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Category Archives: Technology
Slight E-Mail Hiccup
Having grown more than a little bit tired of how slow Evolution is at filtering emails, I decided to try the new Thunderbird. (I say “new” because I have not used it since it was version 1.5-ish.) Unfortunately, I accidentally … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Technology
Tagged email, evolution, inbox, offline, thunderbird, wtf
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ThinkPad T500: Initial Fedora Report – Marvelous!
Well, after receiving my ThinkPad T500, I set about tweaking the pre-installed Windows Vista, and spent most of the weekend attempting to get it dual-booting Vista and Fedora nicely. For better or worse, neither Fedora’s GRUB nor Windows’ BCD bootloader … Continue reading
My First Laptop: A ThinkPad
Another summer has passed me by, and I still haven’t learned how to ride a bike nor how to swim properly. Alas, I suppose I’ll get to these eventually. I have kept one of my resolutions though. I finally splurged … Continue reading
Backup Strategies
With my primary hard drive (a three-year old WD Raptor WD740) having been on life support, so to speak, for the last 3 months, I’ve been a lot more diligent about keeping backup copies of my data. Every couple of … Continue reading
Leonidas: On the Brink of Release
With Fedora 11 (“Leonidas”) released earlier today and Rawhide looking to the future, I find myself instead looking back at what has made Leonidas such an excellent release. With over 50 new features in this release (more than any previous … Continue reading
Posted in Fedora, Politics, Technology
Tagged Fedora, leonidas, omgawsum, youdevsareawesome
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Recent Lack of Availability
Err. If you’ve tried to get in contact with me over the past week or so (email, bug report, IRC ping, et al.), please excuse my complete lack of response. Having just finished final exams, I’d been very unproductively relaxing … Continue reading
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I’m…geekin’ out!
Right, so I just got back from seeing the premier showing of the recent Star Trek film at the GardenWalk IMAX with a bunch of friends, and I’m completely geeking out. Yes, there were some plot flaws in it (such … Continue reading
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Tagged busy, Fedora, Klingon, omgawsum, star trek
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Offline After Nearly 7 Billion Rotations
(That’s slightly more rotations than there people on Earth! ) With Spring Break giving me some much-needed time off from classes, I had some time to install and test the recently-released Fedora 11 Beta. While I do think there are … Continue reading
Accidental Fixes
“If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” (Edsger W. Dijkstra) After fixing the notification-daemon bubbles (thanks, Martin!), I spent some time perusing through some of the other GConf settings … Continue reading
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Tagged bugs, gconf, irc, japanese, scim, xchat-gnome
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If a PC speaker beeps in a Fedora system and no one is around to hear it, is it still annoying?
Paul, John, and Joeren, I find that beeping so annoying that I simply eliminate that module entirely rather than disable it or blacklist it. To ensure that each new kernel update has its pcspkr module also removed, I append the … Continue reading
New Year, New Blog
Well, wwwaaayyy back in October 2007 (!), one of the reasons I citied for moving away from a self-hosted blog setup in the first place was “integration with external services.” It’s been well over one year since that time and … Continue reading