How not to treat your customers, an advanced lesson
This is not something I would normally post about but this example goes beyond the pale… http://penny-arcade.com/resources/just-wow1.html
Archive for Computers
Goodbye Nokia, it’s been nice knowing you.
After Nokia’s decision to pretty much dump Symbian and drop MeeGo I was starting to think about alternative suppliers for my phones. This is an incredibly hard decision as I have been a Nokia customer since 1996. The 3 times I have used an alternate phone have either been disasters or have run side by [...]
Back to XCFE4
After a few days with KDE I decided I didn’t like how buggy it was. I have moved back to XFCE after trying a few others. For me I wanted just enough features so I can get my work done without any pauses or glitches that will distract me. I am not 100% happy with [...]
Hosts file for blocking ads and other unwanted crap. speeds up browsing also
I used to use a hosts file supplied by a website that has now ceased operations. http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html however I found this new one from a slashdot post. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Virtual Subst drive letters for long paths
http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/visual-subst.html
guake terminal application fails with guake.schemas error on ubuntu 10.10
I am surprised this one hasn’t been fixed as I can see on google mentions of this back to 2007. Anyway many google results tell you to execute this command. This also gives a file not found error. I did a quick updatedb and locate guake.schemas. Here is an updated command for Ubuntu 10.10 to [...]
Making Ubuntu Usable.
I wanted a quick launch panel at the bottom of the screen like I have in windows 7. I decided to look for a mac like and found avant-window-navigator (AWN) I installed this via synaptic and within 10 minutes had it looking pretty. I moved the show desktop icon, trash icon and open applications list [...]
Eclipse PDT in Ubuntu.
Very Very easy. Full instructions here with explanation I will be installomg php, mysql and apache for use with this. If everything else works ok I will have a script develop.sh which will start apache, mysql, and eclipse up. When I quit eclipse it will close down apache and mysql. I will do this to [...]
Nvidia drivers and Firefox
I am used to firefox on windows and expected it to operate in an identical manner. It does for the most part but one thing that is bugging me is that in Windows when you click in the Address bar it gets highlighted and you can start typing a new URL straight away. In linux [...]
Hard drive arrived dual booted Mint Debian
I used a live partion backup cd to backup the windows 7 partitions and restored them to the new hard drive. I then installed Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) Then the fun began. I didn’t expect LMDE to be as user friendly as the standard Linux Mint but I did want a rolling distribution that [...]