datetime.datetime(2011, 12, 23, 17, 48, 53)

<p> <img alt="Financing Open-Source-Projects via the Ubuntu Software-Center" src="http://rockiger.com/static/img/open-source-projekte-finanzieren.jpg" title=" A way to finance free software" style="width: 626px; height: 132px" /></p> <p> Since a few month it&#39;s relatively easy to offer commercial software through the Ubuntu Software-Center. Why shouldn&#39;t this be used to finance open-source projects like the Gimp, Ardour or Openshot and support their development efforts.</p> <p> Let&#39;s Take <a href="http://lunduke.com/?p=1688" title="Linux Sucks (less than before) Talk">Brian Lunduke&#39;s favorite example</a>: The Gimp. Before I want to make an fundamental assumption: It doesn&#39;t conflict with the open-source/free software idea, to sell software, if you publish the source code at the same time.</p> <h2> How could this look like?</h2> <p> For Gimp there are certain plugins, which are not available via the standard package sources and which maintenance is bugging the typical (web-) designer.</p>

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Financing Open-Source-Projects via the Ubuntu Software-Center

datetime.datetime(2011, 10, 6, 19, 50, 26)

<p> <img alt="Steve Jobs - we will always remember" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/eternal_flame.gif" style="width: 370px; height: 223px" title="There's always the hope that if you sit and watch for long enough, the beachball will vanish and the thing it interrupted will return." /></p> <div> <a href="http://xkcd.com/961/">xkcd</a></div> <p> Dear Steve Jobs,&nbsp;</p> <p> thank you for the inspiration - as a geek and an entrepreneur.</p> <p> <strong>We will never forget!</strong></p>

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Steve Jobs - we will always remember

datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 12, 7, 56, 31)

<p> <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/ClDZpRuNVqA?version=3" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="390" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/ClDZpRuNVqA?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640"></embed></object></p> <p> This is an <a href="http://ignite.oreilly.com/">Ignite</a> presentation, that I gave last year at the <a href="http://webmontag-ffm.de/">Webmontag in Frankfurt</a>: <b>&quot;Help Linux Users To Kick Ass&quot;</b>.</p>

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Help Linux Users Kick Ass

datetime.datetime(2011, 2, 26, 23, 6, 50)

<p> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470876417?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=nami08-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0470876417"><img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4H2GTEd_O_8/TWl3X44DcYI/AAAAAAAAAXU/rIbFcN90MKs/513M4EgnCqL._SL160_.jpg" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=nami08-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0470876417" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" width="1" /></p> <p> The Business Model Canvas is a great tool to draft different business models for your business idea. It is an accompanying download to the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470876417?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=nami08-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0470876417">Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers book by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur</a>. The only drawback is, that it&#39;s poster sized and not usable as a print out for your notebook.</p>

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Business Model Canvas For Letter and A4

datetime.datetime(2011, 2, 13, 16, 16, 52)

<p> <img alt="Find Innovative Ideas with the 7 Source of Innovations" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_4H2GTEd_O_8/TVgC7J7WzXI/AAAAAAAAAWw/dqqSHwR1NdM/find-innovative-ideas.jpg" style="width: 626px; height: 200px" title="Find Innovative Ideas with the 7 Source of Innovations" /></p> <p> The 7 Sources of Innovation help you to look systematically for innovative Ideas. It doesn&#39;t matter if you</p> <ul> <li> want to start a new open source project</li> <li> are searching for interesting topic for your next thesis</li> <li> are looking for innovative business idea or</li> <li> you want to put up an effective social project.</li> </ul> <p> It neither doesn&#39;t matter, if you are looking for <strong>technical or social innovation</strong>. The point rather is to find out about <strong>demand, feasibility and timing of an innovation</strong>.</p> <h2> Ideas are not found by accident</h2> <p> To find new ideas you are normally advised to do some creativity techniques like Brainstorming or you are told to<a href="http://paulgraham.com/organic.html" title="Organic Startup Ideas by Paul Graham"> build a product for yourself</a>. Ironically there is many advice to test you idea or business model - finding the idea in the first place is something accidental.</p>

