Gnome uses Nautilus as it’s file manager and ultimately the desktop manager. And Ubuntu uses Gnome. I like a clean desktop. But every time I mount a drive, a new icon is added to my desktop. This just will not do. It seems that on at least one of my [...]

The latest Ubuntu 8.04 just shipped with Firefox 3 beta. It has disabled many of my beloved plugins. Completely by accident I ran across a workaround for broken firebug and thought this was a workable solution. Other than the time involved in modifying all my plugins and reinstalling them in all of [...]

A little over 2 weeks ago I brought you Growl for Linux. I still think it’s pretty slick.
For those that know I’m a command line junkie but has to co-exist in a desktop world I have managed to get my favorite irc client to report highlights to the desktop using Mumbles.
To make this all possible [...]

It’s handy, fast, and convienient to you mysql on the command line.
Lately, what I’ve been using it most for is to back up and restore
databases. I don’t do it often enough to have the commands committed to
memory, but everytime I need it I go searching for it again. Rather
than trying to find my [...]

Something to remind you what is is to be a man, in case you’ve forgotten.  Thanks, honey for the Monday morning laugh.