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New toy

Jens — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:23:54 +0000

Bought myself a new toy yesterday. The Roku soundbridge. Now I can play my music collection that is on my media server from my couch in the livingroom. Right now I using the wireless feature to connection to my LAN but I might need to install another wireless accesspoint to get a better connection having only 10 out of 100 in connection quality. This is me in the couch LOL.

The switch

Jens — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:30:23 +0000

This weekend I made the switch. Instead of Windows XP I am now on a linux distribution called Ubuntu. Still fixing and trixing to get everything the way I want. I will still keep Windows on another partition so I can dual boot if I miss something. Hopefully everything will go fine.

I might ask why?

* I like the idea of free and open source software development
* Will always be free of charge
* Includes more than 16,000 pieces of software
* Great support
* Easy updating and upgrading (apt-get)
* Secure (based on Debian)

10Mbit ISP

Jens — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:29:44 +0000

Looking for good broadband ISP in Sweden. You might check out Ownit. Their selling 10Mbit for 150 SEK with posibility to upgrade to 100Mbit. They also are selling ADSL2 (8 or 28Mbit) connection for 339 SEK. Note: The site is Flash only. I thought these dinasours had been distinguished from the www.

Sonos

Jens — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 08:00:44 +0000

Mmmm, I want those. Already selling in US, only Great Britain and the Netherlands in Europe. Hopefully in Sweden this fall.

Deer park

Jens — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:53:51 +0000

The next big version of Firefox looks sweet, the alpha is called Deer park. Check out the web developer part.

Upcoming WP 1.6

Jens — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:34:29 +0000

The upcoming Wordpres 1.6 looks promising.

Crash

Jens — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:53:44 +0000

Device is defect, errror code 0X22.

This weekend my harddrive crashed badly. Did I have a backup? Yes I did. I finally had use of my backups. So the todays lesson is, make backups, often.

Update: Seemed that it was not a hard disc crash, it was the PSU that did not work correctly. After buying a new one the problem vanished. Strange thing though, the new disc that I bought was mail functioning from the beginning. This made me scratch my head a few times. Even strangier is that the new disc that I bought seemed to be an old disc. It had a bunch of scratches on the side. The plastic bag that the disc laid in was new. Does Seagate re-package old discs they get back and sell them as new?

New digital home

Jens — Fri, 20 May 2005 12:51:34 +0000

After running the this site on my home web server I have now moved to a professional host. When you see this message you are reading it from the Surftown servers. Hopefully everything will work fine after the DNS has changed. I made the decision after talking to my ISP, when we make our “real life” move we will loose our broadband connection for up to 2 weeks. I did not want my site to be down for such a long time. The good thing is that the server will now feel much more faster. Just looking at the how fast the page renders I have cut the time with 66%.

Human after all

Jens — Mon, 16 May 2005 14:45:57 +0000

This weekend I bought my first legal music over the net. I tried the Apple/iTunes music store out and bought myself a nice electronic album, Human after all with Daft Punk.

The registration was a peace of cake and the one click feature almost maked me shiver, it was almost too easy to buy an album. After clicking the buy button, I got an alert asking if I was sure. I clicked yes and the download began. I had a few problems with the download, not really sure what the problem was. Maybe the Apple servers had a lot of visitors this weekend as the store opened last week here in Sweden. I just used the resume feature to get all the songs downloaded.

The price is now 90 SEK (13 dollars) which is not too bad, of course it would be nice with even a lower price but it is a good start.

I will probably buy more albums this way Keep on rocking.

Yes, IE7 has tabs

Jens — Mon, 16 May 2005 12:00:30 +0000

IE7 will have tabs.

Some people have asked why we didn�t put tabs in IE sooner. Initially, we had some concerns around complexity and consistency� will it confuse users more than it benefits them? Is it confusing if IE has tabs, but other core parts of the Windows experience, like Windows Media Player or the shell, don�t have tabs? I think we made the wrong decision here initially, and we�re making the right one now.