Anti-virus on a stick: SLAX + F-Prot

If you are careful and knowledgeable when it comes to computers, you do not need to have an anti-virus program clogging up you system. But for most people this is a bad decition. Because people do get viruses. And once you do, perhaps because you failed to update your anti-virus program, chances are high that you’re fucked. No matter what anti-virus program you use, the virus won’t go away, and wont let itself be deleted. So what do you do?

What you need is to start up your computer without Windows (and thus the viruses) being loaded into memory. There are various ways you can do this, among those are a Windows Live CD with anti-virus (which I would like to write about later), but my solution to the problem is Linux and F-Secure’s mailserver/workstation package, F-PROT Antivirus.

Mirror Blog - facebook integration

Found a little facebook extension called Mirror Blog today. This enables you to show your blog entries in your facebook profile. So far, it’s a bit buggy and not quite feature complete, but mostly works. The problems I have experienced (through my ten minutes of use) are

1. The blog entries are cut where a <!–more–> is inserted. This special tag is used by WordPress to know how much of an entry is showed on the front page of the blog. Apparently Mirror Blog can’t cope with this at the moment, which is a serious flaw. A post like this
   

   Was kidnapped by a gang of prostitues today. Here’s my story <!–more–> So I went to this underground bar in the ninth district (…)

   becomes

   Was kidnapped by a gang of prostitues today. Here’s my story

   End of story. Not much fun in that …

2. Comments are not shared between the blogs. A comment on the facebook side of the blog stays there.
3. No way to go directly to the original blog page. The only link to the original blog points to the main page.

So it is not quite ripe yet, but could be a way to inform readers that otherwise would not know about your latest escapades.

Hva skjer med meg for tiden?

Det er lett å se fra innleggene de siste månedene at jeg virkelig ikke har hatt hverken tid eller ressurser til å følge opp bloggingen i noen særlig grad. De få tekniske artiklene jeg har skrevet er mer biprodukter av skolearbeid enn noe annet, og ikke særlig interessant for de som lurer på hvordan det går med meg og/eller Ida. Så jeg tenkte at i dag var dagen da jeg skulle endre litt på det!

Drittdebatter. For nå og for alltid?

Bruker du tid på debattsidene til Aftenposten og VG? Jeg ønsker ikke å forholde meg til de usmakelige innleggene på disse nettstedene, og jeg har all grunn til å tro at jeg ikke er alene. Både Jarle Aabø ⁽¹⁾ og Anders Andersen⁽²⁾, begge i E24, har tatt opp problemet med dritten i nettdebatten. Antagelig er dette del av en større sammenheng som går utover nettavisene; for ikke lenge siden leste jeg om en nedgang i antall mennesker som blogger aktivt på nettet (kilden har jeg beleilig nok/dessverre glemt), og jeg kan ikke si meg overrasket.

På den ene siden lider bloggingen av det samme hypefenomenet som alle andre webteknologier, og etter den første bølgen der “alle” skal på nett, har antall brukere dalt til mer edruelige nivåer.  På den andre siden tror jeg at folk rett og slett er lei av å bruke tid på å formulere seg saklig, for deretter å bli møtt med motbydeligheter og usakligheter fra anonyme  nettkrigere.

<title /> bug in Internet Explorer

Just thought I would bring along my experience on this little known bug in Internet Explorer.

Incomplete problem driver list for Vista SP1

The localized versions of Vista Service Pack 1 finally arrived today, but as it were, I never got the option of updating my Vista install through Windows Update. The Norwegian computer site Hardware.no had some info that pointed to a Microsoft Help and Support article on just this matter.

Successfully migrated blog!

At about 2 AM this night, I thought it would be a good idea to upgrade my ntnu hosted blog. (I really find myself quite bright at these hours). Surprise, surprise, the whole thing blew up.

Skype on 64 bit Ubuntu

I just installed Skype on the latest 64 bit version of Ubuntu 8.04, and thought I might share the knowledge of how to do it without breaking your system. Most of what I write is based upon Dave’s Blog, but I have modified it somewhat to reflect changes in Skype and because his original posting can break already installed system packages.

Prebuilt deb of MP3FS for Ubuntu 8.04 and 7.10

MP3FS is a read-only FUSE filesystem which transcodes audio formats (currently FLAC) to MP3 on the fly when opened and read.

Now, why would you want to do that?

Hans, Bratislava, og oppdatering.

Pappaen til Ida har i anledning vinterferien vår kommet på besøk. Vi har hittil kost oss på gode restauranter, tatt en kjapp dagstur til Bratislava, og sett Wien fra fots. Bildene har jeg lagt opp på Flickr (se lenger ned på siden for lenker). I samme slengen som jeg la opp bilder fra Bratislava har jeg også lagt opp bilder fra de siste månedene.