Don’t let Hillary and the rest of the bunch get away with what they did by simply blaming Assange and Bradley Manning. Bradley is a whistleblower, we need more like him, not less.
http://www.justiceforassange.com/ http://www.bradleymanning.org/
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GIMP with non locale menus
Must admit that I do not find translating everything into Norwegian a good thing, for instance I have Gimp installed on our MacBook. Since I’m not a hardcore photo editing kinda guy I need help from online tutorials to even do the simplest things. But that is almost impossible when you have menus in Norwegian and all tutorials are referring to menus and such in English. So I had to do a bit of surfing on Google, and luckily I found http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070423133918443.
More simply, I dug into The Gimp’s package, and moved the locale folder (found in Contents » Resources » share). I created a new folder, at the same level as Resources, named Resources Disabled, and dragged locale into that folder. This way, I can get the other languages back if I need them. The application now is running smoothly, in English. And one icon in the Dock is enough for either launch or launch via drag-n-drop.
So this is Christmas?
So this is Christmas?
Without any doubt!!! Gingerbread from Sætre, the best there is, confirmed in this test as well.
Christmas according to John Lennon at Youtube
Facebook Tracks and Traces Everyone: Like This!
Read this article digi…/slik-sporer-facebook-alle about how Facebook keeps track of your websurfing, even if you are not a member of Facebook at all. The article is based upon this paper Facebook Tracks and Traces Everyone: Like This!.
Numerous websites have implemented the Facebook Like button to let Facebook members share their interests, therewith promoting websites or news items. It is, thus, an important business tool for content providers. However, this article shows that the tool is also used to place cookies on the user’s computer, regardless whether a user actually uses the button when visiting a website. As an alternative business model this allows Facebook to track and trace users and to process their data. It appears that non-Facebook members can also be traced via the Like button…..
It clearly raises some issues, realizing that the best way to avoid being tracked by Facebook is to keep a separate browser only for checking your Facebook account, where you also deletes all cookies everytime you shut it down. If I bother I would then use on my corporate laptop IE for corporate websites (it is the default browser with much autologin enabled), then Firefox for normal surfing, and at last Chrome for Facebook. It will keep me anonymous when it comes to Facebook, they will still be able to keep track of me, but by deleting the cookies each time and only surf on Facebook, the data will be quite irrelevant.
It is all in your head – if you believe its warm, it is not cold
Hmm, I think I need to reconsider my complaints about the low temperatures, obviously it is all in your head. If you think “It’s warm”, combined with a small (huge?) amount of liquor you do not need to dress properly. Take a look at the girls in Newcastle and how they dress when out on town As-Britain-shivers-Newcastle-girls-prove-theyre-frightened-snow.html
Amazing shots with shotgun
…but not quite sure what the name of the shotgun is, are you able to get hold of it?
[video:youtube:Z5uHt4AwYb4]Cold in winterland
Pictures taken on our way home from Anita and Sven Arne. Woke up to -27 celsius this morning, must admit that I was a bit afraid that the car would not start, but it did without any severe problems. Made sure I had switched off the lights and the AC, then used the glowplug three times and hit it…after about 2 seconds it fired up as usual. Needles to say, I did not stop it, even if it is a bad thing I let it idle for about half an hour before I fastened Anders in the car seat.
Fastest Top Gear lap
The Stig celebrates his birthday, with a Renault F1-car
[video:youtube:Ipmtz4gNaP8]The Aston Martin DBR9, even if it is a full fledged race car, uses almost ten seconds more
[video:youtube:GCAIJ9rd7wA]BMW that does not need a driver
Crazy tech stuff I must say. Must admit that Jeremy is brave doing this
[video:youtube:Kc5JED8TgwI]I want to run Linux on my T60
Currently my Lenovo T60 is reeeeaaaaly slow, my old Windows XP installation is slow due to way to many services running, a huge amount of software which I needed before, but no longer, installed and so on. To get the startup time down from about ten minutes to at least three I must do something drastically. And that includes running Linux and not XP anymore. But I have some challenges, I do have some software that I’m not sure how to run on Linux, this being:
- Polar software for my Polar 725X. Currently no easy option for this, check out http://forum.polar.fi/showthread.php?t=76
- Music Collector, only Windows available. And since the database is a proprietary format it is not easy to export and import the content in a similar software running on Linux. I guess I can use the option of exporting it all to XML and then try to import it, but some valuable information will get lost I’m sure. Anyway, Music Collector should not be that hard to run using Wine compared to Polar, since it does not need any IR.
- Canon software for my Canon FS11. Think this would be the easiest to get around, but still – I do not know how yet.
All other software I’m using on Windows will have competitive Linux-software, so apart from the above mentioned challenges I’m better off with Linux.
But, there is always a but. Tried Ubuntu before, but got into trouble with the wireless card on my T60. Hopefully this is not a problem anymore thanks to the Intel Wireless Wifi Link-project. The driver is supported in mainline kernel so this should be no problem anymore.
If you have any input to me on my issues, plz contact me 🙂