Thomas Nybergh’s pages

I generally find music videos with bands miming songs to be depressing nonsense. An exception to this rule is made by The Get Out Clause, an unsigned Manchester band with their video for a song titled “Paper” (link to higher quality Youtube video).
By cleverly taking advantage of The United Kingdom’s groundbreaking pioneer work in making [...]

EDIT: This post gets some traffic from Google users who probably are more interested in a later post on fixing a problem causing Ubuntu 8.04’s Amarok not to play any sound.

After upgrading to Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) I noticed that Amarok (Ubuntu package version 1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3), one of my preferred audio players/music libraries, didn’t [...]

The GNOME desktop environment project is plagued by a design philosophy that apparently aims to make user interfaces suitable for lobotomy victims at the cost of removing features and options from the GUI. This has been discussed endlessly elsewhere.
Something probably related to this surfaced when I upgraded to Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron). A [...]

Although the new Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS release is nice and polished, there are a few glitches in how the bundled GNOME environment allows the user to customize some behavior.
Settings for how the desktop environment should handle removable media are important for me as I loathe the idea of having to deal with any [...]

Reading lists of new .fi domains granted by Ficora is a terrible waste of time for persons whose psyches don’t sort the notion of monitoring Finnish Internet businesses into some internal “fun” folder. I happen to enjoy following stuff like this, which is why this RSS feed with daily updates on new .fi domain registrations [...]

Följande är en insändare som jag tillsammans med några nära bekanta skickade till Hufvudstadsbladet för omkring månad sedan. Som botten användes en av mina tidigare texter, som förkortades och gjordes sakligare för att passa in i dagstidningsmiljö där brist på spaltutrymme kräver disciplinerade, kortfattade texter befriade från det extra fluff jag tenderar att producera. Texten [...]

Facing pressure over anger of a kind hard which is hard to explain to middle class white people, displayed in public by a priest of the church that he attends, Senator Barrack Obama, a potential Sensible Candidate in the upcoming presidential elections is the USA, commented on issues of Race in a recent speech. As [...]

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Osa Irakin sodan vastaista toimintapäivää 19.3.!
Dokumentti: Taksi pimeyteen (Taxi to the Dark Side 2007)
Aika 19.00-21.00
Paikka: Kirjan sali
Kirjatyöntekijänkatu 10, Kruununhaka, Helsinki
Dokumenttia kommentoimassa Canyon Porter
Kirjan salissa esitetään kello 19 alkaen parhaan dokumenttielokuvan
Oscar-palkinnon saanut Taksi pimeyteen (Taxi to the Dark Side, 2007).
Elokuva kuvaa ihmisten kidutusta sodan runtelemassa Irakissa ja
Afganistanissa sekä Guantánamon [...]

(I hate Courier New)
For some time, I’ve used Dimitar Zhekov’s clean, fixed-width font Terminus for terminal-heavy situations in both GNU/Linux and Windows. I’m clueless in the area of typography, but Terminus looks oddly appealing when looking at e.g. code (which I don’t write myself), configuration and log files. I keep backup copies of a TTF [...]

Late last month, the Debian GNU/Linux project announced that security patch support for the old stable release, 3.1 (codename Sarge), will end on the last day of March. Many people will be using servers, integrated and other special systems with Sarge for a long time to come, without applying any patches, and I’m afraid I’ll [...]