Tag archive 'Software'

Skype whirls me in…again

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-11-14

Only three weeks after I decided to ditch Skype they start whirling me back in again. By releasing the Skype Phone and 2.0 beta for Linux with webcam support.

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When I can tell my mother

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-07-13

The long anticipated year of the Linux desktop will come the day I can recommend it to my mother. The Linux desktop is not ready until I can look my own mother in the eye and tell her you can do it! As of today, I cannot. I know that if she installed Linux today; she would not understand too much of it, and I would be called in as her support advisor.

Linux needs to be more friendly to all the mothers around the world.
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Fixing XMPP in iChat

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-07-12

Apple's instant messenger application iChat–that comes with Mac OS–supports the XMPP protocol (Jabber).

However iChat does not support XMPP-IM URIs. URIs are how you trigger applications to do things on your computer like triggering a chat sessions by following web links. This is easy to fix.
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Conclusion

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-07-04

Linux sucks. But everything else is worse. This is my conclusion after using Mac OS, Windows, and KDE on the same day. Computing in general is a tiresome affair.
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