Okay. I have to share this. It’s just too cool not to.
All day today, I was struggling with how to enter Unicode characters in Linux. I really didn’t have any reason other than I just wanted to learn. And it didn’t make sense to me why it wasn’t easy. I [...]
Why don’t VCR’s have non-volatile RAM with a backup cell battery? What would that cost? Like $0.05?? Honestly, I don’t get it. After all these years, and the #1 problem with the VCR isn’t learning how to program it to record a TV show, which everyone’s grandma can do, but how [...]
Ubuntu Open Week is upon us. It starts today, and continues through Friday. It’s on irc.freenode.net in #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-freshers.
What is Ubuntu Open Week you ask? Ubuntu Open Week is the ability for Ubuntu users to get many of the questions that they have about Ubuntu answered. The channel is setup [...]
It’s been almost a year since I decided to begin learning the Dvorak layout, and just over six months since switching entirely. I thought I would post one last update about my progress and observations on typing with the Dvorak layout.
First, the speed. I am just a tad slower than I was when [...]
I’ve had this before on one of my previous blogs under the toponcefamily.com domain. I no longer own that domain (I let it expire, and now some “search engine” is selling it), but it was pretty cool. You could see what I was doing at anytime during the day.
Well, I set it up [...]
One of the biggest tools that I use is screen. Not only for irssi, my preferred IRC client, but for other things as well. When I show people screen, it’s funny to see the look on their face. They take a step back, and say “Wow. That’s really cool”. I [...]
First off, PortableApps Suite.
When I stumbled upon this, I was ecstatic! A complete suite of Open Source Software tools for Windows users. Even better- they run right off of your portable USB drive!
While the list of tools in the suite is young, and not extensive, it’s enough to get a serious Windows user [...]
Well, I did it. It took some time, wrenching of the teeth, and much wailing. But I did it. I am free. What did I do?
I deleted almost 30GB of downloaded MP3’s.
Yeah. It was tough, but I looked at it this way: If I am going to be very [...]
WARNING: LONG POST AHEAD.
I cannot for the life of me believe that people are gullible enough to do this. But hey, the world is made up of several people, including complete imbeciles. It’s just the lack of intelligence that gets me.
Anyway, now that I’ve gotten your attention, let’s follow a story.
Some random Ubuntu [...]
So, Google is making a lot of headway with their Jabber server. They have opened up server-to-server (s2s) functionality, and they have added the vCard avatar to the user’s account. However, they lack the rest of the XML vCard spec. This includes, but is definitely not limited to:
Full name
Nickname
Birthday
Phone #
Homepage
Email
Corporation
Department
Position
Role
Street
City
State
Postal Code
Country
About
While many [...]
Ok. This may come to most of you as “DUH”, but for me and a few helping me, we couldn’t figure it out. Consider the following Perl code:
!#/usr/bin/perl -w
open(IN, "oldfile.txt");
open(OUT, ">newfile.txt");
while(<IN>)
{
$var1=substr($_, 0, 10);
$var2=substr($_, 10, 5);
$var3=substr($_, 15, 3);
substr($_, 0, 3)=$var3;
substr($_, 3, 10)=$var1;
substr($_, 13, 5)=$var2;
print OUT $_;
}
close(IN);
close(OUT);
Fairly straight forward. Nothing fancy here. I’ve [...]
Things are going well for the Ogden Area Linux Users Group, and I thought I would post a little bit about the status of the group.
For starters, we currently have 69 members on the mailing list. This is great news, as when I moved the mailing list to Google Groups, it initially started with [...]
There’s a new planet on the block: Planet OpenSolaris. Being first exposed to Unix on a Sun Solaris, and owning a Sun Microsystems Enterprise Server a little bit ago, I am a softy for the Solaris operating system. I think it is a rock solid Unix, and their hardware even more rock [...]
Last night, the Ubuntu-Utah team met, and we had a good meeting. Tristan gave a presentation on how to utilize Ubuntu resources, and Christer talked about what it takes to be an Ubuntu member. Both presentations were exceptionally good. I want to cover what Tristan went over, namely the resources that are [...]
First the license plate, now the cell phone.
This is actually really easy. If you have T-Mobile (I know you can do it with other services too), your phone automatically has an email address. The address is in the form: <phone_number>@tmomail.net. So, if your phone number is (801) 867-5309 (that’s the number I [...]
