The toman diaries

Sanity in a universe of ProCon[TM] People

2005-05-20T06:06:00.002+02:00

When you drive around the internet in your salon, be it Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror or even IE, you cant help but come across some discusison sites. Many of these sites discuss issues worth discussing, like how to best fit a chain on a bycycle, or what the shortest route to heaven REALLY is. You cant help but getting struck by the enourmous ammount of content in many discussions out there..

KDE Splash screen for SuSE

2005-03-08T22:20:00.000+01:00

I made my first ever GPL art, a splash screen for KDE on SuSE

When your host crashes

2005-02-13T09:24:00.000+01:00

Powertech, the nice firm that hosts the free home.no.net domain, had a serious outage on friday. At first it seemed as if they were having a simple reboot, but as the hours went by I started getting suspicious. First of all, my website wasn't responding. Then their pop3 mail service wasn't responding. Then their FTP server "couldn't change directory to my home" (This ftp server is running on a

A new graphics card

2005-02-10T03:03:00.000+01:00

I just got a new graphics card for my PC. I initially ordered an Asus card with an nvidia mx4000 gpu and 128MB ram. It worked, but only for a few minutes at a time. It simply forze up my screen, couldn't move the mouse or use the keyboard. So I returned it and got a new one in a week. Same behaviour with that. - Frustrating After exchanging some e-mails with PS Data, they agreed to send me an

PC case Cooling

2005-02-06T19:23:00.000+01:00

Like I said, I just got a new PC.. Not much to write about it, except its a lot better than my previous one :) If you want to know what parts it consist of, look here. I've always been facinated by physics and technology, and cooling is a physical science.. Cooling a PC efficiently seems like a nice thing to do, and not too expensive either it turned out. When I first started the PC and ran it

TV in Suse 9.2

2005-01-21T20:49:00.000+01:00

...is easy. I just installed a modem in a guys new PC, but to do that I had to remove the TV-card it came with, all PCI slots were taken. I'm just off the phone with the guy, he cant get the modem working at his place either (and we couldn't here), but the point is: I got to borrow the TV-card (Asus [something] 7133 FM/TV) to see if it would work under Linux, or more specifically, on the old PC

A new PC underway

2005-01-03T03:58:00.000+01:00

In many of my posts here I've been complaining about Linux, slow FIrefox, slow this, slow that. Today a new PC is waiting for me at the post office. It is a custom built one (of course), without floppy, cd-rom, keyboard screen or anything peripheral. I have all those already (typing on a keyboard now for instance). Processor is AMD Sempron 2500+, memory is a value thing from Geil (2x256MB),

Firefox 1.0 for SuSE

2004-11-12T04:37:00.000+01:00

Firefox 1.0 is out, thought I should mention although it is generally way to slow for my 300Mhz machine.... And people say there's not much difference between major browsers when it comes to speed! BS! Both in loading pages and showing me the interface Opera is king. I need to use firefox on occation though, to doublecheck my websites. Opera is better in all these repects of course ;-) And

Filesearch ala Google

2004-10-16T02:25:00.000+02:00

Google has relesed a beta of their take on filesearching, called Google Desktop Search. It works by indexing all files on your computer, that is, it scans all files and put them in an index, a database. This lets you find the files a lot faster than you otherwise would. It scans continously, so keeps the database up-to-date enough so that you can find what you browsed in Opera or IE just a

The Wall

2004-07-11T03:11:00.000+02:00

Israel says it doesn't respect the International Court of Justice. Israel says in it's statements that the court consists mainly of Europeans, and that these arn't actually known for being "pro-Israel". (eg, dont like occupation, but thats another matter is it?) Sure enough, 5 of 15 judges are from european countries. (Two from the middle East, two from Africa, two from South America, one from

The Iraqi flag

2004-07-04T22:08:00.000+02:00

I remember reading about the CPA making a new flag for iraq that would indicate "new times". But noone has yet started using the proposal, and it is disputed wether there actually was a competition about the design at all, although both the competition and the new flag was announced by reuters. I guess reuters got it from "official channels" in the CPA. According to The Independent, the flag was

Getting desperate

2004-07-04T03:32:00.000+02:00

The George W. Bush /Dick Cheney election campaign-aratus is getting desperate. They are sending leaflets that contain a list of 22 Coalition Coordinator duties (does the term Coalition Provisional Authority mean anything to you?) church leaders should perform on their behalf: Send them a list of all members of their church. Tell them about at least one more church they can instruct.

