#Gecko problems: keyboard navigation, Meta key, button8, printing, Acid test, form security The Web is a common platform for many everyday activities today. But working with it is still often annoying, one reason being lack of a good end user client. We’ve got Emacs for text editing, organizing, communication, programming, file management, calculations, etc. But […]

I had an opportunity to watch Garmin nüvi GPS equipped with CN maps while travelling by a car some time ago. I was curious about how good those maps are compared to OpenStreetMap. By my observation the Garmin maps are worse. They tried to navigate us through fields (despite unpaved ways were disabled in setup) […]

Do you know which PC chess playing engine became the second strongest one in the world after Rybka this year? It’s Stockfish, a free chess engine distributed under the GNU General Public License. It may look surprising that a hobby program with publicly available source code can beat all the proprietary engines with their secrets […]

I’ve started using Org-mode some time ago (more on this sometimes later). Consolidation of my personal information management and complete move to Org-mode applies also to my weblog articles. They are now part of my Org and all I additionally needed was to publish the resulting HTML texts. I looked for something simple and available […]

I tried to make OpenVPN working in a Linux-VServer environment about a year ago. I couldn’t find a straightforward HOWTO nor answers to all my questions. So I described what I had done and sent my questions to the VServer mailing list. I expected that I get answers to my questions and then other users […]

Thanks to GNUBridge I could play a few games of contract bridge last weekend, for the first time since my student years!

I made my first small contributions to the OpenStreetMap project. I think making free maps is important and it’s a lot of fun. When you buy or use a proprietary map, it’s usually limited in its use, imperfect and you can’t customize and improve it. A free project can change this. My first impressions about […]

Software patents make serious danger to all computer users, software developers and generally anybody who has something to do with computers and computing devices. I’m not going to elaborate on that topic here, you can find information about it e.g. on the web pages of Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. The important thing is […]

We have moved from qmail to Exim recently on our company mail server. It is a big relief. The mail server can handle the high amount of incoming junk mail now, it is reasonably manageable and provides readable logs. It was late transfer. It is not easy to move a mail server to a completely […]