Broken utf-8
I seem to have broken the utf-8 support on my site, but it is now fixed. Update: again...
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Towards a greener world
Time to save the planet... Just kidding *wish I could*, but I just changed my server from a power hungry 140W eating beast, to a small and nice gentle 15W mini server. A factor ten cut, impressive! My new server is also built from green materials (according to the asus eee box site) and a little bit faster.. Now I hope it will serve me just as well as well as my old one and for the same amount of years..
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256 color terminals
While the rest of the techworld is getting excited about their aero, quartz or compiz 32bit color 3D desktop, I reached a less impressive milestone today:
From now on I use a 256 color terminal ;-). Actually I looked into this earlier, but since gnome-terminal and screen didn't support it back then (maybe upstream, but not in my distro), I enabled support just today.
Excellent documentation on this topic is already available on multiple places, but to summarize for myself:
.screenrc attrcolor b ".I" termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm' defbce "on" startup_message off .bash_profile set TERM xterm-256color; export TERM .vimrc set t_Co=256 colorscheme=asudark
For vim you need a special colorscheme (gvim colorschemes do not work). My vim hacked 256 colors scheme, which work better with a transparent background then the original, is available here.
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Back from Vietnam
Back from beautiful country Vietnam and of course updated the photo section of this site.
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Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Today I installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron on a desktop computer. I am pretty distro/desktop agnostic (see my ten year anniversary post), but since Debian Etch is a bit old for a desktop and Hardy Heron has Long Term Support (I do not want to update/fix a computer every half year!!) Ubuntu was my choice.
There are unlimited gnome improvements which I don't care about, but some things stand out for me in this release.
- Firefox 3 is much better than 2. The memory improvements and the renewed linux (gtk) focus helps. And luckily you can disable the stupid new urlbar in about:config with browser.urlbar.maxRichResults = 0 .
- The way non-free installation for media-playback, video drivers and browser plugins is handled, is sweet! The installation of this software is painless here. I even got a nice 64-bit(!) Java firefox plugin, which I was unable to install in Debian (thanks redhat/icedtea).
- And most important: the colors in the gnome-terminal are smoothened. Now that is what _I_ call eye candy. Less work and much more satisfaction than the integrated compiz.real ;-).
So thanks again for all free software developers!
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