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The 7 And A Half Sources Of Innovation

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 28, 22, 59, 9)

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; text-align: right;"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <img alt="Hendrix painting by furibond" height="184" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4H2GTEd_O_8/SaBWzyhxJeI/AAAAAAAAADA/O1DVauQM3Og/s400/Hendrix_painting.jpg" title="Hendrix Painting by furibond" width="240" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td> Would he have used Linux? <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/furibond/">by furibond</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> <a href="http://ostatic.com/blog/why-would-windows-7s-success-necessarily-doom-linux">At the moment some people are telling us Linux would have finally lost the battle for the desktop.</a> For justification they claim Windows 7 is overtaking the netbook market. In this essay I will argue, Linux has not lost the desktop market and it should not position itself in the low-end PC market but in the high-end.</p> <h2> Linux can not lose the desktop market.</h2> <p> As I said before, <a href="http://rockiger.com/en/content/why-microsoft-dying-giant">Linux can not be beaten in the market</a> as long there are curious programmers all over the world contributing to Free Software. For the success of Free Software it is not important how many people are using it. It is important how many people are contributing to Free Software. This argument stays true for big projects, like Gnome and KDE, and for all the small projects, like Scribes, Impressive, Gnome-Do, etc., that make Open Source Software so exciting.</p>

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Positioning Linux In The Desktop Market (or Why Hendrix would have used Linux)

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 27, 21, 36, 33)

<p>A few days ago I spotted a wine for Ubuntu users. Unfortunately the shop was closed. But I think I will come back and taste the wine. € 9,99 is not to bad. Cheers!</p> <div style="vertical-align:top"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4H2GTEd_O_8/TEMIikakWjI/AAAAAAAAAOA/6ro6hEB3Ljw/s400/20100716_002.jpg" /><img style="vertical-align:top;" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_4H2GTEd_O_8/TEMIxswfXXI/AAAAAAAAAOM/qVBi6ioIBCI/s400/20100716_001.jpg" /></div>

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Wine for Ubuntu Users

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 27, 21, 34, 29)

<h2> Why are Linux Users Software Pirates?</h2> <p> In one sentence: <strong>Linux users are software pirates, because they don&#39;t pay for their software. Period!</strong></p> <p> <em>We all talk about the awesomeness of&nbsp;</em> <a href="http://www.linux.com" target="_blank" title="Linux">Linux</a>, <a href="http://ubuntu.com" target="_blank" title="Ubuntu">Ubuntu</a> and <a href="http://www.fsf.org/" target="_blank" title="Open Source Software">Open-Source-Software</a>, but who of us is willing to pay for OSS? <strong>Nobody!</strong> Everything has to be free of charge. <strong>But Linux and OSS is about freedom, not free beer!</strong> We, who want everything for free, aren&#39;t any better than those who illegally leach software and games.</p> <h2> Why this is a fucking problem!</h2> <p> Software for Linux sucks!</p> <p> <strong>Tell me about one high-end graphic suite, tell me about one state of the art game, tell me about one top business software!</strong></p>

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Linux Users Are Software Pirates

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 26, 22, 37, 49)

<p>For all who doesn't know: the<a href="http://web2py.com" title="Open Source Python Webdevelopment Framework">web2py</a> is free now.</p> <p> A great move by Massimo!</p> <p><a href="http://web2py.com/book" title="The Official web2py Book">The Official web2py Book</a></p>

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web2py book now free

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 26, 22, 33, 4)

Izo shows an awesome Nautilus mock-up in his blog: <br />I hope the Gnome team is considering his ideas. Thanks Izo!<br /><img src="http://www.design-by-izo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/new-nautilus_mockup.png" alt="Nautilus Mockup by Izo" style="width:400px"/><br /><a href="http://www.design-by-izo.com/2010/02/27/deconstructing-nautilus-and-rebuilding-it-better/comment-page-2/#comment-100">Design By Izo | The online showcase of Ian Cylkowski</a><br /><blockquote></blockquote>

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That's the way an file manager should look like!