Microsoft France thinks source code is a password

2004-07-02T21:02:00.000+02:00

Paris City hall is buying new computer systems, concidering various software vendors, among them Microsoft and various Open Source alternatives. The Open Source software is so cheap to install and run that Microsoft has let its resellers in France cut prices by as much as 60% to get a deal. Paris says price, ease of modification (because of open source-code) and more importantly, security is the

The Fox, an intelligent yuropian-hunter

2004-07-01T15:59:00.000+02:00

Just a little quote from FOX news, which claims to be "Fair and balanced" Bill O'Reilly "interviews" Charles Kupchan, professor International Relations at Georgetown University about why France doesn't want to send NATO troops to Afghanistan but EU troops instead: FOXNews.com - The O'Reilly Factor - Interview - France Is At It Again: Hurting America's War on Terror: "O'REILLY: Isn't

Krekar again..

2004-06-16T16:55:00.000+02:00

Mullah Krekar's case in Norway was tossed out of court because of lacking evidence yesterday. The same day, the US said they were still convinced that Krekar was a terrorist threat. Interestingly, the judge said "it didn't make the case much easier" that one of the key witnesses which had 'evidence' against Krekar, had been tortured by PUK (one of the Northern Iraqi groups) while he was being

Bergen Commune goes Linux

2004-06-16T09:02:00.000+02:00

digi.no reports that Bergen Commune, housing the second largest city in Norway with the same name, is switching all its networks from Windows and UNIX to Novell Suse Linux citing millions of NOK in savings, better security, more options and higher stability. The commune has two networks, the educational network with 36.000 users (32.000 students and 4000 teachers) and the administrative network

Firefox

2004-06-11T05:23:00.000+02:00

I just installed Mozilla Firefox on my SuSE machine. It is the slowest program I have ever used. Period. It took between 5 and 10 seconds to open a new tab, sometimes it took just as long before a tooltip appeared. I dont know why this is... Is it because it uses GTK instead of Qt like Opera does? I doubt it, other programs use gtk too, like the GIMP and gtk-gnutella. The gimp is relatively

Back to SuSE, 9.1 this time

2004-06-07T06:33:00.000+02:00

As you've read, I've gone back to Linux again, after doing some on and off with Windows XP. I found that going to Windows was faster (that time), but the Windows management has me frustrated. Its almost impossible to manage seriously without having some kind of schooling. Linux on the other hand, has millions of user groups that, through figuring out things by themselves, has really learned how

Finally

2004-06-07T06:06:00.000+02:00

I dont know if its me or if it is the actual lack of skilled journalism out in the world, but I think I have found something quite unique: an article about the web as we know it, and why we must use standards to keep it. It explains why you must use standard data in your website, or be forced to do the longhorn dance. It is us or it, we the people or microsoft. Open vs closed, freedom vs central

Sound, this time in Fedora Core 2

2004-06-03T17:50:00.000+02:00

I have an old Compaq system, a presario 5030. This isn't very nice to Most linux distros when it comes to (at least) sound. Making sound work was moderately easy in Suse 9.0, all I did was tweak some settings, GUI style in Suse's excellent YaST config tool. Turning off PNP detection worked there. With Fedora Core 2, things didn't go as smooth intitially. I did run Core 1 once, and using

Good ol' days

2004-05-01T18:30:00.000+02:00

First you occopy a country, then you piss on its prisoners. Thats liberation for you.

More gmail

2004-04-27T17:16:00.000+02:00

I read that gmail is facing trademark battles, many are calling themselves or their products gmail already. In Norway, a company selling sunglasses are calling them (or him)selves google.no. I just found that a company calling themselves Gallager & Robertson is selling its e-mail product gmail under the domain www.gmail.no I wonder if google will loose their legal battle against them too...

