Rediscovering microblogging

I, just now, am rediscovering the use of microblogging. I have looked at Twitter an microblogging in the past and found it unnecessary. I had an identi.ca account for some months now, but I did not use it very often. But I had the feeling that it could be useful.
I think it is. I have [...]

Pointer to DFD report

Ah and btw. as I organized the DFD in Kiel 2009 – here is the report.

Removed shutdown in Ubuntu Jauntys system menu

I have talked about this in my first impressions and now have found more about it:
See “Why missing shutdown and user logout menus in system menu with 9.04 Alpha 5?“:
“Yes, this is a stupid UI decision made by people in Ubuntu who haven’t thought about accessibility. Luckily, getting the menu options back is simply a matter [...]

First impressions of Ubuntu 9.04 beta

I have just updated to newest Ubuntu. Here are some points of interest:

Thes removed the shutdown option from system menu. You now HAVE to use the stupid applet. IS this a GNOME or an Ubuntu decision. Personally i dont like this applet for shutting down. I always used the system menu. The applet looks so [...]

Make movies free (Theora video)

As I wanted to (for the first time) convert an MP4 video to a patent free version with OGG Theora I found that the solutions is simple. There is a command line tool “ffmpeg2theora” for Unix systems. This is part of “OggConvert” and sure is available for many Unix based operating systems.
I started “GNU Screen” [...]

Another Online Desktop Idea

GNOME has its vision of what a online desktop should be. I have another. The idea is to find a replacement for:

VPN network access
XDMCP graphical logins
SSH logins
etc.

My idea – and I am sure I am not the only one having it is to have rather a local login to a desktop – but then be [...]

Stop button abolishment – a very bad idea

As far as I know it started with Apples iPod. To make things more “simple” it was decided that this box did not need a stop button. The open source world was excited about this decision and made similar things in many audio/video applications. Actually I think thats one of the worst decisions they could [...]