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Twitter Updates for 2008-06-27

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:59:59 +0000

@deekayen AWESOME! CONGRATULATIONS MAN! Is there a doctor in the house? #
It’s official Dr. Drupal #

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-26

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:59:59 +0000

@deekayen stay focused. You can do it. Peanutbutter dissertation time. #
just installed twitter-tools http://alexking.org/projects/worpress to my WP site blog.rjmolesa.com #
@deekayen it’s my cms ;-) #

Road Rage

rjmolesa — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

30 Hornets vs 30000 bees

rjmolesa — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:51:00 +0000

My boss showed this to me today. 30 Giant Japanese Hornets attack 30,000 European Honey Bees.

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Galleries are back

rjmolesa — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:24:00 +0000

Since my original galleries were hacked, a few years back, resulting in me taking them down. I haven’t bothered to put anything back up in their place. Well, until now. I now have galleries back up. Hopefully it’ll last a while this time. This gallery software is sporting some nice new slickness. Shiny new 2.0 chrome. Hope you enjoy it.

The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed..

Beginning Beekeeping Part 2

rjmolesa — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:00:00 +0000

Today I went over to Howard’s house and he helped me get my hive together. He showed me how the hive body went together, how to square them up nice and tight. How to secure the joints with glue and nails. Then we move on the the super, then the frames, then a few good coats of paint. Howard’s a bit of a perfectionist, like me. So everything had to be just so. It was nice getting to spend some time with him and learned a bit from such a knowledgeable man.

After my hive was finished we switched the frames of bees out of his hive for the new frames in my hive. With this, I became a beekeeper.I really appreciate Howard for taking the time to ignite a new interest in me.

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Beginning Beekeeping Part 1

rjmolesa — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:00:00 +0000

I’ve been interested in beekeeping all my life, but until about a year ago I didn’t know anyone who kept bees. I’ve been attending The Wilkes County Beekeepers Club since the spring of 2007. But it wasn’t until today that I went and purchased the necessary supplies from Miller Bee Supply to begin this exciting new hobby. Howard Blackburn, a local Master Beekeeper, helped get me started. He brought over a hive of his, and told me what to purchase. Below is the list of supplies he told me to purchase. They do offer beginners kits, but this is what Howard recommeded, and I trust him.

Supplies
Item Code	Quantity	Description	Price
M342	1	Ventilated Helmut	12.75
M351	1	Square Veil	14.25
M927	1	4 x 7 SS Smoker	29.80
M315	1	Frame Grip	12.95
M314	1	Hive Tool	4.95
W920C 1-9	1	Complete Hive Commercial Grade	50.40
F515	1	8 1/2 10 Sheets	9.40
W520 1-9	1	5 11/16 Shallow Super	7.70
W503	10	5 3/8 Frames Slotted	6.80
F525	1	4 3/4 10 Sheets	5.95
M188	1	Queen Excluder Metal	7.20

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Remove icons from Gnome Desktop

rjmolesa — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:38:58 +0000

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 installations recently I was able to disable them by checking a box somewhere. For the life of me though I can not retrace my steps. Some Googling turned up this which did just what I was looking for, but my memory still fails me.


gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible false
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/computer_icon_visible false
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible false
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_visible false

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Firefox 3 Beta Broken Plugins

rjmolesa — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:02:22 +0000

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 my firefox profiles.

Then when viewing the download page for a favorite plugin I learned that I could just enter

about.config

into my address bar and

change app.update.incompatible.mode = 1

instead add new entry

extensions.checkCompatibility

set it to

false

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Get Growl Like notifications on Linux for irssi using mumbles

rjmolesa — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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 grab mumbles.pl and place it into your .irssi/scripts folder. Then symlink it in .irssi/scripts/autorun. Edit mumbles.pl to contain the machines you want to notify.

I’m looking forward to this.

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