Yay, I've got G-mail

2004-04-27T16:44:00.000+02:00

As a blogspot user, I was invited to try out gmail: yay! And it works pretty fine. But only in IE and k-meleon. Argh. Not Opera 7.5 beta1. It loads in Opera, but after getting all the HTML, it is just white. - No matter what settings I use :( It appears that google uses some activex, which Opera doesn't support) Sigh. I'll have to use my 'Open link in k-meleon' menu item then... Its funny though

Scary commentary

2004-04-25T02:52:00.000+02:00

Commentarys tend to be the most insightful and entertaining articles in most magazines and newspapers. They give the writer more room to elaborate and think things through than does the first serve, most money - breaking news.. Today however, I read a zdnet commentary by Grover Norquist, talking about the EU case against microsoft. He argues that the case disturbes the american economy by

Paper DVD

2004-04-17T12:41:00.000+02:00

Sony and TOPPAN has developed a 25 GB blu-ray DVD disc consisting of 51% paper (moulded with some plastic I suppose). Benefits? Cheaper production, more rigid (believe it or not), and finally it allows for higher quality label printing. As a bonus you can probably use your paper schredder to destroy your sensitive data... I'm looking forward to better-looking, more natural-feeling DVD's

Its already possible!

2004-04-10T13:36:00.000+02:00

I read at bbc that.. "By the year 2010, file-sharers could be swapping news rather than music, eliminating censorship of any kind." Why, its already possible, very very possible! By using a)A descriptive file-name, and/or b)metadata for the article you're publishing into the Gnutella and Gnutella2 networks, you can publish anything you want, anything. - And anyone can find what info they want

Learning how to compute

2004-04-10T10:42:00.000+02:00

I just read an article on newsforge where a sysadmin is telling the story of his three year old grand-daughter learning linux. It was a fun read, not only because I like to hear success-stories about Linux, but also becuse it reminded me of my first steps on my brothers first computer, a commodore 128 (I never got one myself). While I don't remember how I started things, how I saved things, or

Check - 1,2,3 froogle

2004-04-07T18:32:00.000+02:00

Want a quick way to check the current prices for some product? Use the new Froogle wap service in your Opera hotlist. I've previously mentioned how you can customize Opera's wap display to make it perfect for the hotlist.

Isn't Bill an MS fashist after all?

2004-04-06T03:23:00.000+02:00

Corbis, the professional photo site, was founded in 1989 by Bill Gates. Ironically, you can now win an Apple G5 a day by logging in to that site. Oh the irony... Thanks to achhoo for mentioning gettyimage for me, this made me think of corbis, and well...

gmail = 1 gigabytes of mail

2004-04-02T17:43:00.000+02:00

OK, is it an aprils fools joke? Seems not, cause google announced march 31(the most popular story on cnet right now btw) that they would set up a free webmail which offers users a whopping 1 GB of storage. Then they issued a pressrelease the 1.april, and its still there the second (today). So we checked it out, we in #opera at irc.opera.com, and found that they indeed had mail-servers in place

Back to the Windows

2004-03-17T13:46:00.000+01:00

I admit it. I gave up. I resorted back to Windows after trying a myriad of Linux versions. Why? Every Linux was way to slow on my pii300 machine. Lastly I ran Debian woody with nothing installed except Xfree86 and WindowMaker besides the 'base system'. - And Opera, just to try if it would help things out. But no, Opera was as slow on Debian as on Suse as on Fedora. Windows XP pro is a dream come

Funky radio

2004-03-13T11:13:00.000+01:00

Wefunk is one of the best radios on the net.. It does old-school Rap, good rap and good funk and absolutely no talking. Check out their archives! Besides their HTML and CSS is also pretty tidy.

WML, the real RSS?

2004-03-13T03:53:00.000+01:00

RSS is, like many point out, and I agree, brilliant for retreiving content quickly. (It was built for content, no surprise there). But as RSS catches on, organizations will probably start putting images, html formatting, ads and whatnot in it too. Which means we're back to where html is now: at XHTML. So whats the point then? Why not simply use XHTML if you want to convey images and push ads?

