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    • Open messaging for the Open Web: Installing and configuring Mozilla Raindrop on Ubuntu 9.10 November 12, 2009
      Shared by Douglas call me when there's a repo...the ubuntu version of "pics or it didn't happen" By the time you read this Karmic Koala will have been released to a waiting world, but I couldn’t wait. A felicitous combination of a desire to do a distribution upgrade to the release candidate and a Twitter arriving on my laptop giving me a […]
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    • The Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act of 2009 November 9, 2009
      A BILL To address the concept of ‘‘Too Big To Fail’’ with respect to certain financial entities. 1     Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 4     This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Too Big to Fail, Too 5 Big to Exist Act’’. 6 SEC. 2. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON INS […]
      James Kwak
    • GNOME roadmap updated, version 3 pushed back to late 2010 November 11, 2009
      Shared by Douglas I'm not sure how I feel about this. My hope is GNOME does it, but Ubuntu doesn't pick it up for a while. Fedora, of course, will, because of their hemorrhagic-edge nature, which has it's place. The GNOME desktop environment is undergoing a significant transformation. The developers behind the open source project are working o […]
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    • Kaplan: Civil Society Requires Perpetual War November 11, 2009
      Shared by Douglas HELL YEAH! BLACK METAL! One of the best things about not working at The Atlantic anymore is not counting Robert Kaplan among my professional colleagues. Here’s his take on modern-day Europe: Europe, having been liberated from nuclear terror at the conclusion of the Cold War, proved unable to muster the gumption to deal with Yugoslavia on it […]
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    • Get a 32-inch LCD TV for $298 November 11, 2009
      Shared by Douglas if I wasn't moving, I might pick one of these up. This new Soyo model doesn't offer a lot of frills, but it does deliver full 720p video for less than three bills. One caveat, though: Soyo seems to be out of business.
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    • Ovisst om Zlatans framtid i landslaget - Zlatan Ibrahimovic 09/10 - Fotboll 2009 - sr.se November 10, 2009
      Shared by Douglas what. the. ef. Zlatan Ibrahimovic fanns inte med i den trupp som den nye förbundskaptenen Erik Hamrén presenterade på måndagen. Det är högst oklart om vi får se Zlatan i blågult igen.
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    • Guldbollen som väntat till Zlatan Ibrahimovic November 10, 2009
      Shared by Douglas he tends to be noticeably silent in the big games for country though. Haven't had time to follow things at Barcelona but obviously he beat up in Serie A, which is no pushover. Bara några timmar efter beskedet om att Zlatan nobbar landslaget tog han hem Guldbollen för tredje året i rad.
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    • Irony: U2's 'Free' Concert At The Berlin Wall, Blocked By A Big Wall November 10, 2009
      Shared by Douglas Why is it I hate everything associated with U2? Dementia writes in to point out the rather ironic situation of a "free" concert put on by the band U2, at the remains of the Berlin Wall in order to celebrate the demise of the wall... but MTV decided to put up a big temporary barrier around the event so those who didn't have fr […]
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    • Every open source nerd thread you’ll ever read trollcat November 9, 2009
      Shared by Douglas epic lawlz This trollcat submitted by Anonymous. Also, GPL? (tl;dr–some shit geeks like to argue about A LOT.)
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    • Are Microsoft to blame for "hidden" malware costs and will Windows 7 make any difference? November 7, 2009
      Shared by Douglas this is simple. It's both. A couple of stories have hit the headlines this year concerning the huge cost that some UK Local Governments incurred when dealing with malware attack on their Windows machines. If you missed them, Manchester City Council had a single USB infected with the infamous Conficker worm and it cost them — brace your […]
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    • Libre.fm bug November 7, 2009
      Shared by Douglas dear Flickr feed in Google Reader. thanks for reminding me to report this bug. Unfortunately, I don't have time right now. Can you remind later? Oh, you don't work that way? ef. dawhitfield posted a photo: Remind me to report this bug tomorrow...
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    • US Government Surpasses Google for Geothermal Funding November 5, 2009
      More than $300 million in funding for research and development of geothermal energy has been announced by U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. This now pushes Google.org into second place behind the government in domestic geothermal R & D funding. The projects funded by this program address a number of issues which are needed in order to furth […]
      Philip Proefrock
    • Best Hand Painting Art Ever November 6, 2009
      Shared by Douglas tattoo ideas...ha! Body painting is a type of art in which paint is applied to a part of skin. It is considered one of the ancient types of art. Unlike tattoos, body painting is temporary. Lasting for just few hours or ion some cases a few weeks. Hand painting art is the application of make-up or paint on to the hands to look like any objec […]
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    • 15 Free Guides That Really Teach You USEFUL Stuff November 6, 2009
      Shared by Douglas they have a Linux one. Sweet. Over the past months, we’ve written quite a few PDF manuals for you, on all kinds of diverging subjects, including BitTorrent, iTunes, iPhone, Twitter, Mac, Linux, Photoshop and several other topics. Initially available only for subscribers, there are now multiple manuals released every month, for everyone to e […]
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    • Alan Pope: A Question of Perspective November 4, 2009
      I’ve seen a few posts complaining about the recent Ubuntu 9.10 release. Some cite specific issues, others are vague hand-wavy “it’s crap” posts with scant detail, making it difficult to find fixes. Today we had a long time Ubuntu user turn up for support telling us that Ubuntu 9.10 had “so many problems” and “once again it was total fail”. This led them to s […]
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    • 10 Neat Facts About Google November 4, 2009
      Shared by Douglas If only the button said, "I'm feeling lucky, punk" Google in 1998 (notice the exclamation mark) Sure, everybody knows that Google was created by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin who became gazillionaires. But did you know that Google's first storage device was cobbled together with LEGO? Or that Google […]
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    • MARILYN MANSON :: This Is Halloween November 2, 2009
      I favorited a YouTube video: Tim Burton's 'The Nighmare Before Christmas' re-cut with Marilyn Manson's version of 'This Is Halloween' for the re-release of the film in Disney Digital 3-D and 2-Disc Special Edition Soundtrack.
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    • We Are Douchebags. November 1, 2009
      I favorited a YouTube video: From Wikipedia: A reclaimed word is a word in a language that was at one time a pejorative but has been brought back into acceptable usage—usually starting within the communities that experienced oppression under that word, but often also among the general populace as well. Written & Directed by Mike Litzenberg & Bridge S […]
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    • Google sued for super-skinny Chrome polishing • The Register October 31, 2009
      Shared by Douglas should I gouge out my eyes or cut off my hands? I'm really not sure any more. tandem with its Israeli parent company - Red Bend Ltd. - the Massachusetts-based Red Bend Software filed its suit in federal court on Monday, accusing Google of infringing its patent on "a method for generating a compact difference result between an old […]
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    • Franken passes law denying fed contracts to companies that support rape of employees October 31, 2009
      Shared by Douglas I hope that dick from my home state doesn't get a single female vote. That is sickening. Go Senator Al! Al Franken successfully introduced legislation that denies federal contracts to companies that have policies -- anywhere in the world -- that punish employees for complaining about rape or discrimination on the job. This is in respon […]
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Archive for February, 2008

