Spotify on Linux problems?
Dear lazyweb, does anyone else find that Spotify mysteriously hangs at the "logging in" stage when run under Wine? This suddenly happend on both my Linux box...
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On leaving Slicehost
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Windows XP loses its crown
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Random summary of stuff
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Squeezing a quart of apps into a pint-pot server
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OpenID
You can now sign in to leave comments here (yes, dear readers, both of you!) - using an OpenID if you have one, and in related news, I've got m'self a shiny ...
The beginning of the end of an era
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Model inheritance in Django
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