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What a rough weekend.
Ann and I are both looking for jobs at this point. Quite a significant stress level right there. Then on Friday we got a notice from our landlord that he needs to move into our apartment, and that we have two months to find a new place. [...]
Categories: personal
Tagged: eviction, job search
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Please give us a mouse with two freaking buttons! This right-click success rate of 50% is annoying the crap out of me. I pulled out my old crappy Belkin travel mouse and you know what? When I want to right click now? I just press the right mouse [...]
Categories: computers
Tagged: apple, might mouse
After weeks and weeks of rumors, ABC announced they would renew Castle for another season and Fox agreed to pick up Dollhouse (though still sticking it in the “where shows go to die” Friday night time slot). Unfortunately, Terminator – The Sarah Conner Chronicles will not be picked up after a “fragmented” two season [...]
Categories: tv
Tagged: castle, dollhouse, nathon fillion, whedon
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If you need to install linux on a laptop, choose Ubuntu over the other derivations. There is simply more time and people working on the Gnome version of Ubuntu versus the KDE or Fluxbox derivations. When I installed Kubuntu 09.04 (Jaunty) things weren’t “just working” like they do on my [...]
Categories: linux
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Kubuntu 09.04 (Jaunty) has been an absolute pleasure to use on my home desktop. Everything just works, and works really well. I happen to choose an Nvidia graphics card when I put it together. Turns out that was a very good decision.
Lets turn to my laptop (a Thinkpad T42). [...]
Categories: linux
photo credit: concretecandy
My normal modus operandi is to heavily use tabs with Konsole. My strategy gets pretty hectic when you have a Konsole per machine with multiple tabs, trying to juggle everything… It’s basically reached it’s scalability threshold. I’m hoping injecting GNU Screen into my workflow will simplify things a little [...]
Categories: linux