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Top 7 things that I'd like to see in 2009

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It seems that it's a cool meme nowadays to express your predictions for the next year so I thought I should give it a try.

1. AMD regains market share with Phenom II
2. Intel doesn't become an ass like the old Pentium 4 days when they didn't innovate at all and demanded high prices for their cpu's. Yes I'm talking to you Core 7.
3. Gnome reveals a roadmap to Gnome 3.0
4. KDE finally makes it mainstream with either their 4.2 or 4.3 release.
5. Nvidia buys VIA because of the increasing need of having a platform to offer to vendors.
6. More game makes start using OpenGL. That increases the change of games being ported to MacOSX / Linux ( See Unreal Tournament / Doom etc.)
7. I will get free cookies :D and finish my learning of django / drupal / jquery :P

Strange Digg Error

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Trying to login in digg with konqueror got me a strange little error.

Strange Digg error

How to enable mysql 5 compatibility mode

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You can retrieve the current global or session sql_mode value with the following statements:

  1. SELECT @@GLOBAL.sql_mode;
  2. SELECT @@SESSION.sql_mode;

And set it with :

  1. REPLACE IN my.ini the current sql-mode line WITH sql-mode="MYSQL40"
  2. Start MySQL WITH the OPTION --sql-mode="MYSQL40"
  3. Execute the query SET GLOBAL sql_mode='MYSQL40'

Free css design

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I decided to publish my attempt of making a design from scratch for belletristisch.
It is valid xhtml 1.0 strict and valid css 2.1 (according to w3).
The design is licensed under Creative Commons License and it was done in Linux using gedit and Gimp. For some strange reason i can't find my .xcf source files so i can't remember what's the font.

It's by no means perfect and it still has some small traces of inline css in it.

Demo | Download

Blood boil

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Bloody hands that touch your skin
Make your blood boil from within
Your dreams shatter like thin glass
You are just another lass

Darkened night that falls asleep
Your emotions are shallow deep
Break the mask you love so much
Look around, await and watch

Top 7 Pidgin Plugins

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1. Buddy State Notification

Notifies in a conversation window when a buddy goes or returns from away or idle.

It's useful if you're talking with somebody and he goes away and you want to be notified of his return.

2. History

A must for everyone that need to see past conversations.
To use this plugin you need to enable the Logging option from Tools > Preferences > Logging.

3. Message Notification
Provides a variety of ways of notifying you of unread messages.
It's usefulness is best when combined with the buddy state notification because that plugin inserts a text line in the chat window
that triggers the message notification.

4. Psychic Mode
Causes conversation windows to appear as other users begin to message you. This works for AIM, ICQ, XMPP, Sametime, and Yahoo!
It's useful if you want to make fun of somebody because nobody usually expects you to say something while they start typing to you for the
first time

5. Send button
Adds a Send button to the entry area of the conversation window.
Do you miss the send button from the chat area ? Now you can add it back easily

6. Off-the-Record Messaging
Preserves the privacy of IM communications by providing encryption, authentication, deniability, and perfect forward secrecy.
For people that need to be sure that what they talk with somebody remains strictly between them.

7. Muzic Tracker
The MusicTracker Plugin allows you to customize your status message with information about currently playing song from your music player.
If you want to show your chat buddies what are you listening to.

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