RIP Cezaar (08/05/2003 – 28/09/2008)

by zzillezz on September 28, 2008

Cezaar got hit by a car somewhere this morning not far from home. I hope he and Asteriks will be chasing mice in heaven now. I can’t stop crying … I made a picture gallery here.

Disable webcam in Ubuntu

by zzillezz on September 24, 2008

I was looking for a way to disable the built-in webcam on an Acer-laptop. Ubuntu, well Linux Mint actually, tried to identify and use the webcam during boot, over and over again. This caused a huge delay in booting time. (…)

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FrostWire chat server

by zzillezz on September 21, 2008

FrostWire, the filesharing application based on LimeWire, has a built in chat system. The built-in functions are very basic, and I’m not a big fan of the layout. So I asked wyrdjax in the #Support channel if it’s possible to (…)

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Windows Live Messenger 9 beta

by zzillezz on September 18, 2008

Windows Live Wave 3 beta went public. You can choose to install the other Windows Live products during install. If you don’t want them, don’t forget to tick them off! >> Download Windows Live Messenger 9 beta (Nederlands) >> Download (…)

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VLC media player 0.9.2

by zzillezz on September 16, 2008

VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with it’s own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn’t need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming (…)

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Pidgin 2.5.1

by zzillezz on September 9, 2008

More than ten days too late, but here’s Pidgin 2.5.1! Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell (…)

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