Category: Tech
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Why I Love *nix
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This image says a lot about Windows. I got it while trying to accomplish something at work today, due to no prompting of my own. Notice that the “no” option is grayed out. What the hell am I supposed to do here? I wound up hiding the thing as low as I could on the…
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So far so good
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I’ve had good luck with gnome so far. imwheel takes care of nautilus, and here are some notes for the record: nautilus audio previews need sox compiled with mad for mp3 support (the ‘mad’ USE flag on Gentoo gnome’s recommendation to use mail-notification wasn’t the best, imho – gnubiff is much better. And for the…
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Gnome – can it last?
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Every time a new GNOME release comes out, I’m tempted, and I usually wind up installing the damn thing. I’ve always been disappointed – there are usually enough crash bugs and annoyances that I go right back to a light WM. Not to allow any exceptions, I installed gnome 2.10 yesterday and have been giving…
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Raggle 0.4
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In case you haven’t heard of raggle, it’s a console/web RSS reader written in ruby and ncurses by Paul Duncan. If you’re in the market for a console RSS reader (perhaps to read halffull) it’s a great choice. 0.4, after agonizing delay, was released today. I contributed a lot of the new features and bugfixes,…
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1111111111
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If pi day wasn’t geeky enough for you, it’s now time to party for 1111111111! That’s right, it has officially been 1111111111 seconds since the Unix epoch. As of right…… now! (8:58:31 pm EST) Congratulations Unix! You’ve brought so much joy into the lives of sysadmins everywhere. (we seriously need more posters here to…
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Kubrick sucks.
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Kubrick sucks. No, not the filmmaker, the WordPress template. Blasphemy, I know. You see it everywhere on the web nowadays, partly because of the popularity of WordPress 1.5 and partly because most people don’t change from the default template. I’m not saying the old default was anything to look at, but Kubrick grates on my…
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Gmail Invites
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No, I’m not going to say “just register on the site, send me $8.95, and your firstborn, and you’ll get a gmail invite!” We’ve all seen that one. (Though if you do still need one, check isnoop.) I’m just curious about how many invites people have given away. Ever since Google has been giving 50…
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Party Like It’s 1111111111
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On Thursday, March 17, 2005, at 8:58:31 pm EST it will officially be 1111111111 seconds since the Unix epoch. I propose we throw a huge party for geeks everywhere, and celebrate the Unix motto: Do one thing and do it well – party!
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Upgrading to WP 1.5
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I’m going to start working on upgrading the site to WordPress 1.5. I’ve made a lot of personal changes to the codebase that don’t particularly fit into a plugin, so I’m going to hope I can reasonably manage all the hand-merging. One thing I definitely do not want to do is leave the site in…
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