Monat: Februar 2011

  • Emacs: Saving buffer in different encoding

    So once again I had a file that I nee­ded to save in UTF8, becau­se the ori­gi­nal for­mat it came in was dif­fe­rent. And time and again, I had to cha­se down the appro­pria­te thing in the Emacs docu­men­ta­ti­on. So here is how to do it: C-x [RET] f CODING [RET] CODING is the coding for­mat;…

  • re:publica Widget

    As you can see from the side­bar, I’m going to re:publica 2011. As a con­ve­ni­ence to other Word­Press blog­gers, I’ve made a small wid­get to include the re:publica Ban­ner on your blog. You can down­load it from my blog. To install: Down­load re:publica XI Wid­get. Unzip and upload the con­tents to the direc­to­ry wp-content/plugins/ insi­de your…

  • European Software

    Rea­ding that the Ger­man For­eign Minis­try is about to chan­ge their com­pu­ting desk­tops back from a GNU/­Li­nux-based sys­tem to Micro­soft Win­dows and their Office offe­rings, a thing that has been on my mind for a while comes back again. I think it would be very wort­hwhile to start an initia­ti­ve to fos­ter euro­pean soft­ware; I think…

  • Nokia/Microsoft vs. …

    I get the very distinct impres­si­on that Micro­No­kia are not set­ting them­sel­ves up to com­pe­te against Apple, but much rather pri­ma­ri­ly against Google’s Android. Lar­ge­ly, this is becau­se again we’­re see­ing a split bet­ween hard­ware and soft­ware com­pa­nies. In split­ting apart tho­se kinds of deve­lo­p­ment, they are at a dis­ad­van­ta­ge to bring about the same…

  • Why IMAP is a good model for cloud services

    I do admit it: I like the IMAP pro­to­col. I regu­lar­ly use mul­ti­ple com­pu­ters and my iPho­ne, and I read and wri­te email on all of them. IMAP makes that con­ve­ni­ent: I have the same view of my fol­ders and my inbox on every com­pu­ter. We also use a Web­mail cli­ent that uses IMAP as…

  • Kaffeepadleserei.

    Aus­ge­hend von einer Twit­ter-Kon­ver­sa­ti­on, an der auch ich mich betei­ligt habe, ist bei Maxx­olu­ti­on ein Blog-Arti­kel ent­stan­den: die Kaf­fee-Fra­ge, Mei­nung erwünscht. Auch AIX­hi­bit betei­ligt sich auf deren Blog: Kaf­fee Fra­ge. Aus­ge­gan­gen war die Dis­kus­si­on ja davon, dass ich kein gros­ser Freund von Nes­pres­so bin; nicht zuletzt, weil das Kaf­fee­pul­ver pro Tas­se in einem der ener­gie­in­ten­sivs­ten…