Been a while

Posted by douglasawh on February 2, 2008

This is a post I apparently saved a while back, but never posted:

“So, I haven’t been using Vista for the last little bit since my last computer wasn’t up to the task. I’ve now got a Dell 755 which runs Vista/Office 2007 at great speed.”

I should add that we went through a saga with the video card in that machine.  In the end, Dell came through.

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Synergy and other things

Posted by douglasawh on February 2, 2008

Well, it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted here. There’s been a lot going on with SFD, me going Linux full time on my laptop, a break up and plenty of sickness in the family. During that time, I also got a new Blackberry at work and a new PC. This new PC is much more Vista friendly, but there are still some problems. Synergy gives an error saying “FATAL: cannot open primary screen: unable to open screen” and leaves up a notification you can’t make go ahead, but proceeds to work. Said message says “A program can’t display a message on your desktop” You caneither click “Show me the message,” which doesn’t work or “Remind me in a few minutes,” which should be obvious how that could be annoying.

Firefox 3b2 still has memory issues…hope that is just Vista related.

Right now my main gripe is with Outlook 2007 and how it deals with tasks. You can read about that at my post at ubuntu forums.

Does anyone want to help get Ruckus working on Linux? What about Evolution on Windows (specifically Vista)?

We also need more people in COSI’s Last.fm group.

One last thing. COSI has a big event coming up.

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