Daniel Aleksandersen

Cloud services at home, with the Bubba|Two

Monday, 21. September 2009, 15:26:00

Saturday, I got a Bubba|Two mini server (above) from Swedish hardware maker Excito. I haven’t had the time to set it up until now, but I know that this is going to be one very interesting home Linux project!

It’s been four years since I left Mac OS X for Linux after Mail in OS X Tiger refused to send my emails in UTF-8. About a year ago I made the switch back to Mac OS for this job as an Mac consultant at Opera. I never really left the Unix world, and now I am going back in to take control of my own online data.

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SSD performance

Tuesday, 15. September 2009, 16:34:00

hardware

Unfortunately, I have lost the performance data I gathered when I upgraded my Mac mini with an SSD. Even with a Time Machine backup there will always be dataloss when moving over to a new hard drive. Here are some quick impressions about the upgrade.

I don’t know whether the improvements are due to the SSD or my other recent upgrade: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I do know, however, that I did an incremental updated from Mac OS X 10.6.0 to 10.6.1 in 46 seconds—including a reboot! That is pretty impressive.

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Network problems with Opera on Snow Leopard?

Friday, 11. September 2009, 09:47:24

desktopteam, peregrine, IPv6, snow leopard

Users who are on ISPs who have switched on AAAA records on their DNS servers have had problems with pages never loading in Opera 10. The problem is caused by networking changes in Mac OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ and Opera 10. This even affected popular pages like google.com.

Long story short: Opera relies on the system to determine IPv6 link capabilities. Due to changes in Snow Leopard, this made Opera 10 attempt to make an IPv6 connection over IPv4 for IPv6/4 hybrid Web sites.

The latest snapshot release introduces a work around that will resolve this problem. The fix may introduce some problems on IPv6 only networks, but it is unlikely to affect any users.

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No update in a while

Monday, 7. September 2009, 11:14:59

Been some very busy weeks! We have been testing and testing to get 10.0 out the door. If you’ve been living under a rock or simply happen to only ever read this blog hen your online, … here is a nice promotional graphic to explain what have happen:

Get a faster browser, get Opera browser!

Opera 10 was released. Download now!

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Mac mini upgrade: SSD

Saturday, 15. August 2009, 15:08:38

hardware

I have already got the fastest browser … how could I possibly make this experience any faster? Short answer: a quick hardware upgrade to an Solid State Drive from OCZ! Of course.

I am still waiting for the disk to be delivered. But as I am very excited about this simple upgrade, I thought I would share some thoughts about it.

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What search engine have the better answer?

Tuesday, 21. July 2009, 13:00:00

the-web

Is it Bing, Yahoo! Search, Ask.com, or Google? It’s neither one. Cuil has the better answer and even the correct URL to go along with it. I asked: better browser?

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Mac users: Go get Beta 2 (please!)

Thursday, 16. July 2009, 11:38:28

peregrine

Are you using Opera 10 Beta on the Mac? Please update to Beta 2. The second beta features many bug fixes and integrated crash logging for Mac. Help us make Opera 10 the most stable release ever. Submit your crash logs automatically-when-Opera-crashes today!

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Opera Mini commercial

Friday, 3. July 2009, 21:48:53

opera-mini, youtube

I have been humming on the song from this Indonesian TV commercial (featuring Opera Mini!) for over a week. I just wanted to spread the ~~joy~~ pain.