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My very own hackergotchi head

Vector cartoon style faceLast week I found this Avatar while browsing the Ubuntu community forums. I really like the style and decided to make one myself which should also look kinda like me.

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Gtk.TreeView right click part 2

While on my winter vacation I played around with the Gtk.TreeView and the right click challanges. I found a way to extract the row which is clicked on and the data within.

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XSLT: Search replace attribute values

Yesterday I needed an xsl transformation which could replace a specific attribute value in a xml file and keep the rest intact. The following code is put together by pieces I found around the net (copy-paste FTW :) ):

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HTTP POST requests from command line with curl

One of our customers have a JBoss application which they wanted to monitor with a script (in the long run Heartbeat2). By making a specific HTTP POST request to which the answer is known, it is possible to check if the server is running as expected. The HTTP POST request consist of a header and a body. The header is automaticaly generate from the parameters you provide curl and the body is provided in the --data parameter.

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Website moved to new server

As of right now I have moved my website to new server out in town on a 100MBit line, so it should be fairly fast. This is the first step in shutting down my server at home entirely. Lets see how it works out.

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Shuttle wireless not working with WPA in Ubuntu Edgy

Today I used my Ubuntu Linux workstation at home for several hours. I usually only use it for playing World of Warcraft (which until now have been on Windows). When even I need to do some Linux stuff I usually just fire up my trusty IBM x40 laptop, which only takes a few seconds since I always suspend to RAM.

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