Dear KDE- It’s been nearly 4 years since I ran you last back in my SuSE days. I loved how I could configure everything under the sun with you. I could make my windows, icons, fonts, styles, and everything look and feel the way I wanted. I never really tried Gnome or other window managers [...]
There is an update with Will Norris’ WordPress OpenID plugin that is expecting fields that don’t exist in one of the OpenID tables. As such, until I can get the matter resolved, commenting via OpenID on my blog is currently disabled until further notice. Sorry for any inconvenience.
I’m currently getting tired of my theme (madcow) that I’ve been using in Irssi. It’s been my main theme since practically the day it was released, which was probably a couple years ago. It’s been good, but I’m ready for something new. So, if you use Irssi, and use a theme other than the default [...]
Tagged irssiI’m going to push some buttons with this post, and as such, I’m sure I’m going to get a lot of comments and people coming out of the woodwork telling me I’m wrong, my arguments are weak, or I just plain don’t have a clue what I’m talking about. Whatever the case, this has been [...]
I’ve been running Debian Sid on my new Lenovo Thinkpad T61 that I received about a month ago. It’s been rock solid. However, lately, aptitude update has been keeping a lot of packages back, namely X.org and OpenOffice.org. Curious why, I visited #debian, only to be told to upgrade and RTFM. Nice. So, I upgraded, [...]
I just caught up on my feeds, and read Carthik Sharma’s post, Installing Vista Fonts In Ubuntu. From a completely Free Software standpoint, I’m going to argue why you would not want to do this. First, is the license itself, which should always be looked at when dealing with fonts, media, codecs or software. These [...]
I found the absolute best way to learn the Python programming language, while at the same time, increasing deductive logic capacity and learning mathematics. The way is through Project Euler. Of course, you don’t have to use the Python language to complete the problems. You can use any language you like, or use pencil and [...]
I’m cleaning up a Windows laptop for a friend, and boy, is it infected. These being the results of running Windows Defender, LavaSoft AdAware, MacAfee Virus Scan and Spysot Search & Destroyer. Luckily, no worms. 8 trojans 144 adwares 71 spywares 39 viruses So, I couldn’t help but come up with the 10 Golden Rules [...]
Sitting in the crowd listening to our two keynotes for the Utah Open Source Conference, Matt Asay and Bruce Perens. The conference has kicked off, and looking good. Looking forward to presenting myself on Saturday.
I pulled up my Google Reader tonight to catch up on all my latest feeds, and low and behold, I notice two things right out the gate: Yes, that’s right. Search, for the first feature (welcome to the ’90s Google) and it can count past 100 (again, welcome to the ’90s). It’s about freaking time!
The following program returns True if a number is prime or False otherwise. I am proud of this code, as it implements dead code. Upon the first positive condition in the if statement nested in the while loop, the program terminates, ignoring any further code following. As far as I can tell, this is the [...]
Freenode has passed 40,000 users as of Aug 28th. This is great news. I remember joining the network around early 2001, coming on and off at various times with help of all sorts for me running Linux. Back then, I believe the numbers were around 5,000 or so. So, to see a 8 times the [...]
