There has been a lot of musings in the wake of Apple’s iPad announcement. The conversation below took place in 2006. It would be interesting to hear a rehashed version given the state of the industry today, but I thought I’d refresh my memory by rereading. Mark Pilgrim announcement to switch away from OSX: In [...]
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Eclipse 3.5 & Ubuntu 9.10 0
This guy just saved my sanity! If you are running Eclipse 3.5 and are noticing “funny” behavior (buttons not working, certain fields not appearing), then follow these instructions. It looks like Eclipse is doing some nasty stuff advanced hacking in SWT on GTK. This bug is fixed in 3.6M2 but you can work around the [...]
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realizations 0
photo credit: tschörda 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 desktop. Having [...]
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a series of unfortunate frustrations 0
photo credit: zopeuse 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). It has [...]
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GNU Screen Cheat Sheet 0
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 bit (though I’m [...]
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firefox corruption issue (w/ fix) 0
If you are seeing the following error: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY) [nsIDocShellHistory.useGlobalHistory]” nsresult: “0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: prepareForStartup :: line 764″ data: no] photo credit: meantux Symptoms: When you start firefox, it doesn’t take you to your home page. Your home button doesn’t work or [...]
Install Adobe AIR Linux 1.5 on 64-bit Linux distributions 1
So Adobe has this knowledge base article — Install Adobe AIR Linux 1.5 on 64-bit Linux distributions — to describe how to install Adobe Air on 64 bit linux systems. Do yourself a favor — just install wine from the standard repositories, and then execute the last line in the instructions: sudo cp /usr/lib/libadobecertstore.so /usr/lib32 [...]
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