Monthly Archives: May 2009
Solve Video Flicker on Jaunty with ATI X1250
I have a fairly new Acer Extensa 4420 that I run Linux on. The new version of Ubuntu, Jaunty, runs really well, except that the default ATI driver for my Radeon X1250 card gives me weird flickering and poor performance. This is because ATI decided to drop support (ie. stop updating drivers) for these cards. This is [...]
Tree Style Tabs — a follow up
A little while ago, I blogged about how I was going to try out Tree Style Tabs for Firefox on my laptop. It offers two interesting things: Grouped, hierarchical tabs Moving the tab bar to the side of the screen. I was particularly interested in the latter–on my 14″ widescreen laptop screen, I’m always looking for ways to [...]
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Why KDE4 Is Cool: Folderview
I’ve always thought KDE4 was pretty cool, particularly the idea of the folderview widget which lets you put a thing on your desktop which shows all the files you have in a particular folder. This is what most people’s desktops do ordinarily, except that you’re stuck with only one folder. Unfortunately, every time I’ve tried Kubuntu, they’ve [...]
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How to Make a DIY Coffee Degassing Canister for Free
UPDATE (8÷19÷10) this design might be great for degassing, but it also has the unfortunate effect of making coffee taste like superglue. I’ve posted an improved DIY coffee degassing cannister here. If you roast your own coffee, you know you’re supposed to let your coffee degas for a few days after roasting. But finding a good one-way [...]
A Review of Ryan J. Lane’s Conversations of The Leisured
I downloaded Ryan J. Lane’s new album Conversations of The Leisured (or at least the part of it that he posted on noisetrade) recently. It’s really good. It’s backed with catchy beats with this obscure lo-fi folksy thing on top of it, giving it a sort of Sufjan Stevens feel. Bizarrely, there’s some They Might Be [...]
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Free Cool Ubuntu Stickers from System76
Ok, this is cool. If you send System76 an SASE, they’ll send you some really cool Ubuntu stickers for your laptop: Here’s the address: System76, Inc. (Free Stickers)1582 S. Parker Rd. Ste. 310Denver, Colorado 80231
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A Review of David Achata’s Psalms By David
I downloaded David Achata’s album Psalms by David from noisetrade.com the other day. I didn’t really notice the title at the time, but it’s pretty clearly “Christian Music.” Sure, the guy’s name is David, but each song is taken directly from a Psalm. In fact, the song titles are things like, “Psalm 63:1–8 NIV.” With that in [...]
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Building a TV Antenna
Ever since Fab from Linux Outlaws mentioned it on the show, I’ve been wanting to build one of these really cool, DIY TV antenna. Today, I pulled the plans for the TV antenna, picked up some Romex cable when I was at Menards and went to town. Here’s what I came up with: DIY TV antenna I definitely get better [...]
How to Configure Your System: The Command Line vs. Esoteric Dialogs