Author Archives: Serge van Ginderachter

Firefox WGA plugin

| Friday, 13 January, 2006

Seems like Microsoft is willing to make some efforts for their Windows Genuine Advantage checks. They now provide a Firefox plugin: Interesting evolution…

Burned CDs Last 5 years Max — Use Tape?

| Wednesday, 11 January, 2006

Slashdot has this article on archiving, on which subject I already had my thoughts. As always, the nice info is to be found in the comments. Alioth pretty much sums it up for me in his comment, when he suspects that the late 20th century and early 21st century will become a mini-dark ages (at […]

Intel Powerbooks Available!

| Tuesday, 10 January, 2006

Am I the first to get this link updated? – at least amongst the feeds in my google news 🙂 http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/ Quote: You’ve dreamed about it long enough. Now it has a name: MacBook Pro. Powered by a dual-core Intel engine. Up to four times the speed of the PowerBook G4. Eight times the graphics […]

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Interessante discussies op bcol

| Friday, 6 January, 2006

Ligt het aan deze vakantieperiode, de Kerstsfeer, of de solden, ik weet het niet. Maar de laatste tijd zijn er veel boeiende discussies op bcol. We hadden reeds enkele leuke discussies, zoals eentje die degenereerde over usability. Een KDE tegenover Gnome, die voor een keer niet uitmonde in een typische flamewar mocht ook niet missen. […]

Is Gnome usability usable enough?

| Monday, 2 January, 2006

It seems, here again, something is missing. At least when I’m not trying to understand, which seems to be what it takes to understand Gnome. I think. I got this nagging pop-up when posting something on Usenet, by means of Pan. I really couldn’t notice any special character on line 1. I’m not sure which […]