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15Aug/100

Time machine for Linux

Of course we all know that Apple just simply took Rsync, created a fun GUI and called it a awesome new product; Time Machine. Well this weekend it was time for me to create the same product but then on a Linux kind a way. If your not a commandline warrior, don't worry, i'll explain the script.

12Jul/100

Xen Cloud Platform 0.5 released!

I've been using XCP (Xen Cloud Platform) for a while now in a semi production environment and i was very happy with how it was working. But it was still alpha software and the developers didn't give it there stamp of approval.

12Jul/101

Spotify for Linux

The last couple of weeks i was using Spotify at home on my Mac. At the office i was running Spotify in Wine and of course on my Android device i could also run Spotify. But it bothered me that there was no native Linux version. Well today this has changed. Spotify announced the Linux version and at this moment there is only a Debian/Ubuntu repo (that means updates right from Spotify).

30May/100

How To: Gmail as default mail client Ubuntu

If you press on a e-mail address on the internet it will open your default e-mail client. This is fine and handy but not if you are a Gmail user like myself.

20Mar/100

The future of Ubuntu

The last couple of weeks, a lot of people are falling over the new looks of Ubuntu. They don't like them or they don't like how the Ubuntu team is acting.

7Feb/100

Open Source

This weekend, i was at a event called Fosdem. I'm an open source fan as long as i've been using computers but this weekend something hit me. It's not just the software that makes me happy when i'm using open source software, for a big part it's the community around it.

19Jan/102

Evolution and exchange 2007

If you one of the lucky ones that ore allowed to use something like Ubuntu as an OS on there computer at work, but hate using your works webmail, or a virtual machine with Windows in it to just read your e-mail, please read on..