Google bug?

January 30, 2009
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Try these Google searches:

basket “peter.jaric”
basket +”peter.jaric”

They return different results, and number 2, the one with a plus sign, returns a lot more. Why is that?
Note that these two searches don’t differ:

basket “peter jaric”
basket +”peter jaric”

So there is some problem when using a dot instead of a space. The dot seems to cancel the + [...]

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welcometotheåf

January 29, 2009
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About one year ago the Swedish consulting company ÅF launched a web competition called welcometothewall. On somewhat dubious grounds I was selected as one of the 5 winners. In december ÅF launched the followup, called welcometothelist (or the list, for short). It was originally hosted at www.welcometothelist.com but has, after completion, been moved here.
I [...]

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Ripping sound from closed applications to files with reasonably good names

January 28, 2009
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The idea
Some applications that play sound do not allow the user to save those sounds for later listening. However, it is possible to tap into the audio playing through the sound card and record it to file (see here and here). This is one way to do what generally is called “ripping”.
Sometimes it is [...]

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Full screen flicker in VirtualBox (VBoxGtk)

January 23, 2009
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I am running Windows XP in VirtualBox on Ubuntu. Tonight when I tried to make it go into full screen (with Host+F) it just flickered and went back into a maximized window with all kinds of problems (the bottom part was covered by the Gnome panel, the mouse pointer was displaced at various points, et [...]

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Maximizing windows in Mac OS X

January 20, 2009
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Since December I am a Linux-only user at home, but previously I had a mac. One of my main problems was that it was up to the applications if it would be possible to maximize their windows. There is a zoom button on every window, but the point of that button is not to maximize [...]

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Modules in Javascript

January 20, 2009
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JavaScript does not have modules builtin, but since it is such an open language, it is possible for the developer to create a custom module system. Looking around on the web, it is soon obvious that there are several ways to do this. Here I will present that path I have taken. I have chosen [...]

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Get rid of bad Wordpress code formatting

January 19, 2009
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While editing the previous post I had various problems with the formatting of the command line. Some googling led me to the file /wp-includes/formatting.php where a lot of replacements are done. Edit the function wptexturize to get rid of some bad stuff (for example, I don’t want WP to replace double dashes (–) with [...]

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Running the Gimp in one window with Xephyr

January 19, 2009
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Using the Gimp I always become so frustrated with its multi-window concept. I am used to Photoshop in Windows and would like the Gimp to work the same way.
At the Xubuntu Blog I found the solution. It involves running the X server Xnest in a window and then run Gimp on that server’s display. For [...]

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