A friend had an idea, wherein people would try to mimic the expression of Donald Sutherland in this scene from Invasion of the Body Snatchers:


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Let's say you have several hundred CDs full of mp3s and/or other data, but you don't want to go searching through them all the time to find stuff. Just dump their contents into a bunch of searchable text files ( Read more... )

Apparently, setting up a dual-boot PC is truckloads easier than it used to be (at least, it's easier when you have more than one hard drive, because my system will actually ask me which drive I want to boot from). I decided to go ahead and let my system use XP again, as well as Ubuntu, for the sake of experimenting with some other Windows-based ( Read more... )

My latest obsession: PortableApps. Short version: it's a bunch of programs you can install to a USB drive (or other portable device), instead of installing to your computer - which means that you can use the same programs, and the same settings, anywhere you plug in your USB drive. I first became interested because I was curious; I pined for the ( Read more... )

Trying out at work: Launchy. First impression: Marginally useful? Configured it to include the Quick Launch folder's contents, which (frankly) I'm surprised it didn't index by default. I have found that it is a split-second faster than remembering where the !@#$ I put the shortcut icon for a few things, but not others. So far, it's not ( Read more... )

A little tricky at first - the right Control key, for some reason, didn't want to be used to toggle between the "host" and "guest" OS, which meant that it took me a few tries to actually get WinXP installed... when my system decided I had been idle for 10 minutes, since it had received no input (all the input was going to the virtual XP system), ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning we head down to the Los Angeles area to deliver a monitor, help set up a computer, and then go shop and see Day Watch.

It turned out that my car's battery was starting to die, so eowyn797 helped me get it somewhere that it could have the battery replaced, and then have the oil and other essential fluids changed ( Read more... )

A few of you might understand what Xming can do. A few less of you might understand what X11 forwarding is any good for. Personally, I didn't know what either of these things were until two days ago when I was looking for a replacement for VNC. By making a secure shell connection to my Linux computer from work, I can run all the programs on the ( Read more... )

Not only am I waiting for word from WebDeveloperCo after a 2nd interview that went well, but I also managed to write some good PHP code recently.

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I decided to install Ubuntu Linux 6.1 tonight, and not only is it already running, but it comes loaded with networking, Firefox and GAIM (not to mention other stuff like OpenOffice). Loaded. As in, you don't need to install them. Because they're already there ( Read more... )