Using Chrome, BankID and IcedTea

The reason why Sun / Oracle java is pivotal for me, is my banking service. They require a god awful java plugin to run, which is not cross platform (they developed it on a cross platform platform, but failed to be cross platform), it is also terrible unstable in Chrome. It simply fails to run, and continuously tells me to install Sun Java.

Anyway, there is a plugin for a specific implementation of BankID of one bank available in the Chrome app store (just click here), which apparently forces the plugin to trigger. I have not tried this at all, cause right now I have Firefox, and using a ppa for Oracle Java, but it is definitely worth taking a note of, as Oracle is continuing to mangle and strangle Java, and as I understand it, any redistributing of it right now is fairly complicated. I know Ubuntu is (have) removing it all together due to license changes, pretty sure other major distributions will do the same, and really, nothing will make me happier not having to remove and replace less applications on a new install. In other news, Minecraft runs on OpenJDK, which is my number two reason for having Java installed.

Things I did after installing Xubuntu 11.10

Yeah, I am riding the bandwagon on this one… However, this time around some things were a bit more hard this time around, primarily installing Sun java.

How to use conky and lm sensors (CPU temperature)

If you don’t know what conky it, be sure to check it out. Anyway, I have for a long time been using conky to monitor some critical temperatures on my computer, ever since I had a problem with my graphic cards overheating severly after building my computer. 

Why liveCD is bad for your weekend

Last weekend I was feeling a rush for a switch, so I went looking for a new distro. I ended up going for Chakra, cause I downloaded the liveCD just to take it for a spin. Problem is when you are feeling the itch, you are very excited for everything new, which in some cases make you forget why you dislike KDE in the first place.

This pretty much resulted in me spending half my saturday downloading different systems (Mageia GNOME Live and ZenWalk 7.0 Live), figuring out why they won’t work, then redownloading your original distro, having 3 botched installs due to incompatibilities between the dbus version, which result in you having to format your home partition to freaking solve it. Total time wasted: Saturday evening + sunday morning until afternoon. Be smart about it…

Why I want / won’t to jump to Sabayon

I have been using Xubuntu 10.10 recently, mostly because Arch Linux absolutely refuses to connect through wireless on install CD through cli. So I have been feeling the itch to switch it up, mostly because my wireless card is so unstable in Xubuntu right now (constant time outs is annoying). So I downloaded the live DVD of Sabayon XFCE, and gave it a spin. 

Spotify – An update

So, I have been away for work the past 3 weeks, so I have not been able to update much. However, a while ago Spotify was released in USA as well. Spotify is a music streaming service, which comes in both free (ad supported) and paid version. However, if you want the free version, you will need an invite. It so happens that I have a few invites laying about, so if you want one, give me a shout.

Also, Spotify works perfectly under Linux with Ubuntu / Debian or Fedora / Mandriva / OpenSuSE for now. Or you can always use Crossover or Wine. Check out http://www.spotify.com/no/download/previews/ for more details

Why we use linux

I just saw an image the other day, and figured I had to make a quick post about it(Sorry, do not know the credits for it):

So true

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don’t know about others, but I sure recognize my self in this…

Social Gaming

Yeah, not really an gaming on Linux post, but more a spam my project post. Anyway, I have long been a gamer, though never on a PC (even though my current computer is pretty high spec’d). For the most part I play on consoles, more specifically on Playstation 3. I have also long been a member of a small, but social clan, which is really what I love about this online world.

Fedora 15 XFCE Spin

After using Xubuntu for a while, I noticed some hardware issues with my wireless keyboard and mouse. Mostly, it would not recognize keystrokes and mouse clicks. Annyoing as this was, I decided to jump to another distribution, thinking it was a (X)ubuntu problem. As Fedora 15 just had released, and I have not had a go at it since 8, I figured it was probably the best bet (also because I could not really connect to my wireless network using Arch Linux, which was my number 1 choice).

GNOME Shell or Unity?

So, after my crash and burn with Ubuntu’s Unity, I decided to take a go with GNOME3 and OpenSUSE. My first impressions are that there are in fact very little difference between Unity and GNOME Shell..