Archives for: January 2010
Red Bull Sparkstøtting Supercross
January 31st, 2010Yesterday Petter, Sverre and I went to see the Red Bull Sparkstøtting Supercross competition more »
Tractor fail
January 30th, 2010Found this clip while looking for tractor videos together with Anders, who loves Mummi and tractor videos[youtube]4dKmgHNRxbo&NR=1[/youtube] more »
Controlling the fan speed of my T60
January 28th, 2010Had some trouble with my Lenovo T60 becoming way to hot in the past. Not sure, but I guess it might have something to do with me having installed Ubuntu (Linux) on it. Here the other day it did in fact switch itself of because it was to hot, and when it… more »
Firefox 3.5.x - Pages goes blank when loading
January 28th, 2010A lot of cursing, but as always Google to the rescue, Shockwave Flash Plugin was the devil causing the problem. Just disable it and voila, back to normal. Solution found here www.computing.net/.../firefox-page-blanks-out-after-loading/.. more »
Web application to adjust the window blinds
January 28th, 2010Quite cool feature I must say. At our office building we can use a web application to manually override the window blinds. The TAC Vista ScreenMate...makes my day more »
Testing the Maven JMeter Plugin
January 27th, 2010Currently testing the Maven JMeter Plugin developed by Ron Alleva. Did some testing, but quite soon got an error like the one mentioned in the comments of his post2010/01/19 16:42:45 ERROR – jmeter.JMeter: java.lang.NullPointerExceptionat org.apa… more »
The Men Who Stare at Goats
January 25th, 2010Me, Espen and Loy saw The Men Who Stare at Goats this evening. Had some very funny moments I must say, really worth spending the time watching it on a Monday evening. We saw it at Ringen Kino, actually at Ringen Deluxe. Good seats, popcorn and soda inclu… more »
From Lindesnes to Nordkapp with bicycle
January 22nd, 2010Ok, the title being a bit misleading, I will not actually ride my bike from Lindesnes to Nordkapp, but to keep track of how much distance I have covered riding my bike back and forth from work I use that distance to compare with. more »
Commuting is hard for the equipment
January 21st, 2010Commuting with my bike has created the first system malfunction today. One of my barends broke when I applied to much pressure on it. Might have been caused by the accident I had last week in the parking house at Lysaker. more »
Cleaning up my backpack
January 21st, 2010Using an old backpack when using my bike to work. Opened one of the pockets and had a thorough look yesterday and found this document from the vacation me, Loy and Espen had in 2004. more »
Tractor fail and forest tending
January 17th, 2010Out at Vestreng this weekend, been out and doing forest tending and preparing for next winter, cutting down fire wood. Had a tractor fail on my way back one time. Not a hard thing to fix, just had to put in reverse more »
Installing VmWare-player on Ubuntu 9.10
January 15th, 2010Quite simple to install VmWare-player, just follow the guide available here http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-install-vmware-player-in-ubuntu-9-10. But note, if the installer hangs like it did for me, kill the installer (I did a reboot), then follow this ste… more »
How to get hold of the admin console
January 15th, 2010I thought I had created a blog post about this issue already, but was not able to find any information when I desperately needed to find the port number used to access the admin console of my local WAS installation. Anyhow, the trick is the file serverin… more »
Nice day for a bike ride - and cars collision
January 12th, 2010Pictures taken when I arrived at work this morning around eight o'clock. more »
Mount your cell phone in Linux
January 12th, 2010I found this guide on how to mount your cell phone, in my case a Nokia 6280. I got an error when I tried to run the command "sudo modprobe fuse", but it turned out that I could just skip it. Neath...! more »
I hit the ground
January 11th, 2010On my way home today I had an accidents with my bike. Out at Lysakerlokket the fastest way it through the parking house. At first there is a bit downhill with a sharp left turn at the more »
Can't get it all - Polar s725x and Linux not best friends
January 9th, 2010Have been struggling quite hard (at least on my level it was hard (Jackass på lavt nivå )) to enable my installation of Linux to read from my Polar 725x heart rate monitor but now I have raised the white flag. Since I'm not a c-programmer or a hardcore U… more »
Infrared port on my T60
January 8th, 2010Struggled to figure out how I could get the IR-port to function. It turned out that the port was functioning but I needed to send some data. Unlike Win XP which had a pop-up whenever a IR device was present, my Ubuntu installation have no such. Some stru… more »
Dirty laundry
January 8th, 2010Coop OBS has it all, even dirty laundry on sale... more »
Running Music Collector using Wine on Linux
January 8th, 2010Based on the guideline found at http://www.spotify.com/en/help/faq/wine/ I tried to do the same with my Cd collector program which they for some reason have decided not to make a Linux version of.
With Wine installed I downloaded the installation file… more »
Running Spotify on Linux using Wine
January 8th, 2010Could it be simpler? Think not...just follow the guideline found here http://www.spotify.com/en/help/faq/wine/
Listening to Green Day just now...but not loud, the tummy bug reminds me now and then that I'm alive, most of all giving me headaches now..… more »
Finally - Linux on my laptop
January 8th, 2010Yesterday I finally decided to take the time to install Linux on my Lenovo T60. Intentionally I planned to have two distros, one which just fires a browser and another one which offers a fullblown OS. But I got tired of trying to find a suitable small di… more »
Confusing Spotify with nothing
January 6th, 2010Read the article named "Halleluja for en åpningslåt!" yesterday, released by the band named [ingenting] (Ingenting is Norwegian for "nothing"). Had to check it out, so I search for Ingenting using Spotify. The result is quite interesting, I must admit th… more »
Top 15 Developerworks WebSphere articles of 2009
January 4th, 2010Developerworks have made an overview of the top 15 DW WebSphere articles of 2009, found this compilation from the Top 100 of 2009: developerWorks articles (and other favorite things) compilation. Lots of interesting stuff if you are in to stuff not only… more »
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
January 2nd, 2010Ordered it a long time ago on http://www.play.com, but due to some issues with the order it took some time before it arrived. Needless to say, after the concert last year I really had to have this cd as well. As American Idiot, it is a really good one! more »
Beck - Odelay
January 2nd, 2010Since I have two of Beck already, and it costed only 20,- at Platekompaniet, I had no excuse not to buy it... more »
System Of A Down - Steal This Album
January 2nd, 201020,- at Platekompaniet, have two of them already, yet another one, a really must have! more »
Quit Your Day Job - Tools For Fools
January 2nd, 201020,- NOK at Platekompaniet, been on one of their concerts here in Oslo a long time ago. more »
Ryan Adam - Demoliton
January 2nd, 201020,- NOK at Platekompaniet. Heard about him, not much of him, but Elin has another cd, so I bought it. more »
Suede - Head music
January 2nd, 201020,- NOK at Platekompaniet, a must have. more »
Suede - Coming Up
January 2nd, 201020,- NOK at Platekompaniet, a must have, plenty of beautiful ones... (did you get that?) more »
Judas Priest - Stained Glass
January 2nd, 201020,- NOK at Platekompaniet, a must have just because of the price, but also the fact that I need to have a huge collection of rock'n roll so that my son can get to learn what real music sounds like more »
Judas Priest - Turbo
January 2nd, 201020,- NOK at Platekompaniet, a must have just because of the price, but also the fact that it is Judas Priest. more »
Train plowing snow
January 1st, 2010A must see, trains plowing snow. Plenty of clips available on Youtube off course. Elin thought I was crazy when she heard asked what I was watching an evening early last year, but that was until she had seen it. She loved it!
[youtube]urNv1PMLwHI[/you… more »
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