Montly archive for 2008-04

Keeping an eye on the cookiejar

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-04-30

Konqueror is excellent for monitoring what cookies different websites store on the computer. Blocking various identification cookies is an excellent way of enforcing privacy and speeding up web surfing.

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Fixing KNetworkManager in Debian

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-04-24

KNetworkManager, KDE’s front‐end to network-manager, requires to be run as root to operate the network interfaces. Sounds like a familiar problem? The solution is to add the user running KNetworkManager to the netdev group using a tool such as KUser.

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Note to self

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-04-24

Check for local power outage before calling consumer support calming your external harddrive will not start. PS: I just proved this joke/myth can indeed happen to anyone!

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Interface concept: Collapsing menu line

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-04-19

Windows puts the menu line right underneath the title line at the top of every window. (See illustration 1.) Mac OS puts it at the very top for the active window. (See illustration 2.) KDE lets the user choose from one of the two. All desktop environments gives the not-so-frequently-used menu line much importance in their interfaces. But does the menu line really need all that dedicated space? Maybe it is time to think different.

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