To paraphrase a line from The Life of Brian, what CBS blatantly refuses to realize is that it’s the advertisers who’re the problem. Treating viewers like we’re the problem is only going to accelerate the demise of the already outdated broadcast TV model. Whining about it on the part of execs, lawyers, et al is [...]
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I came here to post something and got sidetracked by the news of the new WordPress release. I think it’s way cool that they decided to honor The Sound with the name of this one. Makes me want to get my car stereo situation fixed.
My favorite IM client, recently renamed to Pidgin, also recently released a new beta version that diverges significantly from previous behavior and appearance. I get the impression, looking at their site, that this is to be treated as a near-release candidate. One of the devs points out in his blog that there’s a current hot [...]
untitled by shadestalker. Taken at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. I use this one as my desktop background occasionally.
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tasty beverage by shadestalker. A test post directly from Flickr. Nothing to see here… except one of the cooler photos I’ve taken.
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If you’re forced to work around copy and paste limitations in Gnome with certain X11 applications (xterm!), I can heartily recommend leafpad over gedit. It’s much lighter and quicker to start.
From brookenovak‘s Flickr stream.
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Dear lazyweb, The PS/2 keyboard port decided it was done being useful when I powered on my desktop this morning. After being taken to the cleaners by Best Buy (misnomer, ha!) for a PS/2 -> USB adapter, I’m back up and working. Should I worry about other failures following close on this one? I’m not [...]
The new version of beryl, a compositing X11 window manager, was released today. Hurray for the eye candy, and some cool usability in the bargain! I especially like Scale (think Mac’s Expose) and translucency with blur for helping find or keep track of open windows. Here’s one of the better videos demonstrating some real world [...]
Are you wondering why your XP Home or other Windows system seems to have missed the update for DST changes? I was, until I went to the Windows Update site and checked what I was missing. I don’t have automatic updates enabled, to prevent Microsoft pushing their pet projects like IE7 on me as “critical” [...]
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