andri.dk
andri.dk
Andri Óskarsson
I'm a computer nerd from Iceland, living in Denmark. I try to write about software, learning, computers and technology.
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As a kid in Iceland, I was always fascinated by all things technical. Be it light-switches at my grandmothers house or what is generally described as the idiot-box. I have always loved this stuff, and still do. When I was eight years...
I started hacking around with PHP in 1998 but never really considered it development until I learned what I used to consider "superior languages". A decade later, PHP is going strong and I am actually employed at a company where we do a...
Please don't call me cheesy, but I am going to attempt to do some predictions for the year 2012 - like so many others. 2012 will not be the year of the Linux desktop. We're already there, but nobody noticed. The patent war will escalate...
There has been a lot written about Gnome 3 in the past half a year. People do not like change, and the fact that we now have Unity, Gnome 3 and KDE 4 leaves many people wanting their fucking old desktop back. I tried Unity for a few...
Coming from a nation of 300.000 people has its downsides, like lack of keyboard support on various platforms. So, when I got my awesome Nokia N9, I wasn't all that surprised that there was no text input option for "Íslenska" or...
I spend a great deal of time reading about new technologies. Usually, that leaves me excited with all the new cool upcoming stuff and occasionally I feel like developing on it. For a while, I have been a big fan of the Qt development...
I live abroad, disconnected from friends, ex co-workers and family so I try to use social tools to stay in touch. With the rise of Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and every other web 2.0 webpage on the Internet - you can be social everywhere....
As a part of my site restoration, this page was salvaged and may not be up to date Everyone has important files like personal photographs, bank statements, a life's accumulation of porn and so and and so forth that would be hard or...
As a part of my site restoration, this page was salvaged and may not be up to date While usually operating some sort of backup systems, it may become necessary to perform at remote backup of a machine without initiating locally. There...
As a part of my site restoration, this page was salvaged and may not be up to date I just got my Macbook a few days ago but I've been a Linux user for 9 years and a Windows user for too long to remember so this was kinda of a shock for...