Av og til...

...er det best med åpen kildekode programvare.

Ikke nødvendigvis fordi det er så mye bedre, men fordi det som regel tilbyr alternativer der andre programvarer tilbyr ultimatum.

Noen eks.:

• "Windows Live Messenger" tillater å koble til "Live Messaging".
• "AOL" tilbyr å koble til "AOL Messaging".
• "mIRC" tilbyr å koble til "IRC".

Benytter man programmet "Pidgin", er dette problemet en saga blott.

Pidgin er et såkalt "modulært chat rammeverk", som betyr at programmet ikke er dedikert en spesiell chatte-protokoll / -tjeneste / -nettverk, man kan bruke de man har konto i, alt i ett program!

Pidgin tillater til og med å koble opp mot chatte-tjenestene til Facebook og MySpace!

Man kan til og med tilegne logoer for kontakter i spesifiserte chat-nettverk / -protokoller, og sortere dem etter nettopp: nettverket eller protokollen. Eller man kan bare opprette grupper i chatlisten og sortere etter det man vil sortere etter selv.

Som eks. sorterer jeg chat-kontaktene mine etter bosted, og har protokoll-ikon ved siden av hver kontakt.Jeg bruker selv Pidgin på min netbook (Asus Eee 900 PC, Easy Peasy v1.5), min mors kontor-PC (Cybercom-merket Acer desktop, Ubuntu Linux 9.10) og jobb-maskinen min (Windows XP).

Vil du innstallere og bruke Pidgin selv, kan du hente ned installasjonsfilene under:

• Pidgin
• Pidgin Facebookchat plugin

Spotify banker iTunes :P

Harrharrharr! :P Me like ;D

Link:

http://www.hardware.no/artikler/spotify_banker_itunes/71258

As easy as Ubuntu

Ok, I'll have to admit.., I refused for quite some time to take Ubuntu Linux for a serious test-drive due to bad experiences with the distro while it was in it's alfa and beta-stages. But since then, Ubuntu has come a looooooong way. So, I decided I'd take Ubuntu 9.04 for a spin.

It's still kind of bleeding edge with regards to compositing and visual effects, but they do work out-of-the-box. And hey, if things work...why fix them? On compositing and the like, I consider compiz as an extraordinary piece of rendering-code, but I also think it's too unstable for everyday production-use.

Ubuntu's UI has undergone major modifications to better suit it's userbase requirements, and I like it :)

Ubuntu's updating and upgrading facilities have also been much improved, with the addition of a scanning-tool to determine if you have hardware-components that has alternative proprietary drivers available, and lets you activate them with simple mouseclicks.

Easy Peasy v1.5 (formerly Ubuntu Netbook Remix) is a distribution developed with netbooks and net-tops in mind.

Focused on low-power consumption and simple apps for simple tasks, it's actually a rather comprehensive collection of software compared to many other netbook-flavours.

Lightning fast and with an intuitive and stylish interface, it does what it sets out to do, and more!

My Asus Eee 900 netbook had Xandros installed by default, but this distro did not let me do the things I usually do on a Linux-workstation, like: programming, compiling, scripting, etc.

In addition to be very restrictive, it was also heavily modified from it's Debian codebase, and was thus very hard to customize and proved a challenge in adding new and unusual software to.