Geekness – closer to the world

I finally installed IpCop 1.4.x on my firewall. The installation was easy as ever and the web-gui looks quite good to me (even with dhtml menues ;)). A nice feature of the new 1.4.x branch is the built-in packet shaping (or QoS – Quality of Service). You can set for each port and protocol (TCP/UDP) […]

Google adds API for their personalized homepage three days ago. I had no time to write a new entry here, but I made some modules for the site. You can find my list of modules at Google: Personalized Homepage modules. Let me know what you think about and post some comments. You can read more […]

You think you have a big ego? You can check it now online at http://ego.rubycandy.com/ My ego for “Corsin Camichel” and “cocaman.ch” gives me 6635 EgoPoints. And a search for “cocaman” and “cocaman.ch” 6788 egoPoints. Very good 🙂

A few days ago, Microsoft presented the first part of their new online strategy called “Windows Live”. Based on Virtual Earth, the user can browse around the world (mainly US) and use street- and image-maps. Sounds like we the known Google Earth/Maps. But Microsoft has something new: bird’s eye This part shows you a very […]

It is done! The Mozilla Foundation/Corp. released the final 1.5 version of their OpenSource and free Internet browser Mozilla Firefox. Get it now!. Localizations – in 19 languages – are already out. Other highlights in this version: + Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox […]

Release: VLC media player 0.8.4 ( 2005-11-26) This new release features many improvements including a new VLC cone, new Mac OS X wizard and extend controls dialogs, tree playlist skins2 support, HTTP interface CGI handling, linux binary codecs loader, UPnP and Bonjour service discovery, shoutcast stream forwarding, new languages … Have a look here for […]