Jacken’s Blog

Here’s a nice bug for ya. One of the users at work has a Word document, and when she uses “Save As…” to save the file to another location everything looks normal. But Word never saves the file! It’s non existant! This is only if the setting for compatibility with Office 2004 is set.

This isn’t the first time something like this happened, you also have the infamous “Let’s delete the Powerpoint file before saving and then crasch“-bug where users where left without a document after saving.

You see a lot of reviews of Office 2008, but it feels like no one has the guts to call the pig a pig…

since using my new mail system Zimbra, I Must say I’m very impressed. The web client is actually so good that I now use it more than Apples built in mail that I’ve used forever. But until it’s time to migrate this setup to work I need to run it a bit more and also try to restore a backup. I can’t use the standard backup because thats not included in the open source addition. I also need to read up on the performance of it. Using it at home with 5 users really does not give a good indication on how much processing power needed for 45 users. Theres also two ways of doing the install, one is to install everything on one machine, another to split up the work to several servers. It does seem to be a problem to upgrade a single server to multi-server so I need to get it right from the beginning.

So i’ve upgraded some of the users to Microsoft Office 2008 at work, just to see if we have less problems with it. But It seems like the geniuses at Microsoft still can’t program. The classic “you are out of memory” dialog pops up in Word, and it’s impossible to save to any volume. My attempt to move users to another program has been unsuccessful.

But I guess it keeps the support industry going…

After getting a 3G connection on my new toy, I noticed that connecting to a site when browsing the web could take a long time, but as soon as it gets to the page it’s fast. Typical behavior of a slow DNS server. So after changing my /etc/resolv.conf file to use the OpenDNS servers instead, the increase in speed is incredible!

The eee PC use resolvconfig, so to make the changes permanent you need to go to the directory

sudo pico /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base

nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220

My guess is that Tre has a lot of customers that gets annoyed of the slow speed, and all the provider needs to do is to upgrade their dns servers. Or maybe tip their customer of a better alternative. Go figure…

i’ve spent this weekend building and installing a new web/mailserver. My decision to go with Zimbra doesn’t feel so risky, because Microsoft gave up on their idea of a Yahoo! takeover.

The only thing I can say is: Yahoo!

I just got my Asus eee pc 900 from Taiwan. Here’s a quick tip for other users of tre.se 3G wireless broadband. When connecting the Huwei USB modem, the Asus Mobile Phone tool automatically starts. But the supplied carriers are only for Taiwan. Select Chungwa and select “Others”. Enter bredband.tre.se in the field. Save the settings and your up and running!

After getting my E-MU 0404 USB audio interface I have started to rip my vinyl record collection. I want to retain as much as possible of the amazing sound of vinyl, so I rip everything in 24bit 48khz. Why not use 96khz? Well, my preferred playback device, the Squeezebox only supports 24/48 unfortunately.

Here’s how I do it… [Read more →]

For probably 20 years I’ve been searching for a song. An old friend of mine, Micke Fredriksson used to play this punk song from a live recording. The only thing I remembered was that they sang “They called me an animal, then they cut me up”. So sometimes I searched the net for the text, but could never find out the name of the song. Irritating!

But today I went to a vinyl record sale and I found it! As soon as I saw the album cover I knew that it was the right one. So now I can finally listen to Art Attacks masterpiece Animal Bondage

The last couple of years due to the iPod, I’ve listened to more music than ever before. I also haven’t bought much music. But in the last six month I bought a lot of CDs and now also vinyl records. I would never pay full price for a CD, in Sweden you pay around $18! But I do buy nice price CDs. Then I have to pay around $5. And vinyl can be even cheaper. Hopefully the record industry will finally get it and change their pricing so I don’t have to buy back catalog all the time.

I’ve been sick today with stomach flue. If this keeps up I’ll have to do a rectal transplant.