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 26, 22, 19, 25)

<p> Most of us have trouble to learn vocabulary, technical terms or facts. But why is that? Becauese we don&#39;t repeat things we learned often.</p> <h3> Mnemosyne helps</h3> <p> At that point vomes <a href="http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/">Mnemosyne</a> to the game. Mnemosyne works like an intelligent vocabulary trainer. Who knows what to repeat when you should repeat it.</p> <p> If you want to memorize something Mnemosyne is your perfect match. For example add some vovabulary. Mnemosyne will test you on that words and you will have to grade your answer. Mnemosyne will then try to estimate the next time it test you on that words.</p> <h3> Tipps</h3> <p> I use Mnemosyne to:</p> <ul> <li> learn Englisch words that I don&#39;t know, when I&#39;m on the internet</li> <li> memorize facts from a textbook.</li> </ul> <h3> Download</h3> <p> For installation on Ubuntu and other Debian based OS klick on that button:</p> <p> <a href="apt://mnemosyne" title="Mnemosyne installieren"><img alt="Installbutton Mnemosyne" src="http://rockiger.com/files/Installnow_button_mnemosyne.png" /></a><a> </a></p>

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The perfect vocabulary trainer

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 26, 22, 13, 29)

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Microsoft fears Linux more than Apple

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 25, 22, 51, 8)

<p> Today I want to show you a tool that will raise your presentation power and makes you faster getting what you want. <a href="http://impressive.sourceforge.net/">Impressive</a> shows presentations, saved as pdf , with tasty animations between slides. Impressive has a lot of additional functions. Two highlights are:</p> <h3> 1. Overview Function:</h3> <p> The overview makes it easy to jump back to a certain slide after the presentation. You just hit the &lt;Tab&gt;-key and you see an overview of all the slides of the presentation. Now you choose the desired slide via mouse or arrow key and hit &lt;Enter&gt;.</p> <p> <img src="http://impressive.sourceforge.net/oview.png" /></p> <h3> 2. Highlight Function:</h3> <p> If you want to highlight a certain part on a slide, you can paint a rectangle with your mouse and this part will be highlighted.</p> <p> <img src="http://impressive.sourceforge.net/hlbox.png" /></p> <p> Impressive has a ton of other features that you can read about in the included demo presentation.</p>

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Faster with Ubuntu Part 4: Impressive

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 25, 22, 43, 35)

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How To Learn Programming And Which Programming Language To Choose?

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 25, 22, 39, 50)

<p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/marco.laspe/SPu2gVlbowI/AAAAAAAAAR4/mKWt8akUIO0/s320/ghotkey.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right;" /> This is a little Python program I wrote. It lets you set the 12 Metacity (the gnome window manager) hotkeys for any application you like. Set any command you like in the left entry field of a row and the corresponding hotkey in the right entryfield. The format for the hotkeys looks like &quot;&lt;Control&gt;a&quot; or &quot;&lt;Shift&gt;&lt;Alt&gt;F1&quot;. The parser is fairly liberal and allows lower or upper case, and also abbreviations such as &quot;&lt;Ctl&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;Ctrl&gt;&quot;. If you set the option to the special string &quot;disabled&quot;, then there will be no keybinding for this action.</p> <p> <b>Download ghotkey and rock Ubuntu today. <b>Download:</b> <a href="http://rockiger.googlecode.com/files/ghotkey-0.1.tar.gz">ghotkey-0.1.tar.gz</a></b></p>

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ghotkey - Set Hotkeys in gnome easily

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 25, 22, 34, 44)

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Faster Ubuntu Part 3: Parcellite

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 25, 22, 32, 41)

