Tag Archive: computer
Plugin for spreadsheets
Currently fiddling a lot with CSV files on Linux servers (read: working on MOOC using Google’s course-builder software) and it can be a bit painful editing the cells. I had a quick look around regarding command-line based spreadsheet editors. Man,…
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It was looking so good!
But in the last minute, it all turned to custard. What am I talking about? Software patents. For a long time, the revised bill, which excluded software patents explicitly, seemed to be on ice. People in the software industry getting…
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Fakebook gets everyone
Even people that don’t want to be on it. Just read a post on Slashdot, that mentions this article on tagesspiegel.de. Having no Fakebook profile and not spilling your guts online is apparently a sign of not being quite right…
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“Open” for software
I’ve started a little portfolio of open source projects that I either contribute to or developed myself. Will be adding more, as time goes by. 🙂 http://open.fracpete.de/
Steve Jobs has died
It shouldn’t have been a surprise, but then it did surprise nonetheless: Steve Jobs has died. I mean, he’s been sick for a long time now and signing off as CEO of Apple was an indicator. But he’s been around…
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Giving Oracle the boot
I had a bad feeling when Oracle bought Sun back then in regards to MySQL. But considering how they behaved in regards to OpenOffice and their community ([1], [2]), I decided to give Oracle the boot and switch from OpenOffice…
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Back in the game!
After it took quite a while for Kepler to release a new version (2.0 on June 30th), it took me also quite a while of getting my a in g to move to a completely new build mechanism. But hey!…
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Back in the days
I just came across an article about one of the first digital cameras. Pretty cool hack, I have to say. Mr. Sasson, the inventor, concluded the first presentation of this new technology with the words “substantially impact the way pictures…
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