The Jens Teislev Place

Following in the steps of his holiness Richard Stallman (www.stallman.org and shown in the picture below blessing a computer that is MS free) I am now in the process of liberating my computers from Microsoft and other similar virus like systems (did anyone say Adobe?).

The first step has been to substitute a few of the key systems with open source solutions.

Firstly I have substituted Internet Explorer with Mozilla Firefox and have also had a look at the Thunderbird / Lightning Internet browser from Mozilla to see if it will be able to do the job that Microsoft Outlook has been doing. Seems it will and I managed importing all contacts, appointments and e-mails from my existing Outlook system.

Then I have realized that Open Office offers a significantly better product than Microsoft Office does – at least when it comes to text editor and spread sheet calculator. Access might be better than Base, but then on the other hand when do I really need the databases I made 5 years ago? Maybe I can import them into Base before the final change-over.

As for my good old favorite Frontpage, there seems to be several solutions. One of the ones I liked was Nvu which runs on MS and Linux systems. Obviously some of my old websites gets f***ed up when they are imported, but then that is probably something I can workaround and fix. At least new websites I will develop in this system and the main Jakobs Villas website will soon be based on a php database.

As for the key problems Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop I am testing som vector graphic and raster software at present. Most likely I will end with Xara Xtreme and/or InkScape.

Then only remains to see how I get my aging Compaq Evo N800v laptop to run Ubuntu, and even more interesting how I get a mobile phone that will synchronize with my contacts.
Any ideas out there?

The house we are borrowing was starting to look a bit drab and in need of a repaint. So fortunately we found a helping Dane that was happy to do the job and risk his life )

Would probably also have been relatively unsafe to move my 100-and-something kilos up on that roof!

Maybe a new business idea?Oh and happy birtday to Sofie Amalie!! (aka Anna Moth).

The entire list of DVD’s owned by me have now been made available from this website. Chech the links area or click here: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=25053021.
Uuuh.. could spend hours with this IMDB website!

Yes.. now I am going to become rich. As you may have noticed this website is now being sponsored by Google adverts. While I will of course not ask you to click on the adwords on this website if you have no interest in the products they are advertising; I would ask you not to click on my own adverts )

Moving away from the business and IT consultancy I have been involved with for the last many years; I have now kicked off a great thing for everybody looking to enjoy the Spanish sun under controlled terms.

You should consider coming down here on a visit by renting one of the beautiful villas or apartments that we manage. Spend some time on www.jakobsvillas.com and see what we have. If you should want to book something with us put in ‘blog’ as promotion code.

Sorry, that got to sales like. Won’t happen again!