Montly archive for 2007-01

Reasons to try KDE

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-01-25

KDE logo My number one reason to give KDE another try at the moment is that it is based on Norwegian technology.

You might call that a little nationalistic, but there are other reasons as well:
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Online privacy, a joke?

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-01-25

More and more frequently we learn about companies, mostly digital content providers and hardware manufactures, trying to gain control over as much as possible about out computing and consumption habits. Digital rights management is a well know phenomenon which is designed to limit consumers rights with their own, purchased media. Having spy software that track every keystroke you make and forwards a copy of every email you receive to an unknown, third party…

These are all things we are aware of and are struggling to battle every day. But what about the enemies within? Are they not the ones we really should fear?
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Note regarding spam comments

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-01-21

Just a quick note regarding the problem of comment spam in blogs (and everywhere else):

The site uses the Askimet WordPress plug-in to fight off spam. If your comment is incorrectly identified as spam it make take a few days before I get to it and can pull it out of the filtering system.
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Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-01-20

I have used OGG Vorbis from the Xiph.Org Foundation for some time now. I have fallen in love with the high quality and good compression that the Vorbis codec provides.

Now I am looking into OGG FLAC, a free lossless codec from the same foundation.
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