Going to my mother’s grave on saturday for the all saints day turned out to be, once again, a release of no small amounts of tears and emotions. This year it’ll be 16 years ago since she passed away. What’s weird is that before I …
One annoying thing about cool laptops is that they aren’t really all that cool, at least not when it comes to placing them in your lap and working with them for countless hours. Research show that boys/guys/men, in particular, may run into problems with hot …
Having gotten used to the Zip-Linq mini-mouse with the retractable chord, I was worried that I wouldn’t feel equally happy with the two targus wireless mice I got for the two laptops here at home. After having unpacked them both and plugged them in, I …
I’ve been revamping a site that’s been collecting dust for far too long. The original site is in really ugly (codewise and in design) plain vanilla HTML, so I’ve decided to move it to Joomla; not so much because Joomla is the ultimate tool for this site, but because there are too many fun CMS-type tools out there, I’d be doing nothing else but getting myself buried in playing with them 🙂
The quest at hand: to find a suitable file and directory browsing (aka “download”) add-on for Joomla.
Setting up a SuSE 10.1 lab server for use with XEN virtualization, I ran into a snag where I had forgotten to allocate space for logical volume management (LVM) during the installation. Searching through nine zillion (possibly more) web sites and knowledgebase articles for resizing …
Now that Mozilla Firefox 2.0 is out, a lot of people will be scrambling to get their extensions and themes updated to work with the new version; well, at least us users will be looking for the updates. Let’s hope all the developers/producers out there …
From time to time, I need to boot one of my workstations into Windows instead of Linux, and I’m always reminded of the applications I take for granted under Linux. Although apps like GnomeTerminal need some serious attention in some areas, one quickly becomes accustomed …
From Tsuguya Sasaki’s “Thunderbird: Guide for the Perplexed”: Please Metricate Thunderbird! United States, the guardian of English as the putative universal language of computers and the Internet, is one of the three countries in the world (!) that do not use the metric system (aka …
I’ve been dragging my feet on upgrading my monitor at work. My Samsung 181T TFT was doing its job, and I’ve always thought of it as a good and solid monitor. At home, I’ve been using a variety of Samsung and HP TFT monitors, but …
.. when you start getting “Happy Birthday” messages from forums, user groups, portals, and other “web places” you can’t even remember you signed up for. It goes with the territory I suppose, when you sign up for technical support forums and other community sites; but …