Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Charter Internet Connection Flaking

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

All day today my internet connection has been flaking out. I noticed it when I was trying to stream some music. It was choppy. I figured it was the server I was streaming from. So I tried another one, same result. I knew something was up when I tried to [...]

Exposing passwords behind the asterisk

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Occasionally I need to know what password I have saved. In FF You have to go through a series of dialogs in the preferences. A DKN uses Unhide Passwords (I believe, he’ll correct me if I’m wrong), which was interesting one afternoon when the boss wanted to log into a site and was [...]

Remove icons from Gnome Desktop

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

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 [...]

Firefox 3 Beta Broken Plugins

Monday, April 28th, 2008

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 [...]

Get Growl Like notifications on Linux for irssi using mumbles

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

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 [...]


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