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Category Archives: Development

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time… a long time.

17-Jul-05

Good lord I haven’t updated in eons.
Lessee… I moved to Boston. Not really BOSTON Boston, but about 40 minutes out living with some family friends. I’m happy so far with it… even though this is mostly a bedroom community and you have to drive 20 minutes to get any shopping done. But […]

Ubuntu Spacial

11-Apr-05

If you’re like me and you use Ubuntu Hoary, you’re probably confused about how spacial Nautilus isn’t so much spacial anymore, as it closes your previous folder as you browse. If you want to turn this off, do the following:

Open the GConf configuration editor (Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor).
Browse to Apps/Nautilus/Preferences, and […]

Tomboy Newness

14-Oct-04

For those of you that haven’t heard about tomboy, it’s definitely worth checking out here. It’s been all over Planet GNOME where people are singing it’s praises, but there hasn’t been a Gentoo ebuild for it. So I wrote one.
It’s available for download here. I’m still working out the kinks (can’t figure […]

Helpful Hint #24832958

05-Oct-04

In looking recently at my Epiphany browser, and being continually frustrated at how it renders a few websites/fonts just plain crappily (see this for an example), I decided to get the latest release of Firefox. In switching to Firefox, I wanted to take my Epiphany bookmarks with me. Unfortunatley, Epiphany uses RDF whilest […]

With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go

24-Sep-04

I’m home now for “fall break” (if 2 days can really count as a break). I’m hoping to get some work done on the thesis, though tomorrow I’m spending most of the day driving my sisters around: one back to college, the other to see her boyfriend. Loads of fun.
So far I’ve spent […]