Crashing Gimp

2004-03-11T07:50:00.000+01:00

I hate creating gif's for transparancy, because of the stupid unisys patent. Besides, png always look better, and is almost always smaller too. And it's a bloody free standard, and I love those. - I use the Gimp for image-creation, and it started crashing when both saving and opening png's a few weeks back. I have no idea why, but after deleting zlib.dll in the PATH of my system (this was

Torrents in Opera, with Suse

2004-03-05T21:45:00.002+01:00

I don't know about you, but I love bittorrent. It's just so efficient and so plain simple to use. I've lately been struggling uphill to understand Linux, and I think I'm getting to grips with it, albeit slowly. Coming from the windows world, I'm in effect handicapped by all the glamour and flashing lights (although they often fusk). I wanted bittorrent to work in my Suse 9.0 installation, and so

Compiling fun

2004-03-02T03:23:00.000+01:00

Yay, I've compiled my first programs! It started with PSI, which went smooth as butter. But when I wanted to check out Qtella, I got into trouble. It complained I didn't have the kde-include files, or rather, that I may have installed KDE in an odd place asking me to provide the --with-kde-includes= option to ./configure. Little did I know that I had to install kdelibs-devel. So if you have a

Bin laden caught?

2004-02-28T17:04:00.000+01:00

The iranian state radio is reporting that Osama was caught long ago, in Pakistani areas. But both American and Pakistani officials deny this. I'm not going into a discussion about the fact, cause those are impossible to get when there is war. What is interesting though, is why he hasn't been cought when all countries around afghanistan are in with the US war against Bin Laden's associates.

MS offices, uh ...

2004-02-27T16:55:00.000+01:00

The part of the distribution contracts that said vendors had to give up their rights to their patents when facing microsoft has been removed! "For customer satisfaction reasons". Yuck. And further: "Microsoft believes that the patent-related provision is lawful under Japanese, US and EU law," Funny how they think it's OK to circumvent patents themselves, while they "believe in Intellectual

MS offices raided in Tokyo

2004-02-26T10:36:00.000+01:00

Quote from the BBC: "The Fair Trade Commission alleges that Microsoft insists that if the companies - such as NEC, Hitachi and Sony - want to pre-install its Windows software on their computers, they must sign away their right to sue the US giant, even if they find it has used their patent technology." ... "Unless Japanese companies agree to the clause, they cannot pre-install Windows in their

HipHop is everything is ...........

2004-02-24T10:07:00.000+01:00

I just watched the movie Scratch. It's a really funky film about HipHop culture, breaking it into it's various parts, looking back in history, looking at present state commercialism and the future hiphop version of that. The movie itself feels like made by a DJ, every Point is scratched upon, everything is one long set of intertwined scenes and it really, really flows. I got kinda tired at

Mullah Krekars attorney speaks

2004-02-20T21:38:00.000+01:00

You all know about the north Iraqi group Ansar al Islam, and its former leader mullah Krekar. Krekar is in Norway and is being prosecuted by what seems like the entire norwegian legal apparatus. The allegations have been varying, the first terrorist-allegation was dropped a few months ago, but there are now 'new' evidence around. The claims are that Krekar has been directly involved in many

Windows NT4/2000 Source code leaked

2004-02-14T01:03:00.001+01:00

Yep. Someone has brought the source-code of w2k and nt4 into the public. This will be really interesting to see play out. Microsoft has already posted a note on their press page saying it's not a result of their shared source sheme nor is it leaking in-house. So who did? The obvious answer is an ex-employee. It appears it comes from someone at mainsoft.com; a crash-log generated by Linux(!) when

RSS validity

2004-02-07T11:05:00.001+01:00

In an effort to improve a stylesheet for RSS, I went googling for +http OR +www OR +the filetype:rss OR filetype:rdf OR filetype:atom. The search returned 241.000 results. Seing how XML is used in many none-rss applications like web-pages, I excluded that type. Anyway, if you are interested: The stylesheet worked perfectly on 87.875% of the first 800 feeds, leaving 12,125% barely readable.

Was the MyDoom creator an American?

