A while ago I mentioned that I installed Suse on a separate partition on my laptop. My intentions were to give it a test drive and then use hat partition to do the same for some other distributions. Well, last night I finally got off my rhump and tried Gos 3. I have to say […]
I keep forgetting to publish this post, so I had better do it now before I forget again 🙂 Many of you know that I dig using (al)pine for reading my email. This is especially true on my Acer Aspire One netbook. I like to have fast access to my email and save space on […]
Yesterday, a buddy and fellow podcaster, Dave Yates emailed a bunch of people, myself included, about an idea he had. His idea was to have a “planet” for the podcasters. A “planet” for those uninitiated is an aggregated weblog/feed where many people’s separate content is merged together in one place for convenience sake (mostly). Everyone […]
Just saw this article about Mark Hoekstra of Geek Technique. Aparently, Mark, who just turned 34 recently, suffered a heart attack and passed away this morning. I have long enjoyed being a reader of Mark’s blog. His hacks, projects and love of old cool hardware have been a source of interest for not only me, […]
A good while ago I remember voicing my opinion on the show about those new Netbooks, the sub-compact notebooks/laptops that everyone was buying. It was my opinion that they were underpowered and pricey for what they actually offered. After all, why buy a mini notebook when you can get a fairly good regular notebook for […]
Yes, I know, It’s about time. Last night I finally got around to upgrading my Ubuntu install on my mail workstation at home from 7.10 to 8.04. Well, I shouldn’t say upgraded, because it was a fresh install. I used the default graphical install, which basically means that the new install took a long time. […]
I do a fair bit of LAMP programming at work and one of the tools I hold absolutely invaluable in this regard is HTML Validator. This handy-dandy little program is a Firefox Extension that is based on HTML Tidy and does w3c html validation. Just right click on the website and pick “view page source” […]
There are a couple online applications I use often and I thought I would share how to make them just a little more productive. I use Google Calendars and I also use Ta-Da Lists. These just help me keep things organized and with a lot of things happening during the day, being organized sure can […]
Isn’t it amazing the level of customer service you get these days? Here’s a no brainer: Computer geeks get irritated when they do not receive the internet access they are paying for. They get even more frustrated when your service policy is “it’s not my problem”. Thus has continually been my experience with comcast. Don’t […]
Today I received an email asking for my support of a petition for Google to provide a way to backup your email. A way to download an archive of your emails so you can keep them on a cd or wherever. This petition is at: http://computeruser.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/gmail-please-let-me-back-up-my-email/ I thought that sounded like a really good idea. […]