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I’ve settled on KMyMoney as a capable free-as-in-freedom bookkeeping replacement. It doesn’t do everything that I was able to do in Money, but I can live with that while hoping some of my “wants” find their way in to later versions. And in the mea
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Like most of Xfce, Clipman strikes a reasonable balance between customization and responsiveness for most people, but, like wmcliphist, it is usable only in the graphical environment for which it was designed.
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In one sense, given the scope of its changes, KDE 4 succeeds remarkably well. Although it includes some inconsistencies of design, those can be addressed later. What really matters is that so many sweeping changes seem to have been added with a minimum of
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If you know people that are MST3K-curious, please let them know this– that the original cast of the show has landed here and are making a shimmery new movie riffing experience.
links for 2008-01-17
links for 2008-01-02
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The ironic thing is that a touch of stage fright can actually help you be a more effective speaker. You can use the fear of failure to promote your success, if you allow it to motivate instead of discourage you. Take-away Tips The experts offer these tips
links for 2007-12-31
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This is one of my favorite VIM plugins; It makes it extremely easy to create well-documented shell scripts. For example, a quick \ch creates a file header block including script name, description, requirements, notes, etc. muy bueno!
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Thunar uses external utilities - so called thumbnailers - to generate previews of certain files. Thunar ships with thumbnailers to generate previews of image and font files and can automatically use available GNOME thumbnailers if it was build with suppor
Acme labs
I keep forgetting to post about Acme labs, one of the coolest places on the ‘net. Like the infamous Acme corp from the Road Runner cartoons, Jef has a ton of really fun, useful and unique tools. The only difference is that the tools are all delivered via the web, instead of having to be ordered via snail mail. 
One of Acme’s top tools is thttpd, a small, super fast web server.
I happen to like some of the toys on Acme. Two of my favorites are the ACME Label Maker, which I used to create logos for my websites for a long time, and ACME License Maker, which is super-fun. I use a license plate created with the license maker on my livejournal.
Doctor Who Children in Need 2007 - Timecrash
I think that everyone hear knows how much I love Doctor Who. I absolutely adored the original, specifically when Peter Davison played The Doctor. The new Doctor Who currently has David Tennant playing the Doctor. Tennant is fantastic, too. Not as good as Christopher Eccleston before him, but still damned good.
Anyway. for this year’s BBC Children In Need special, there was a brand-new Doctor Who mini-ep showing a meeting between Tennant’s Doctor and Davison’s Doctor. “Time Crash” is magic, pure gold. It’s both a nod to the show’s history and a torch-passing for the future. It is absolutely fantastic; I cannot overstate how good it is.
Take a look at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xVT0ln8oiU
links for 2007-12-12
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Holy Crap! What a list… 49 open source projects that deserve a round of applause. I know and use a lot of them, but there’s some good stuff in there that I’ve never heard of.
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Maybe it could be easier to secure reliable VPN access for Linux users, but I tend to doubt it. Thanks to Witopia, all I would need to do is purchase a copy of personalVPN and then email the support dept for instruction on getting things setup.
Doctor Who - Time Crash
I don’t know if you’ve seen it or not, but there’s a new Doctor Who short (Time Crash) featuring Peter Davison and David Tennant. It is only 7 minutes long, but it is absolutely brilliant! It is an excellent bridge between the old and the new series, and is probably the only time we’re ever going to see a one of the old Doctors as The Doctor.
I still think that one of the Baker’s would be a great cameo in another role. I think that Colin Baker would be an awesome Professor Chronitis if they decided to take another pass at Shadra.
Futurama’s back! Bender’s Big Score
Bender’s Big Score is finally out after so many year’s wait. And I have to say that it was well worth the wait. BBS is so much fun on so many levels. There’s the sheer level of having new Futurama. There’s the brilliance of the story, which again plays with time and backstory but manages (mostly) to stay within canon. There’s the fun of seeing all of the old recurring characters worked into the story (including the Robot Devil, Elzar, Fat Tony, Robot Nixon, Zapp Branigan…). And then there’s the continual ribbing of Fox’s decision to cancel Futurama.
The only problem that I had with BBS is the continual inside ribbing at Fox. The bit in the first five minutes was brilliant, but the recurring gags overstayed their welcome. Otherwise, the story is brilliantly crafted and immensely enjoyable. Fry being clueless? Check. Leela being sexy? Check. Amy being ditzy? Check. The professor being cranky? Check. Al Gore? Bender being evil? Nudity? Aliends and time travel? Check to all!
All in all, this was fantabulous! And only three more months ’til the next movie. )
More shilling for eMusic
Seriously, I don’t get paid by eMusic to do this! But I’ve been a member of eMusic since 2002, and I have never regretted joining. Sure, it was easier to justify back when it was unlimited downloads for the monthly fee, but I never really thought that would last anyway. I love my current plan (90 downloads a month for $20 a month). And I love all of the new artists and bands that I would’ve never heard of otherwise (Calexico, Karminsky Experience, Jackopt). Including some that I should know, like The New Pornographers and The National. My music collection has grown to unmanageable levels (17,000 tracks and growing).
It is good stuff!
Wider is not necessarily better…
I tried upgrading to a new widescreen monitor. It was a 20″ widescreen monitor from Dell that receives decent reviews and has decent specs. But my current, standard aspect monitor is much bigger and nicer than I remembered. It’s a 21″ monitor, and it has a lot of niceties, such as a built-in USB 2.0 hub and a super-adjustable base. After using the widescreen for a while, I realized that the 1680×1050 resolution is not as good as the 1600×1200 that I normally run my current monitor in. Adding everything up, I realized that I wanted to stay with the monitor I have, so I gave my wife the widescreen monitor.
Eventually, I may try widescreen again. Once there’s an aspect ratio around 1900×1200 or so.
I am a big-time computer geek. I loved the Amiga when it was still viable, and I love Linux nowadays. I guess I just like superior OSs that are off the beaten path. :) I'm also a TiVo zealot, an iPod fan, and a Futurama freak.Expect to see lots on this blog, along with lots of information about Ubuntu (my distro of choice), XFCE (my desktop environment of choice) and anything else geeky that tickles my fancy. 
