January 2010
53 posts
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VMware Server 2.0.2 and Firefox
VMware Server Console plugin for Firefox does not work with firefox 3.6.x I hope that saves an hour of your day as well.
ShareFire →
I’ve had no luck with rss readers native to linux. If anyone has any suggestions feel free, cause this is the best I’ve found.
Getting Back to a Pure Gnome on Ubuntu →
Awesome. Gives you the apt line you need to get rid of all KDE components.
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Turbo Tax is a Dick
Turbo tax tries to screw you out of the $19.95 e-file fee for state taxes. Just mail your state taxes in, only e-file federal. The only downside is TurboTax makes it difficult to do it. This is how you make it work:
E-file federal don’t file State
Once complete click on Print & File again
On the first page it will ask if you want to e-file federal, choose file by mail
The next screen...
Tools - Offensive-security.com →
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Where's the Beef? Portland's Best Westside Happy... →
Making me hungry. Stupid Diet
High and low, real and tiny →
The fact that he has so radically rethought author ship is actually super-interesting. It makes me think of some of these modern artists (Jeff Koons, I think; definitely Takashi Murakami) who operate entire, like, production facilities. They delegate a lot of the work of actu ally fabricating their stuff to other people.
I wonder if there’s a way to take some of that spirit—the notion that...
Install Adobe AIR Linux 1.5 on 64-bit Linux... →
Wow, this is way easier to get working on 64-bit than flash. Way to suck anyway adobe.
Jive Turkey
So I plan on posting a little roundup of my first week at work. But it’s safe to say it’s going pretty well and I’m enjoying it quite a bit. Also there are a ton of Thai places around the office.
For anyone intersted I found a couple flickr sets of the office. Jive is located in the old federal reserve building (there is a GIANT vault in the basement) that’s why they call...
Snapsort →
Let’s you compare and choose camera’s. Nice tool.
In the sea of negativity that my blog sometimes... →
Nice writeup on drobo being a superhero.
FOSSCasts - Episode 19 -Using the Mutt Email... →
Awesome.
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Oregon State University Open Source Lab using... →
Lance Albertson, architect and systems administrator at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab uses a sys admin staff of 18-21 year old undergrads to manage servers for some high profile open source projects (Linux Master Kernel, Linux Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, and Drupal to name a few). In this Q&A, Albertson talks about the challenges of using young sys admins and the...
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Applications I Use on OSX →
I’ve been keeping this reasonably up to date. Again due to the migration that’s coming up I wanted to make sure it’s complete. Any apps I should be using?
The Nation: The Migration Back To Local Banks :... →
I can’t get behind this enough. I just did this earlier this week. If the government won’t stop organizations from getting to big to fail we can.
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Firefox Addons
So I’m getting ready to format and reinstall from scratch on my macbook. I’m doing a little do diligence for keeping track of some of the crap I always forget to save. Here is a list of my current firefox extensions.
PermaTabs :: Add-ons for Firefox
InvisibleHand :: Add-ons for Firefox
Greasemonkey :: Add-ons for Firefox
Firebug :: Add-ons for Firefox
FaviconizeTab :: Add-ons...
Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting | 6 Tips For... →
Decent tips for wordpress on rackspace. I’ll have to go through and make sure I’m following them for my sites.
Palm’s Verizon WebOS Phones Will Feature Built-In... →
Not just tethering, but tethering for up to five clients — pretty much like having a built-in Mi-Fi. Must be nice to be on Verizon.
Meanwhile, over in AT&T’s shantytown, still no iPhone tethering at all.
[via Daring Fireball]
This is enough to make me seriously consider one of these things.
Shakespeare does The Big Lebowski →
WALTER Nihilists! I am beshrewn. Say what thou wilt Of fascist tenets, Knave; it seeks to stand Philosophy and politic, not void. And let it noted be that wildlife kept, Amphibious rodent, in domestic walls, Is retrograde to right and civil laws.
This is epic.
visualvm: Home →
All in One Java Troubleshooting tool. It looks cool.
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem...”
– Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Victorian Infographics - a set on Flickr →
Data visualizations from the Victorian period. Weird.
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Tagging Books →
Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags […] to the books they read. […] To do this, the library didn’t create a complicated computer system or send people online. Instead, they installed more book drops and return shelves, labeled with different descriptors like “boring,” “great for kids,” “funny,” etc.
Awesome and...
“Google is now in the phone business. It is competing with phone makers,...”
– Lyons, on Nexus One (via newsweek)
Dead on. I’m totally fine with it if it makes my life better. Not sure that this does. Bet it ruined a lot of peoples day though.
“It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of...”
– Elwood, The Blues Brothers
“Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!”
– Vizzini, The Princess Bride
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How to: Delete all photos off an iPhone by Colin... →
I am so happy to find this. There are may times I’ve wanted to delete photos after an import but clicked the wrong button.
Setting up FTPS using vsftpd for Wordpress plugins... →
I dislike Wordpress’s mechnism for updates. It works but I wish it used sftp instead of ftps. This puts together the most secure way to run ftps through vsftpd.
