Monat: Februar 2011
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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;…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…