2004-02-05T17:07:00.006+01:00

The Norwegian e-mail provider runbox has been touched by the FBI in relation to the MyDoom worm(s). When the Bugbear virus broke, one of their customers was in the spotlight, and the individual has been paid close attention to for the past year.although the name he is using on runbox has now changed slightly. A person with a name suspiciously alike that is using a runbox account now. Yeah,

English and Norwegain

2004-02-03T17:39:00.000+01:00

After having spent much time online where the the langauge I read is predominantly English, I like to tell myself that I know english quite well. Natively norwegian and having been tought english since 4th grade should also help that though. It is however, much easier to express oneself in ones own language, even if I write mostly in english as evident in this blog and most of my other

Suse and ALSA

2004-01-10T08:22:00.000+01:00

And here you go: Kevin W asked me kindly to go on with the description on how I got sound working in Suse on a Compaq Presario 5030, because his ESS es1371 card wasn't working in his Mandrake box. I believe Mandrake uses the same sound-setup as RedHat and Fedora, namely sndconfig, so this will probably not apply. Also the es1371 card isn't the same as es1869. Anyway, this is the story: Run

Word security 'feature' ?

2004-01-09T13:58:00.002+01:00

It's weird. Just when you start believing Microsoft will do security out of the box, I'm utterly dissapointed again. - Not that I ever really believed MS actually would put security ahead of marketing, but there you go. MS Word has a feature letting you password protect documents you create in the proggy. I never used it, and I didn't even find it when looking. Maybe I just have the wrong

Sound Suse!

2003-12-29T04:38:00.000+01:00

What do you know, I now have sound with Suse! :-) - It was a matter of turning off PnP-checking for the card in the sound setup in Yast. I'll have a more detailed description later on...

NEW! Opera 7.5P1 (and Suse)

2003-12-26T05:19:00.000+01:00

Opera 7.5 preview bounced in my face just as I was installing Suse 9.0 on my outdated machine. I haven't had much time to really test it yet (Opera that is), but here are some highlights: IRC chat! For the time being, it's just a "front-end for chat" Opera-folks say. I hope that means they will include Jabber soon too. After all, Jabber is about standards, which Opera has touted since day

RSS Revisited

2003-12-03T12:02:00.000+01:00

After publishing my CSS for RSS in Opera, I've gotten very little feedback. Perhaps people just don't want RSS? More likely I'm witnessing what other people deveoping things experience: The black hole downloaders. I know, I'm one of those black holes myself, getting stuff off the web is convenient. You too often forget that there are actual people behind it all. Anyways... I have gotten to a

Wave of sharing

2003-11-15T15:42:00.001+01:00

BitTorrent. I didn't really start using it until we got 864/350Kbps broadband, but damn!, it's working good. I get about 80~105KBps down with 30KBps up. Anything above that (max 40) and the downrate decrease on a logarithmic scale to about 50KBps. For those that don't know, Bittorrent is a unique way to do file-sharing. Unlike Gnutella and the like, Bittorrent is tied into the normal web,

Koolness in the taskbar

2003-11-08T08:21:00.000+01:00

Ever since I started using the internet, I've used various toolbars for searching the internet. Among them include metaeureka's toolbar, and winbar. Both are kinda overkill if you want just websearch. Metaeureka's solution is indeed very handy, it includes many tools, like clipboard history, sms, password keeper, ping, traceroute etc-etc. "38 useful tools in one program". Winbar is more in the

