Monthly Archives: December 2008
A Quick Review of Evolution for Windows
At work, we’ve talked about replacing Outlook with something more free. A quick google revealed that Evolution, the PIM program that ships with Gnome, has been ported to Windows. We need something that will work with Exchange without any loss of features. Unfortunately, Evolution for Windows is currently going to fit the bill–performance was slow. When [...]
Obscure Font Collection
Here’s an interesting collection of obscure fonts. There’s three pages: Page 1: Fantasy and Occult Symbols Page 2: Decorative Historical Scripts Page 3: SciFi Fonts For the most part, these are useless for everyday typesetting. But they’re the kind of thing that just might come in handy when you really need a good Viking font. They’re equal parts [...]
Start Firefox on Server with X Forwarding
Occasionally, I want to run firefox on the server from my laptop. With ssh and X forwarding, I can run just about any GUI program on the server and have it show up on laptop screen pretty easily. But when I try to run firefox from a terminal, it always starts my local, laptop version. To solve the problem, I have [...]
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Truly Awesome Conky
I’ve posted awesome Conky scripts in the past. But today, I stumbled onto the Crunchbang forums and found their Conky thread. There’s some mega awesome Conkys in there, particularly the one by Fab, from the Linux Outlaws Podcast (pretty much the only podcast I listen to nowadays). So I promptly stole Fab’s script and started to use it. I ended [...]
Automount ssh Drives on Boot
I use ssh to mount my home server (where I keep all my media) on my laptop. it’s secure and not wonky like samba. Unfortunately, up to this point, I had to mount the drive by hand. My wireless network connection doesn’t usually connect till after I boot (which is when my drives are mounted). I wrote a script that [...]
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How to Disable 000webhost Analytics Code
000webhost.com gives out free webhosting. This is good. It’s 100% free hosting, without any real strings attached. Except that they put a little javascript tracker on your page, so they track what your visitors are doing. I think this is a little creepy, but fair–they’re giving out free hosting. Allowing them to track stuff in the background sounds [...]
Making Coffee In A Siphon Coffee Maker