<p>This is a new version of my Lastdocs plugin for gEdit. I improved the performance a bit.The Lastdocs plugin exposes a simple dialog that shows you the last opened files which can be edited with gEdit. It is inspired by <a href="http://scribes.sourceforge.net/">Scribes</a> a very promising editor that is in an early development stage.</p> <h2>What is the advantage over the recent files menu entry?</h2> <p>The the Lastdocs plugin is better suited to my workflow. I just press &lt;Ctrl&gt;&lt;Shift&gt;&lt;o&gt;,</p><p><img src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K9MShji5iNI/R83s9-cWzrI/AAAAAAAAABM/hm5NqgPGpM0/s320/Lastdocs-plugin.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174052096396676786" /></p><p>the Lastdocs dialog pops up and I can use the arrow keys to choose a file. There doesn't need any mouse action to be involved.</p> <h2>How can I download the plugin?</h2> <p>Download the following file:</p> <div><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/ecomputicus/Home/gedit-plugins/lastdocs-0.1.tar.gz">lastdocs-0.1.tar.gz</a></div> <p>Unpack it and put the files in</p>

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Lastdocs Plugin For gEdit

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 25, 21, 26, 46)

<p> <a href="http://rockiger.com/de/content/schneller-mit-ubuntu-teil-1-gnome-do">In the first installation</a> of this series I told you, that I think that the command line is the second important tool, to get you faster with your Ubuntu usage. Actually the command line is the most powerful toy you can use in the Linux world. Today I want to show a terminal emulator that has its root in the ego-shooter Doom. Most Ubuntu-Rockstars have always a terminal window opened, that enables them to punch in some useful and time saving commands. The drawback of this method is that the terminal is just another application on the desktop and could be hidden behind some different app or could be minimized, that you have activate it via the window list. An nice alternative is <a href="http://www.guake-terminal.org/project">Guake</a>.</p> <h2> Install It</h2> <p> To install Guake you have to download <a href="http://www.guake-terminal.org/releases/0.3.1/">this package</a> from their website and then install it via the Gedebi installer. As with <a href="http://rockiger.com/de/content/schneller-mit-ubuntu-teil-1-gnome-do">Gnome-Do</a> you should add Guake to your autostart list. After you installed Guake you should hit the systray icon with your right mouse button and choose preference. In the preferences dialog you should set the hotkey for the roll down. I use the Menu-key, because I have no further use for it.</p>

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Faster Ubuntu Part2: Guake

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 25, 21, 24, 25)

<p><img src="http://rockiger.com/files/lund.png" style="float:right"><a href="http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/01/14/as-raw-as-it-gets-startup-legend-lund-bankrupt"/>Morten Lund, one of the founders of Skype, is broke, because his free newspaper in Copenhagen is heavily indebted.</a> So far so good, a lot of people loose a lot of money these days, for instance Adolf Merkle.</p> <p>It is remarkable that Lund does not begin to whine. Instead he is saying: Fuck, but I'll be back even stronger. This man got balls. I would call this The Terminator Strategie. Respekt.</p>

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Morten Lund broke

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 25, 19, 14, 52)

<p> There is a lot buzz about Chrome - Googles new Web browser. What I don&#39;t understand is why is there so much buzz about a piece of software. When a new version of Opera is released, in my opinion the most innovative browser of the last years, almost nobody cares. Now Google releases a browser and everybody is going nuts. I want to comment on some statements about Chrome (This will not be technical):</p> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/meet-chrome-googles-windows-killer/">Chrome is a Windows killer</a>: Despite the fact that I don&#39;t think the people at Google hate Microsoft, I think Chrome is just a new browser that gives users more opportunities. Firefox did not kill Microsoft either. Just to have a really powerful JavaScript engine doesn&#39;t make the choice of the OS redundant. By the way Microsoft is a dying giant anyway.</p> </li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/09/01/google-browser-is-real-another-win-for-webkit/">Google wants a big chunk of the mobile browser market</a>: I think Google&#39;s growth strategy heavily relies on the mobile browser market. As a result for them it is very important that people have easy access to the mobile web and a good experience using it. Therefore a nice integration between Chrome on the desktop and Android/mobile Chrome would be helpful.</p>

