The Java Hacker – Peter Jaric's Blog
In newer versions of Ubuntu (and Linuxes) xscreensaver has been replaced with gnome-screensaver. The same screensavers are supported (with some exceptions, I guess), but there is one thing that is lacking: per-screensaver configuration. The author of gnome-screensaver thinks that this […]
I use Mozilla Thunderbird exclusively as my email client. One feature Thunderbird offers is Saved Searchs. I use it to create a virtual folder “Unread Mail” that shows all my unread mail that is not junk. To do this I […]
If you’re playing Scrabble in Swedish with your friends, you will get invaluable help from my friend Jonatan‘s new web application: ordlista.org. There you can check whether a word is valid when playing Scrabble, or just browse through words for […]
We have got a new cell phone operator at work and one of their features is that if you prefix a number with the code *150# the call will be charged to a separate bill that will be sent to […]
Recently Google announced that they have acquired Aardvark, a service that finds the right person to answer any question you might have. I’ve used it frequently for a little while, and while I think it is a very cool idea […]
Today I used the “selector1, selector2, selectorN” selector in jQuery and was confused that, in some cases, when looping over the results I got them in the order of the selectors and not in the order of the elements in […]
I have been working with the CMS InfoGlue for a while now and one thing that has been seriously lacking is a large community. To help beginning to build the foundation of a community, I have been pushing for a […]
My friend Jonatan and his friend Robert released their new site EnBil.nu yesterday! It aggregates most of Sweden’s car rental sites into one easy-to-use site. With their own words (in Swedish): Vår förhoppning är att EnBil.nu ska vara den bästa […]
I have had an Acer Aspire One netbook (AA1) for a while and recently I decided to throw out the bundled Linpus OS and install a more flexible Linux. Linpus has served me quite well, but it has some shortcomings […]
I’ve got a new job! From late May I will be working at Uppsala University in the central software development unit. Uppsala University has launched a project aiming to bring most of the diverse university web sites into one platform. […]