The World of a Penguin

Looking at Googles demo of Wave . It is impressing and my imagination fly and demonstrates solutions to some of my everyday problems like entering an e-mail conversation late, mixing mail and chat etc. Wave will be the next or second to next big thing on the Net. I also looking forward to integration with my Ubuntu Gnome-desktop.

I have, like most of us, a lot of documents that can be hard to find. The folder system is not god enough. Some documents like those that is about the economy related to my house. I want to put them in two folders; the house folder and the economy folder. Of course, it can be done by links but it is not a good solution. I have for a long time thought about getting my own document management system. Unfortunately I haven't really understand what I wanted. Now I think I know, I want Paperbox .

Note to self: Before start threading a Python GTK-program call gtk.gdk.threads_init() otherwise will strange thing happen. The call must be done before gtk.main().

Donkey, my new computer , is up and running with Ubuntu Hardy Heron. The computer is named Donkey. Everything seems working soothly and fine. The computer is fast. I am now able to run Compiz for the first time. The new Gnome gives a fresh new feeling. The only bad thing in the Ubuntu beta is that some of my firefox-plugins does not work, yet. I have done some optimization of the memory settings in bios. According to memtest gave it about 4% of performance boost.

As all of you may already be aware of, Nokia want to acquire Trolltech . The Norwegian company Trolltech are behind Qt-toolkit, which is used for KDE, and the mobile platform Qtopia . My big question is what this will mean for Linux on mobile phones? Will Nokia start shipping Linux-phones? Is this a response to Googles Android -platform? Nokias Internet-tablets N770, N800, and N810 uses Gtk/Gnome as their toolkit. Will Nokia continue to be involved in Gnome? What will this mean for the Maemo community, which is the platform for the tablets? A lot of questions, and only time can tell the answers.

I have now walked throw all sites where I had the same password and changed them to individual passwords. Yes I know I had been a bad boy using the same password on several places. At the same time I changed password for some systems where the password was pretty old. To remember my passwords I use Revelation and the complementary Revelation Gnome Taskbar app to make it easy to get a password when I need it. What I miss with Revelation is a Java application for my mobile phone which I can sync my passwords to from my Ubuntu laptop.

The only complain I have had against Goggles GMail have been that it did not support the IMAP protocol. Now it does! And it works great together with Evolution. Thank you Google!

As I wrote a few hours ago it would be nice to be able to have a keyboard shortcut to enable/disable the touchpad. So when I started eat a chocolate cake I decided to fix the problem for Ubuntu and MSI S271. It should work in most GNOME-based Linux distributions and for most touchpads. First I wrote a script to toggle the touchpad ( download here ): #!/bin/bash if lsmod | grep "^psmouse " > /dev/null ; then /usr/bin/sudo /sbin/rmmod psmouse ; else /usr/bin/sudo /sbin/modprobe psmouse ; fi No rocket science here. Put the script some where on your harddrive, like /usr/local/bin. Add the following line in the end of your /etc/sudoers file: ALL ALL=(ALL)NOPASSWD: /sbin/rmmod psmouse, /sbin/modprobe psmouse This gives all users the right to enable and disable the touchpad. Register your the script as a keybinding command in gconf: gconftool-2 -t str --set /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_1 "/usr/local/bin/toggle-tp.sh" Register in the same way...