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Thoughts About Chrome

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 25, 19, 9, 23)

<p> <b>Update: <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/sad-day-for-microsoft-5000-laid-off-earnings-and-revenues-down/">Sad Day For Microsoft: 5,000 Laid Off, Earnings And Revenues Down</a></b></p> <p> I said in my <a href="http://rockiger.com/en/content/thoughts-about-chrome">thoughts about Google&#39;s Chrome</a> that I think Microsoft is a dying giant. I feel that I should justify such a bold statement.</p> <p> First I want to mention that I see the above statement in the long-term. Of course Microsoft won&#39;t vanish tomorrow.</p> <p> Here are my main reasons for my claim:</p> <ul> <li> <p> Microsoft is relying an cash-cows and so can&#39;t change</p> </li> <li> <p> Microsoft is not able to be successful in new fields</p> </li> <li> <p> Microsoft&#39;s competitors have adopted a robuster business model</p> </li> </ul> <p> The problem for Microsoft with their cash-cows is that they can&#39;t pursue new application and business models that endanger their existing software like Office or Windows. The Web versions of their office suite for example is very restricted that it does not cannibalize the original. Their competitors, like Google, don&#39;t have this handicap.</p>

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Why Microsoft Is A Dying Giant.

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 25, 19, 8, 6)

<p> I want to write a little series about how I use Ubuntu and what I got used to speed up my work with Ubuntu. This article is written for <a href="http://www.zmogo.com/gear/the-new-year-linux-resolution-day-7-the-stunning-conclusion/">people who have just migrated to Ubuntu or Linux</a> and as well for more experienced users. These series is based on my personal experience. The first episode will be about <a href="http://do.davebsd.com/">Gnome-Do</a>. Gnome-Do speeds up my work like no second application. At most the command line is as useful for me.</p> <h2> Install It</h2> <p> First you have to install Gnome-Do. First you have to add <code>## gnome-do deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ubuntu hardy main</code> to your &quot;/etc/apt/sources.list&quot;. After that you type in the commandline: <code>sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install gnome-do gnome-do-plugins</code></p> <h2> Use It</h2> <p> <img src="http://rockiger.com/files/ubuntu_produktivitaet_gnome_do.png" /> To open the folder &quot;Businessplan&quot; (screenshot) on my computer I just have to press WIN+Space, type &quot;bus&quot; and then hit Enter. Boom, the folder opens immediately. The same way you can start programs, twitter, create <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/">Tomboy-Notes</a> and much more. Best you add Gnome-Do to your autostart today. <a href="http://do.davebsd.com/wiki">Discover the opportunities and rock Ubuntu today.</a></p>

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Faster Ubuntu Part 1: Gnome-Do

datetime.datetime(2010, 7, 25, 19, 0, 22)

<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/ClDZpRuNVqA?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/ClDZpRuNVqA?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></object> <h2> What&#39;s Rockiger?</h2> <p> Rockiger is the idea to give <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html">Hackers and Geeks</a> an instrument they can play with. A Rockiger Laptop should be loved by its owner as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix">Jimi</a> loved his guitar. As you know nothing works without love. To build such a laptop while having a lot of fun on this magic carpet ride is the declared goal of Rockiger.</p> <h2> Who is Rockiger?</h2> <p> At the moment Rockiger consist of an idea, the will to change something and <a href="http://de-de.facebook.com/people/Marco-Laspe/668200532">myself</a>. My name is Marco Laspe. I live in Germany in a city called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesbaden">Wiesbaden</a>. I like to play tennis, love 80s Metal and would like to get new dog. Besides I want to change the world and this is the beginning.</p>

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