RSS vs CSS

2003-10-28T00:45:00.000+01:00

OK thats it. Anyone have an RSS stylesheet that works with every thinkable version of RDF/RSS? I'm trying to make a suitable one for use in Opera, but it's a chore. In the end, the sheet will probably be larger than the avarage web-page. Sigh. Opera seems to have very, shall we say, odd problems about the RSS tags , <link> and <image>, but I'm still trying to figure out how exactly... </article> <article> <h1>Oh, google</h1> <p>2003-10-24T00:32:00.000+02:00</p> Sullivan asked, "What do you think remains largely unknown about Google?" Brin answered, "The tilde operator," a new search command that enables users to search not only for a particular keyword, but also for its synonyms. This is accomplished by placing a ~ character directly in front of the keyword in the search box. Try it yourself: ~Audio, ~Bicycle, ~Lady, ~Freud, ~W3C. Seems to </article> <article> <h1>Go home plug!</h1> <p>2003-10-19T17:02:00.000+02:00</p> I just found out about this new and brilliant system called homeplug. (OK, so it's old news, but living in Norway where noone sells these goods, it's hard to get a hold of new ideas before you need them) It's a networking standard using the existing electrical wiring in your house for communication. Some has reported as much as 12Mbps throughput, while testing shows that 5-10 is more common. </article> <article> <h1>In other news</h1> <p>2003-10-19T08:30:00.000+02:00</p> A high-standing russian delegation has visited a norwegian air-force base for the first time since the cold-war ended. "Chief-in-command" Vladimir Sergeevitsj arrived wearing a sweater and a leather jacket. And whats worse, at least according to the press, the russian folks took many pictures! -Where the press wasn't allowed, of course. So the major newspaper here, Avisa Nordland, has run a </article> <article> <h1>White water</h1> <p>2003-10-19T08:15:00.000+02:00</p> Jup, it's snowing for the first time this year. And it's about zero degrees, so anyone travelling with tires on the ground are hastingly changing them. Except for me that is, cause I don't have a car(or a drivers-licence), but a bicycle. And I've never used winter-tires on it anyway, so why this year? Have a look at the webcam from a city near me, or better, a gallery of nordland, the county in </article> <article> <h1>Jabber has passed ICQ</h1> <p>2003-10-15T22:46:00.000+02:00</p> According to jabber.com, the total number of jabber users has passed that of ICQ users. This number includes 'normal' users like you and me, and corporate ones, which number is 4 million. Corporate users find it easy to use because of it's well documented protocol, using XML. Like other IM's, you can do things like 'instant file-transfer' etc. Anyone can set up their own server too, making </article> <article> <h1>Opera 7.21 out</h1> <p>2003-10-15T04:54:00.000+02:00</p> Opera 7.21 is out. It turned out to be the same as RC6, which I failed to report.. - The RC's were coming tightly... So summing up, whats new in 7.21? It is syncronized on Windows, Linux (SPARC, Intel, PPC), FreeBSD (Intel), and Solaris (SPARC). This means you can use Opera as a reference without rebooting ;-) Many bugfixes, see the changelog Reopen feature, lets you open closed pages. </article> <article> <h1>Should Cannabis usage be illegal?</h1> <p>2003-10-13T01:14:00.000+02:00</p> Many countries are concidering this. As you may know, it has been 'decriminalized' in the Netherlands for quite some time. Switzerland is actively debating it, and England has been loosing up, letting possesion of minor quantities go with a warning. In Norway, March last year, a regularly gathering "Punishment law commision" (Straffelovskommisjonen) recommended decriminalization of </article> <article> <h1>CIA headquarters carbombed</h1> <p>2003-10-12T21:02:00.000+02:00</p> CIA headquarters in Bagdad has been bombed by two martyr-bombers in cars. They shook enormously and broke every window in the nearby streets. Iraqi police enlightens us a little bit on why: Of course, CIA headquarters is one thing, but in the same hotel, several members of the US-appointed interim government also lived. No wonder people are provoked. Remember that nobody wanted this war </article> <article> <h1>Boy meets Girl</h1> <p>2003-10-12T20:42:00.000+02:00</p> In Norway, Boy-scouts and Girl-scouts have been separated in their fieldtrips and all other activites. They even had their own two organizations, called KFUM and KFUK, respectively. Today, they merged into one organization. Affirmative action