Monthly Archives: January 2009

Crap in Gmail

The story of the Google Chrome Logo

Source: http://www.onecomics.it/12/09/2008/google-sfida-microsoft-con-chrome/

VirtualBox Windows 7 Glory (starring Mr. Seamless Mode)

VirtualBox in its full glory…

Selective import of SVN branches into a git/git-svn repository

Use Case You are using Git and git-svn on a big project which has lots of branches and tags but you only need to work with a small selection of those and you don’t want to import all of the …

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DataGridView revamp for Mono 2.4 – Data Binding and more

In December I developed a simple student registration system, where I utilized DataGridView, BindingSources  and the WinForms DataBinding all over the place (developed fully in Visual Studio 2008). Then I ran it only to discover that it was utterly broken …

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openSUSE 11.1 – The Workarounds

Due to popular demand (basically people asking me for the workarounds for the openSUSE 11.1 problems listed in my previous post) I have decided to make the workarounds available in this post. DVD Burning Edit as root /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.device-access.policy and change …

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openSUSE 11.1 – A Disappointment

I recently updated from openSUSE 11.0 to 11.1 (installed fresh) and I am very disappointed. Out of the box broken are: DVD burning GNOME session saving wvdial, so I can’t use my phone as a 3G/data modem. Dropbox, which seems …

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