Cross platform IM client InstantBird goes 1.0 – The H Open Source: News and Features
competition for Adium on OS X?
and for Pidgin of course
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Cross platform IM client InstantBird goes 1.0 – The H Open Source: News and Features
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online in a public transport bus in Berlin with a router in my pocket
I am amazed! No USB device sticking into the computer …
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4G-Systems XSBoxGO – UMTS WIFI router, battery driven
My new “away from home office” Internet access equipment. Certainly a lot more lightweight than an AVM FRITZ!Box 7390 or 7270, but it may do its job.
The specific requirement was “battery driven”. Outside (e.g. on a bus (yes!!!), in a customer’s office, in a friend’s living or sleeping room – wherever I feel tempted to do something over the Internet), I don’t want to deal with a UMTS USB stick attached to the notebook on my lap, instead I want to have the device anywhere in my bag or a pocket of my clothes, helping me without attracting other people’s attraction to a fancy or huge device.It’s so tiny, you can easily put it “somewhere” and forget, where you left it. For the time being I will keep it in my tiny iPod cloth pocket, so that it doesn’t catch a lot of scratches. Of course, I won’t necessarily use them together.
Update 2011-07-01
- Wearing it in operating in a pocket is not a good idea, it needs fresh air.
- Restarting through pressing a button does not always work, removing the battery always works.
Update 2011-08-04I tried to connect to it via WIFI again, and the SSID did not appear.I dug into it, and I found, that WIFI was disabled. After enabling it again, all was fine.I have no idea, how WIFI got disabled. That makes no sense to me. -
emacs: “output coding” – line endings
Output Coding – GNU Emacs Manual
I had an accounting file with DOS line endings, and I needed it with just 0xa (ASCII line feed).
I found this function for converting the line endings in GNU Emacs:
set-buffer-file-coding-system, used like this:
C-x RET f unix RET -
HTML “accesskey” vs. web browsers vs. platforms
- Firefox on Mac OS X: the ctrl key
- Chrome and Chromium on Mac OS X: the ctrl key and the alt key together (and set the mouse-pointer into the right pane!)
- Chrome and Chromium on Windows: the alt key