Category Archives: Tech
WordPress does LaTeX
While I was setting up another wordpress site today, I found out to my great surprise that WordPress can actually do markup by simply installing the jetpack plugin. For those that don’t know, is a computer typesetting system that really … Continue reading
Posted in Stuff, Tech
Tagged computer, computer typesetting, latex, mathematical formulas, microsoft, microsoft word, TeX, typesetting system
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Battery Centre needs the Battery University
About two and a half years ago Battery Centre sold me me a silver calcium battery for my car. According to them silver calcium batteries are the best thing in lead acid battery technology since Gaston Planté made the first … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Tech, Stuff, Tech
Tagged batteries, battery, car, lead acid, silver calcium, techie, technology
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The internet is a scary place!
If you are an IT professional providing customers with Internet connectivity solutions you know that the internet is a scary place. Back in the dark ages (before 1993) when things started out everyone using the internet trusted each other. Unfortunately … Continue reading
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Tagged e-mail, glug, internet, internet connectivity solutions, linux, linux users group, local network, luser, mail, mail list, man in the middle attack, network, software, Tech, website, windows
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Will they ever learn?
The big media companies and their cronies are getting more and more desperate to try save their totally outdated business model. Modern computers make it ridiculously easy and cheap to copy and distribute any media. The media companies are however … Continue reading
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Tagged bittorrent, blog, business model, commercialise, computer, creative commons licenses, decent money, downloaders, e-mail, free art, internet, jamendo, mail, musicians, network, ogg vorbis, pirate bay, share, Tech, three strikes laws, unauthorised copies, war
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Whatsup! – There is another decent mail client on the block
I have written about my favourite mail client Mutt before and still consider it the best around. There is another contender around that I heard about on the linux-elitist mailing list. It is also console based and is called “Sup” … Continue reading
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Tagged e-mail, IMAP, imap mailboxes, imap server, linux, Mac, Mac OS, mail, mail client, mail clients, mail source, Mutt, Ruby, sup
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