Installing LyX (LaTeX) on Windows Vista
So inspired by this blog post (German) and the therein linked, not uninsightful comment about how stupid Office text processing (and how awesome LaTeX) is, and generally being a friend of OSS, I decided to jump the gun and install something to that end.
Now, looking for reasonable GUIs (because I’m just too old to hack [...]
Stack Overflow: Solutions for Coders
If you’re a programmer, you know the problem of solution googlability. It’s particularly prominent in mainstream languages (and one of the things I decried in my What’s Wrong with VBA series, as VBA is particularly bad in that respect); you have a problem, you google for it, unless you’re coding in a good awesome well-designed [...]
WordPress Updated, Plugin List
So I just did my first WordPress update to 2.6.2, 2.6.1 had a security hole. It went remarkably smooth, considering the horror stores I read (link German, click the links in that post for more) – as a matter of fact, everything seems to work as it should again.
I’ll take this opportunity to list all [...]
Google Chrome Roundup
Here goes the second round of my Google Chrome review, mainly consisting of links to news and discussions.
Chrome Phone Home
Maybe you heard (I hear it was even on TV?) that Chrome loves E.T. and likes to phone home. Yes, it does, but not that much more so than other browsers: Google’s Matt Cutts has the [...]
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is what must be the most written-about browser, ever – it’s hard not to write about it in your blog, peer pressure and all. Announced just Monday, and in blogs and big media alike from the moment it started.
It is special though, admittedly, has several unique approaches that make checking it out definitely [...]
Circumventing Google’s Monopoly
I just wrote this as a comment as an answer to a post on Meinungsfreiheit.li about the Google monopoly – and I think it might fit here too. His point was that Google is collecting data from everywhere, about everyone, and while that’s well-known for some time, there are working countermeasures too.
The Problem
A better title [...]
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