works! - Though in this case, I think it is the women that wanted it separate in the first place... Poor little girls. </article> <article> <h1>The ISP journalist</h1> <p>2003-10-12T02:39:00.000+02:00</p> Reporter Declan McCullagh of C|net news.com received a letter from the FBI on sep. 19, telling him to archive any material about "the homeless hacker", of which I know little about. It interesting though, because only ISP's are under this obligation to a federal entity, like in most other countries including Norway, where I live. Doesn't the FBI have any scrouples? It looks up this law, where </article> <article> <h1>The Opera Platform</h1> <p>2003-10-10T23:25:00.000+02:00</p> We've seen how Opera can be used to vertically display any website on your mobile. - Opera today announced it's "Opera Platform", where they say standard Web-lingua is the essence to making it interoperate with other apps. Introducing the Opera Platform: " [...] By using the widely available talent pool knowledgable in Web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and DOM, all contents can be </article> <article> <h1>Opera 7.21 Weekend edition</h1> <p>2003-10-10T17:32:00.000+02:00</p> ...aka RC5 Changelog: Fix for aggressive content guessing when MIME type is unreliable (if setting is chosen in Preferences). ISO files and others got extension WBMP and were loaded inline as if they were images. Content guessing is turned off for BMP, WBMP, XBM, ICO. </article> <article> <h1>Non sequitur</h1> <p>2003-10-10T00:59:00.000+02:00</p> I learned a new english phrase today. "non sequitur". According to Websters Unabridged, it means: \Non seq"ui*tur\ [L., it does not follow.] (Logic) An inference which does not follow from the premises. So how did I learn that? The allmighty salon.com ran an article about this amusing war of phonecalls in the US of A, where Republican party folks, and FOx and NY Post news-crew are in an open </article> <article> <h1>Opera 7.21 RC4</h1> <p>2003-10-09T22:42:00.000+02:00</p> ...released Fix for:Opera crashes on zoom + back and forth </article> <article> <h1>100MB free webmail</h1> <p>2003-10-09T01:34:00.000+02:00</p> Until recently (today in fact), I thought the only good free webmail was gone. I used to use runbox, a Norwegian provider for my mail, because it provided it's users with as much as 100MB of storage, and every access-option you could name, including imap and wap. But, runbox had to catch up with reality and start charging a small fee for it's services. Today, while I don't really remember </article> <article> <h1>Opera 7.21 RC3</h1> <p>2003-10-08T23:04:00.000+02:00</p> ...released. More mime-type tweaking Fixed crashes when adding a bookmark containing illegal characters in nickname. </article> <article> <h1>Opera 7.21 RC2</h1> <p>2003-10-08T17:56:00.000+02:00</p> Opera 7.21 RC2 has been released, few bug-fixes this time too, and only a two-step increase in build-number, from 3211 to 3213. Changelog: Fix for .lng files etc were saved as .txt (Comment: Caused by mime-type text/plain. Mime-types seem to have undergone some major changes, and in it's trail, some things went wrong..) Fix for some webpages being cached as .tmp instead of .htm </article> <article> <h1>1000% more internet!</h1> <p>2003-10-07T23:26:00.000+02:00</p> Optimus, the first telecoms operator to ship it's phones with the Opera browser, has had an increase in network traffic of 416% since it first started shipping the phones. 1000? Yes, because only a tiny percentage of Optimus' subscribers have Opera on their phones. Why so much? Opera has SSR, letting you surf the entire internet on your mobile. I didn't try it on a phone yet, but you can </article> <article> <h1>Sitefinder.com banned, communism prevailis</h1> <p>2003-10-07T20:43:00.000+02:00</p> The Berkman Center for Internet & Society has released an interesting study of how the illegal sitefinder.com service of Verisign was blocked by ISP's as they discovered it's negative effects. Verisign has by now shut it down itself, although "just temporarily". When Versisign are asked to comment on it, and how ICANN, the Internet authority so to speak, asked it to roll back, they make it </article> <article> <h1>New IE, now with questions</h1> <p>2003-10-07T19:16:00.000+02:00</p> Microsoft has now detailed how it will 'abide' to the ruling in the plugin-case, filed by Eolas. As expected, the main change is to display a popup box every time a user invokes an external ActiveX control or Java applet. </article> <article> <h1>FBI paid Hamas</h1> <p>2003-10-07T18:36:00.000+02:00</p> IN a strange twist, it has been uncovered that in 1998-99, the FBI tried to funnel 'smaller' ammounts of cash through charity organizations to Hamas and possibly other organizations resisting Israeli occupation using illegal methods. The theory was as such: We give money to people we suspect are connected to terrorist activity, then try to follow the trail of money. "Yeah, lets pay them </article> <article> <h1>First visitor!