… is what I gave myself as a little present ;)
It also cures some little problems the old one had … in case you find more … let me know!
Category Archives: Computers and IT
SplitBill revised
There is a new version of SplitBill out on the market.
Still it allows you to split bills amoung your friends or whatever, but now it also suggests an optimised transaction scheme. This way the number of transactions needed to even out the expences is reduced to a minimum (one per person in the best case).
The only drawback of this optimisation is the fact that larger amounts have to be transfered by each individual. Of course you still get the traditional calculation, so you can choose for yourself.
Things to think about …
Until June 14th you can watch HOME, the new film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, for free online on YouTube … it features some really fascinating sights on our planet and rises some good questions to think about …
Hiking online
Since we had some troubles finding nice and well described hikes, and maybe also because I like adding things to my webpage, I now have a section on hikes.
Each hike comes with some information on duration, height and length, with a map and an elevation profile … the last and very nice hike I did on Sunday is also in!
I’ll try to add more over the coming weekends/months/years …
A Jaunty Jackalope on my Laptop [Update]
I got a Jaunty Jackalope on my laptop since Thursday …
In case you woonder … what the hack? … click the link and get your own new Ubuntu/Kubuntu release ;) … I got myself the one with the extra K!
And by today I actually have almost everything running again … puha!
It’s not always straight forward to do one of these upgrades, but hey …
Jaunty comes with the new KDE4 desktop which seems nice but still freaks me out sometimes, due to the changes compared to KDE3.5.
[Update]
I had to remove the intgrated Network Management tool by wicd and disable the desktop effects, but otherwise I hope to have solved all issues by now …
In case you want some guidance for the setup, here’s a nice webpage with a lot of information about Jaunty …