http://olmweb.com The Musings of an Olm Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:40:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a while (as usual). I'm quite impulsive which is reflected in everything I do, including this blogging stuff. One of the many things I've been doing this summer (besides working) has been learning the trade of HDR (or sometimes HDRI) photography, which is what I want to talk about ... http://olmweb.com/hdr/ Hey! If the page is looking strange you're in luck. Because most times it doesn't show up at all! Thanks a lot to my not-so-great host who won't give me enough fucking PHP memory bandwith I've had to revert to this terrible layout! The reason for that is that I've upgraded ... http://olmweb.com/upside-down-boy-you-turn-me/ Hello y'all! Greetings from sunny Hanko where I'm chilling this summer. Well... not chilling enough it seems - since I'm back with the latest version of Cate. This time we're talking Cate 2.2 and although there's not a whole lot of new stuff in here, I've been addressing a lot ... http://olmweb.com/cate-22/ Well it's official then - and thank the lords for that. Dell is going to start selling computers with Ubuntu preinstalled. Both the Dimension and XPS desktop lineup as well as the Inspiron laptops are going to receive the Ubuntu treatment. The computers will be sold via Dell's web site, said ... http://olmweb.com/dell-ubuntu-true/ Sorry if the website is acting up today. That last article I wrote, a half serious review on Ubuntu 7.04 got me 15 000 hits in one night, something my host obviously can't handle! I never could imagine I'd get this kind of response, nor that people actually could care ... http://olmweb.com/aboutpost/ Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) arrived just a few days ago with promises of better hardware compatibility, included proprietary software and drivers, and more user friendliness. Was it worth the wait? And more importantly - Is it finally time to "Make the Switch"? Read my review of Ubuntu 7.04 to find ... http://olmweb.com/ubuntu-704-time-to-switch/ Apart from learningto play the harmonica, this is what I've been doing for the last few days: continuing development on Cate and I'd like to announce that version 2.1 is now ready. What is Cate? Cate is a free customer database system using PHP+mySQL. It's for storing customer information and providing customers with ... http://olmweb.com/cate-21/ Vista is here, we all knew that. I was even thinking about buying it but then I read about Microsofts license policys which are outrageous! I can't believe we customers are just going to swallow that kind of treatment! So I decided to stick it to the man. Of course, sticking ... http://olmweb.com/vistas-120-days-of-grace/ Seems like I'm headed for the Glastonbury Festival 2007 in the UK June 22-24. See you all there :P http://olmweb.com/glastonbury-festival-2007/ [googlevideo]-6164809897767438853[/googlevideo] One would think that all this fancy modern technology we have today would not only bring crappy webcam videos on YouTube to the people, but also say, make rigging elections and cheating in politics more difficult? Most major software companies today put millions on making computing safer and fiddling with ... http://olmweb.com/great-election-riggings-in-the-21st-century/