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A few months ago I, full of ambition, started a series of posts about how the web is evolving, titled 'The Emerging Web', you can find them in my archives. I never got around finishing it. Basically the scope was a bit too broad. I started way back with how ARPANET became the Internet, and was planning to finish with all the current and exciting developments. There's enough material there to fill a book with.
What those developments of the contemporary web are is wonderfully explained in an article I couldn't have written in a million years.

Submitted by Arne on Wed, 11/29/2006 - 03:28
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Working man blues

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Submitted by Arne on Tue, 11/07/2006 - 21:01
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Feisty Fawn kicks off as Edgy Eft prepares to hit shelves

The next release of the Ubuntu GNU/linux distro has been announced today. The latest Ubuntu release, 6.06 codenamed Dapper Drake, was released in June. Now the next release, 6.10 but lovelingly referred to as Edgy Eft is set to be released the 26th of October. Edgy is currently in beta, and should enter the release-candidate stage tomorrow. Installable Live CD's can be found through the Ubuntu/Kubuntu and Edubuntu sites for the various subprojects. If you feel like trying it out consider downloading through your favorite bittorrent client.

Submitted by Arne on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 23:39
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Internet Explorer on Linux

It's possible to run Internet Explorer on Linux (you know, that unsafe inferior webbrowser from Microsoft that the majority of internet users choose to use). In fact it's very easy thanks to the wonderful IEs4Linux script.

The script will download and install IE5.01, IE5.5 and IE6. I tried it on my Ubuntu machine and it works flawless. Here's what you need to do:

Submitted by Arne on Tue, 09/12/2006 - 17:36
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Java debugging tip

Here's a little trick to help you debug your Java programs. When an Exception occurs and it's not caught somewhere, you get a stacktrace to help you locate the problem. When you do catch an Exception you can still call printStackTrace() on it. But what if you just like to see the call stack?

Submitted by Arne on Fri, 09/01/2006 - 17:19
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Installing OpenOffice 2.0.3 on Ubuntu Dapper Drake

More than a month ago OpenOffice 2.0.3 was released, with a bunch of notable improvements. Dapper Drake, the latest release from the Ubuntu Linux distro still contains version 2.0.2. Since it contains new features it will probably have to wait for the next release to be included. Updated packages can be added to a distribution through the updates repositories, but only if they address bugfixes only.

Submitted by Arne on Fri, 08/18/2006 - 18:50
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