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Archive for February, 2005

libxml++ article

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Back in August 2004, The C/C++ User's Journal editor asked me to do an introductory article on libxml++, but has not replied to my emails since, or paid me for the delivered work.
So now it is online here instead as the libxml++ manual. At least now I'll be able to correct any errors.


GUADEC 2005/Stuttgart building

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

Yesterday I took the train to Stuttgart to meet Tim Ney and take a tour around the Haus der Wirtschaft, where GUADEC 2005 will take place in May, with Hanno Wagner and Joerg Hoh (local open source enthusiasts who also helped with the KDE aKademy), and Christina Wolf from Baden-W�berg Connected.
The building is a dedicated […]


Nvidia TwinView

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

I just got my Dell laptop working with my new external flat-screen monitor as multi-head, more or less. I enjoy so much moving windows gradually from one screen to the other.
However, the Nvidia graphic cards don't seem to support the regular “Xinerama” way of doing multi-head. Instead they have TwinView, which I think makes X-Windows […]


Ubuntu wins again

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

I bought a new tower PC (Dell Dimension 5000, with Intel P4 530HT) mostly to take the strain off when doing distchecks. Installing Linux was a bit of a struggle.
I wanted to keep the pre-installed NTFS Windows XP partition, but I did not find any LiveCD that was capable of resizing it. Most did not […]