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One Keyboard One Mouse Many Computers

Synergy is just too cool.  This is the kind of software that should just be implemented onto evey networked computer by default.  It gives you the ability to have control over as many networked computers as necessary using only one keyboard and one mouse.  Of course, you need a monitor on every computer that will [...]

Where Art Thou GNOME 3.0?

This is somewhat of a personal pet peeve more than anything. In fact, I’d place this right under the ‘Rant’ category if I had one. My issue is all about when GNOME 3.0 is going to get released, if ever.
First off, let me mention that I prefer Fluxbox and Blackbox to any window [...]

Psi, Gmail and Jabber

If I am beating this topic into the ground, so be it. Sometimes, you just need to beat a dead horse, regardless.
Due to the decision of switching to Jabber exclusively, I am on the lookout for a good Jabber client for Linux. In fact, a cross-platform client for Windows and Mac OS X [...]

Hiccups

I hate ‘em.  Nothing is worse than getting the hiccups.  Escpecially when they are very violent and seem to last for a long time.  Well, yesterday, I just got a major hiccup, and this one is going to last for a long time.
Two days ago, I posted about Open Discussion Day, and how I will [...]

Open Discussion Day

May 19th is unofficially becoming a very important day in instant messaging. It is becoming the day that legacy protocols are dropped, such as Yahoo, MSN, AIM and ICQ, and only open IM protocols are used, such as Jabber.
Currently, I use all protocols. I have for a long time, and I have many [...]

Gmail-notify as an Example of the Power of Open Source Software

The example I am about to expense is why Open Source Software (OSS) is so powerful.
A friend of mine was reading my blog, and cheking out my Firefox extension list (that I still need to update badly). He noticed that I use the gmail notifier extension for Firefox rather than the gmail-notify package for [...]