Month: November 2010
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Ubuntu to abandon X11 – The H Open Source: News and Features
Ubuntu to abandon X11 – The H Open Source: News and Features
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Oracle plans to offer a commercial Java Virtual Machine – The H Open Source: News and Features
Oracle plans to offer a commercial Java Virtual Machine – The H Open Source: News and Features
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Flipper (American television program, that aired on NBC from 1964 to 1967)
Flipper (1964 TV series) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Skippy, the bush kangaroo (Australian television series for children)
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Skype 5.0.0.6378 on Mac OS X – how do I get rid of the photos?
Skype-5 on the Mac looks quite nice, but I don’t like the contact photo, that I cannot suppress / hide. Am I just to dull to find the right switch or is there no such switch? Looks like they will make the switch available with the next release, that’s what they promised at least for…
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Rooibos (tea) – en.Wikipedia.org
Rooibos – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia … The plant is used to make a herbal tea called rooibos tea, bush tea (esp. Southern Africa), redbush tea (esp. UK), South African red tea, or red tea. The product has been popular in Southern Africa for generations and is now consumed in many countries. It is sometimes…
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TEI = Text Encoding Initiative – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Text Encoding Initiative – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia … TEI is now the de facto standard for the encoding of electronic texts in the humanities academic community … … The Guidelines define some 500 different textual components and concepts, which can be expressed using a markup language and defined by a DTD or XML schema.…
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Contacts Manager within my Google Apps domain and contact picture
It looses its pictures, it doesn’t accept new ones, it doesn’t show an error message, it’s weird and somehow broken. When I searched for this problem picture recently, I wasn’t able to find other descriptions than mine. When I “Add a picture”, it let’s me proceed, but finally after I want to “Apply Changes”, nothing…
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created my personal calendar 2011
Ran a couple of home-brewed perl scripts. After I ran them last year I started coding my $HOME/diary in UTF-8, and obviously my scripts don’t deal too well with UTF-8, they were written for Latin-1, but luckily enough (and that’s the major advantage of UTF-8!) they don’t break badly enough. “Of course” there is no…