting:
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| 0 comments »Windows-only bios updaters and me
So I have this nice shiny light laptop (the Samsung X360). It came with Microsoft Vista pre-installed, but I never even booted it; I wiped it and installed Ubuntu on it immediately. It's working quite fine, except for some minor issues with its screen's backlight being a bit quirky (it needs a i915.modeset=0 part behind its kernel line in Grub's config).
Of course its manufacturer -- Samsung -- puts out bios updates (thankfully). It seems these could remedy these issues. However, instead of having some DOS-like application which can be run in FreeDOS or something, this is a Windows application which refuses to run under wine (bad idea anyway) and specifically checks whether it is being run on the specific laptop (so I can't extract things from it).
Problem is, Windows has been wiped clean from the machine and I have no intention to put the harddisk through a series of resizing tricks to install it again. I don't even have an install disk from the version it shipped with (a trend I quite hate, despite the laptop not even having an optical drive).
So, dear lazyweb, anyone having an idea how to flash the latest bios on it anyway? A BartPE livecd could be an idea, but I don't have WindowsXP handy...
| 6 comments »Experts Exchange
Stack Overflow is a lot nicer as a source for good technical advice, but Experts Exchange still has quite some answers too; might come in handy for a second opinion/solution on which you can base your own. expert-sexchange is much less annoying with this bit of CSS added to Firefox's userContent.css file:
@-moz-document domain(experts-exchange.com) {
div.qStats {display: none !important;}
div.blurredAnswer {display: none !important;}
div.allZonesMain {display: none !important;}
}
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| 0 comments »How to change the looks of Ubuntu 10.04's GDM
Ubuntu's GDM still does not have a settings window where you can change looks to your liking. However, there are some tricks to still be able to do just that.
First, open a terminal and type the following command:
sudo cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow
You may also want to do the same with display-properties.desktop for setting the resolution of your screen and gconf-editor.desktop to change apps > metacity > general > button_layout to something like "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout".
Then logout, and you'll see an Appearance window pop up (and the other windows if you have copied those .desktop files too). Change it to how you prefer it, then close it and login as usual.
Now, to prevent those windows from appearing every time you get to the login screen, remove the .desktop files again:
sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop
And repeat for the other one or two, if you used them:
sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/display-properties.desktop sudo unlink /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/gconf-editor.desktop
Done!
[Based on this how-to]
| 1 comment »Home update
As we bought a house last year, we're actively following its process of being built. Photograph-loving people as we are, we document the timeline graphically.
The side not facing the street, aka the garden side :)
| 0 comments »Fixed my weblog
Soooo, it appears there was some small programming error which broke sessions in my self-written weblog software. This kinda blocked me from posting here. Combined with a rather busy life and me twittering small blurps instead of writing larger posts this led to dammIT be really neglected.
I plan on reviving this weblog. I will likely stop posting those blogmarks, which will stop the 'pollution' of the archive with lots of wrap-up links-this-week postings. This is still my platform of choice for writing larger pieces on Life, the Universe and Everything, so stay tuned.
Oh by the way, be sure to check out the 2D style refresh I did here ;)
| 0 comments »Blogmarks for Sunday 07 February 2010
Interesting links of this week:
How To Easily Share Your Wireless Connection in Ubuntu 9.10
Epic win
Getting over the barriers to wiki adoption
What follows is usually an excuse for why the speaker feels that a wiki isn't a worthwhile tool for collaboration in his or her environment. I use the word "excuse" deliberately, because rarely does anyone articulate an actual business reason, such as a lack of need. When I ask deeper questions, I invariably find that the objection isn't to the wiki technology itself, but instead to the concept of collaborative authoring and a perceived loss of control over the content.
This column will change your life: Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do
Ever wondered why your friends seem so much more popular than you are? There's a reason for that.
Why is Everybody So Angry about Apple's iPad?
About sums it up. It will be great for quite a lot of people, and won't be "the thing" for users that want more control. I really only hope that it won't be the beginning of closing down *all* computers, as that will seriously hamper tinkerers. Tinkerers that are our future developers/hackers/programmers (think about how you started with IT).
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All
I have a major pet peeve that I need to confess. I go insane when I hear programmers talking about statistics like they know shit when it’s clearly obvious they do not. I’ve been studying it for years and years and still don’t think I know anything. This article is my call for all programmers to finally learn enough about statistics to at least know they don’t know shit. I have no idea why, but their confidence in their lacking knowledge is only surpassed by their lack of confidence in their personal appearance.
| 0 comments »Back to school
So tomorrow I'll be off to my university again to follow a course. Interesting sensation. Nice to go to Amsterdam again though :) *puts laptop in bag*
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