Monthly Archives: January 2007
Puppy Linux
I just booted into Puppy Linux a minute ago. As far as I can tell it’s everything Linux ought to be: tiny, light-weight and fast, but decent looking and not Windows. And free. Granted, there’s a lot I haven’t done in it yet, but I haven’t touched the command line yet. Which is saying something, [...]
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Another Reason Opera Rocks
You can change the program icon just by going into opera:config (which is a web interface for deep editing settings). In my quest for the best rss reader, I ended up getting impatient and just installed opera again, so now I have two. I made a shortcut w/ an rss icon, and now, when the [...]
Living in Decatur
I’ve been trying hard, recently, to see the poetic here in Decatur. The fact that it’s an industrial town with processing factories that make the entire town smell funky most of the time doesn’t make this particularly easy. But there’s got to be some redeeming good in all that (and of course, there is: those factories [...]
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Lost: Season 3
I, erm, taped Lost and am just now getting around to watching Season 3. I heard a lot of reports that it wasn’t any good, that they had completely jumped the shark. Here’s my thoughts: 1. It’s actually pretty dang good. I’m starting to really care about who the Others are and what their deal [...]
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Linux and Ubuntu (again)
I haven’t blogged about this much yet, I’m not sure why. But after somebody gave me a half decent machine with a decent size hard drive, and now that I’ve got high speed, I decided that I needed a media server, something I could store video on and hook up to the tv, and that [...]
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Video Tech 101, Free Color Videos
This is awesome. Seriously. Brilliant. Here’s a video telling you how to identify your graphics card. If you’ve ever been to Burger King in Mattoon, you can begin to imagine how hysterical this guy sounds. If you’ve never been there, and you’re on high speed, I highly recommend watching at least the first 30 seconds. [...]
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How To Hang A Cabinet
Our seller left us some cabinets in the garage. On the floor. I think they used to be in the kitchen. But now they’re up against the wall in the garage on the floor. One of them should be in master bathroom, as a sort of medicine cabinet of sorts. And it will be. Right after I [...]
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Wireless Working on Puppy