</h1> <p>2003-10-07T03:57:00.000+02:00</p> I've gotten the first visitor I know about! And not just any visitor either! - Can you spell DIA? Jup, thats right, someone from the US Defence Intelligence Agency paid me a visit. hmmm... Echelon? </article> <article> <h1>Israel attacks the UN</h1> <p>2003-10-07T01:47:00.000+02:00</p> Gawd. When are they going to stop? The day before yesterday I said they were probably gonna call the UN a terrorist if the US weren't a member, and today they shot at one of the UN's water supply-trucks. Is this a deliberate provocation from the Israeli government, or is it an ironic repeat of Ariel Sharon denying orders when he was a general? US' attitude towards Israel may be dripping on </article> <article> <h1>Airbag harddrive</h1> <p>2003-10-07T00:58:00.000+02:00</p> IBM has relased ne notebooks, which contain a new technology they call APS, Active protection system. It consists, they say, of a microchip that senses acceleration, which in turn freezes the drives' head movement. The IBM's pressfolks use this analogy: the airbag in your car. I'd say it compares more to the servo-steering in the same car. - Or the servo that is used to detect </article> <article> <h1>Opera 7.21 RC1</h1> <p>2003-10-06T18:21:00.000+02:00</p> Opera 7.21 RC1 for windows released. Changlog: Fixed crash when pressing "." in transfers window Added mimetype application/x-msdos-program with same extensions as application/x-msdownload. </article> <article> <h1>Hasty meeting in the UN</h1> <p>2003-10-06T01:04:00.001+02:00</p> The UN security council has gathered to discuss Israels blasting of what appears to be an abandoned PFLP - General Command camp in Syria. According to an [official] anonymous source, the camp is today generally nothing but a refuge to Palestinians. The meeting, called upon by Syria, was wittily compared to by the Israeli delegation as, "If Usama bin Laden should have called upon the UN after </article> <article> <h1>Israel attacks in Syria</h1> <p>2003-10-05T14:54:00.000+02:00</p> Israel has attacked what it calls a "terrorist" training camp in Syria, as a retaliation to the recent blasting of civilians in the town of Haifa. They continue to blame Arafat, the elected Palestinian leader for all attacks on Israeli civilians, even though both he and every official around him denounce such attacks. Further attacks in Syria may come, Israel said, claiming self-defence. </article> <article> <h1>Israel plans more settlement building</h1> <p>2003-10-04T17:59:00.000+02:00</p> More buildings are planned for the Jewish (make that Israeli) settlements in the West bank. This is a direct violation of the Roadmap to Peace, which was reluctantly accepted by Israel. The US says it has concerns about this. What's the point of a roadmap if one party to it is allowed to breach it without more reaction than we are concerned? (Granted, concern here means concider US loan </article> <article> <h1>Opera 7.21 Preview 2</h1> <p>2003-10-04T16:05:00.000+02:00</p> After an intensive beta-testing preiod before releasing Opera 7.20, a new version is in the baking. 7.21 has gotten it's Preview number two. Preview 1 has the most important bug-fixes. So why this hurry? 7.20 was releasaed just weeks ago! - In one word: Security. Opera uses parts of the OpenSSL library, and as you may have noticed, a few security flaws have been found in it lately. As </article> <article> <h1>BlogThis! from Opera's Hotlist</h1> <p>2003-10-03T15:46:00.000+02:00</p> Jup, blogthis! is very well suited for the Opera hotlist. Only problem is, after posting somthing, you're expected to close the window (which isn't a window, it's a panel :), eg, you're taken to a page which only has the options Edit posts, View blog and Close window.That makes it kinda useless. But wait! Proxomitron?! I loove proxo, and made a filter which will meta refresh that useless </article> <article> <h1>Welcome</h1> <p>2003-07-03T07:39:00.000+02:00</p> Well, well... My blog! Little here yet, but I think I'll manage to put some fun (read interresting) stuff here soon. </article> </main></body></html>