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Christian Decker — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:16:43 +0000

I’m a huge fan of Broadcatching because it allows me to catch up with the latest news and watch my favorite shows when I got time, and not when they are scheduled, and a nice side effect is that I don’t need to own a TV. When I wanted to find out if there is something [...]

Distro-Upgrading from openSuSE 11.1 to 11.2

Christian Decker — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:58:51 +0000

One of the features I always envied the Ubuntu people for is the ability to do a distro upgrade without tearing down my whole system and doing the CD-Dance. While that may still be needed from time to time to ensure a nice and compact system, it is just incredibly time consuming. With the latest version [...]

Getting Chrome OS to run under VirtualBox

Christian Decker — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:05:29 +0000

You are eager to try out Chrome OS but don’t want to install it on your productive system? Well there is a great VMWare Virtual Appliance compiled by Mark Renouf. But what if you prefer VirtualBox over VMWare? That was my point exactly so here is what I did to get the image to run under [...]

Disable OpenID in Mozilla Weave

Christian Decker — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:38:56 +0000

I’ve been using Mozilla Weave for quite some time now, ever since I made the switch from Foxmarks. This is a Firefox extension that allows one to synchronize browser settings, including tabs, history, extensions, and passwords. Another feature of this extension is OpenID integration using Mozilla’s OpenID provider. The problem is that the OpenID integration [...]

Apple = Ikea ?

Christian Decker — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:51:24 +0000

Apple is a hardware manufacturer much like Ikea. Both have some fantastic and stylish products. But I would never let Ikea tell me what chairs may or may not be used with my new table…