Category Archives: Technology

Java plugin in Firefox under Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Tormod Haugen

I needed to install a Java plugin for Firefox under Ubuntu 9.04 (beta). This didn’t happen by itself when I installed sun-java6-plugin, but a quick search showed me what Eirik Hoem found out a year ago. Or, as Karl Trygve … Continue reading →

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Skype on Acer Aspire One

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Tormod Haugen

Yesterday I installed Skype on my Acer Aspire One. I did it on the Linpus Lite Distro, and it was quick and painless. Everything I had read up until yesterday had prepared me for a difficult and time consuming task. … Continue reading →

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I got 1-up’d

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

Or something like that. For once someone told me to look it up on Google. It was a Linux query, and since I’m not that knowledgeable on Linux, I deferred it to my brother. He asked me if he should … Continue reading →

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Wireless trouble in Ubuntu

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

I’ve been doing something that I should have been doing a long time ago. As I haven’t been using my desktop much since my last hard disk crash, it has sported only a Windows XP install. Yesterday I set down … Continue reading →

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iTunes stole my podcasts

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

Starting my computer to sync my iPod this morning brought on instant Apple hatred. iTunes told me that my iTunes Library were damaged, and just like that my podcast subscriptions were gone. Pffft – not there any more. I then … Continue reading →

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Twitterdemics – my network grows

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

When I started using twitter for real, I set out to follow a small group, only following back if I deemed other persons interesting enough to read. This worked out rather nicely, I followed a few people, tweeted a bit, … Continue reading →

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Firefox not really default browser in Vista

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

I installed twhirl, to give it a twirl with twitter. First issue was that URLs opened in Internet Explorer, instead of in Firefox. A bit searching lead me to throk.net for a possible solution, but Mozilla Firefox doesn’t show up … Continue reading →

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Trouble with updated iTunes 7

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

Today I updated iTunes for Windows Vista to version 7.6.1.9. Upon completion iTunes crashed and did not start again. The error message I received was: iTunes cannot run because it has detected a problem with your audio configuration This was … Continue reading →

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OpenID; both sides of a story?

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

I wrote about OpenID a while ago, but it seems as if that might have been before this instance of my journal. The entry is probably lost in transit backup. Restoring the past is on my todo list. It is … Continue reading →

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FriendFeed is publicly launched

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Tormod Haugen

As I, for various reasons, quit Facebook, I’ve looked around for ways to share stuff, perhaps only with myself, on the web (woah, out of writing breath). Today I saw Paul Buchheit had announced FriendFeed open for the public, and … Continue reading →

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