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Evolution e-mail client & gnome-keyring
Recent updates on Debian for Novell’s (formerly Ximian’s) Evolution E-mail programme added support for gnome-keyring. When you start Evolution for the 1st time after the recent updates Evolution will...
View ArticleR&B, Jazz, Motown in Toronto
Was up in Toronto for a couple of days visiting family. On Friday night a couple of us went to Zemra a bar/cafe around the corner for a drink, and there was a pretty decent band & singer playing....
View ArticleGnome theme problems.
Wow, major problems with Gnome and trying to change themes. Ended up the issue was some weird conflict with the gtk-qt-engine package. A simple: apt-get remove –purge gtk-qt-engine solved the problem....
View ArticleTango Theme for N73
Neat, a Tango theme for my N73 Nokia Mobile phone! http://wiki.sukimashita.com/Tango_Symbian60_Theme Grab the Symbian60 3rd Edition (Regular, FP1) one for the N73.
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kde4 and ubuntu
Follow the instructions at the link below to install KDE 4 for Ubuntu: http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.php Screenshots follow! KDE 4′s Show Desktop Grid, use Ctrl-F8: Pick running app, use...
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Time to upgrade my Internet connection!
This is using Verizon 1.5Mbps/384Kbps DSL service:
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connection speed!
That’s better! And on Feb 9th: Looks like fairly consistent speeds, not quiet 3mb/s download but pretty close.
View ArticleConfused about PSU’s?
Confused about power supplies for motherboards? Me too. This will help: http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2003/08/30/power-supplies-become-increasingly-expensive ATX = 20 pin plug, your...
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kde4 & debian!
Works great! Following the instructions here: http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html However, if you install the KDE4 kdeartwork package, any remaining kde3 packages, such as k3b &...
View ArticleWaving frog waves for the last time
Sad: The Panamanian golden frog communicates with other frogs by semaphore in the form of gentle hand waves. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7219803.stm What’s is amazing is that they took...
View ArticleDell BIOS updates using Linux
Dell provides Ubuntu support for updating the BIOS of Dell systems: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/05/37446.aspx … be sure the Universe section is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, then...
View ArticleWar
Is always bad. And this is a very sad, graphic picture: http://www.photojournalism.org
View ArticleHow’s Eddie?
Eddie’s fecking dead because he was illegal alien and was scared to go to hospital: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/31/a_toast_to_an_irishman/ This just feckin’ sucks: Eddie died in...
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Pollution in the World’s Oceans
Amazing article about the extent of pollution in the world’s oceans: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean30jul30,0,6670018,full.story The fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy...
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Links
Different things that caught by eye today. The worst foods to eat in America (via Boing-boing): http://www.menshealth.com/20worst The worst being fries with cheese and ranch dressing from a nation...
View ArticleAdobe Air for Linux?
A friend forwarded the e-mail below to me. It looks like there is a beta or prerelease of the Linux version of Adobe Air available. However, poking around Adobe’s site I can’t any references to this...
View ArticleDrugs in Wexford
Interesting editoral on RTE about heroin use in Wexford (Ireland) and the lack of attention it’s getting from the Government. Seems to me (many) politicians wait until things reach crisis point before...
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