Archive for the 'internet' Category

Compiling Firefox Beta 5 on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon with nicer fonts

Monday, May 5th, 2008

The firefox binaries available on Mozilla’s site is compiled with a version of cairo that does a different type of subpixel rendering when anti-aliasing than what is used by the Ubuntu Gutsy system - I much prefer the way fonts look in ubuntu on my LCD display. To fix this I had to compile Firefox […]

SEACOM prices announced - some light at the end of the tunnel?

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

From http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/2911.html: Brian Herlihy, SEACOM president, said that the idea behind the cable is to offer international bandwidth at a lower price but to increase usage to ensure profits. In a move seldom experienced in the local telecoms arena, SEACOM revealed their wholesale pricing structure and strategy to the media. […]

Quod Libet plugin for Facebook

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Still very rough and hackish, but it works ;)Quod Libet plugin to change your Facebook status message The quodlibet plugin is just a quick hack of the gajim plugin, the python class is easy to use anywhere…

From Stellenbosch berg

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Speed Reading Made EZ

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Found the following in some newsgroup. Some more detail on speed reading here:Speed reading - wikibooksTest your reading speed with this handy Online Reading Speed Test.

Sit down at a well lit table and sit up straight.

Take a hard cover book with big easy to read print. preferably not a novel — some […]