Category Archives: software

Oct
09
2009

Audiogalaxy: the P2P music revolution

Little bit of history Back in early 1999, I was just finishing elementary school. My family had recently acquired our very first PC and the Internet proved to be much less boring than I had expected it to be. I was just getting into listening rap music and the MP3 audio format was by then [...]

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Aug
10
2009

My favorite Firefox addons

Having recently had to reinstall Firefox on a brand new system (Arch Linux FTW!), instead of copying my last profile (MozBackup for Windows is genius for this), I decided I’d go through the painful procedure of setting up everything from scratch. While a laborious task, doing it this way helps keep your profile clean of [...]

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May
18
2009

Window refresh fun

We’ve all seen the window refresh error in Windows, but here’s one in Ubuntu 9.04 and OpenOffice 3.0. This was made while OOo was generating a graph with a fairly large dataset. I’m not half the artist as the guy in the link above, though. :-/ In the legendary words of some geek band: “Every [...]

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May
13
2009

My Conky config

This is a Conky config I’ve been using for years now, but today I changed some things and decided to put it up here. I’m not the original author of this as I snatched it from the Ubuntu forums some years ago. According to the comments, someone named Pengo is. I think I made some [...]

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Mar
27
2009

FUCK TFTP

I’ve been trying to setup a tftpd for the past 2 hours without success. Something about a timeout error, yet the port is open, and both client and server are on the same subnet with no firewall. For His noodly appendage’s sake, this is supposed to be trivial. On Monday, I’ll try a server in [...]

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Feb
16
2009

Ode to simplicity

I recently found out about an application that beautifully abides to the KISS principle: todo.sh (yes, it took me a few years). It’s a small script written in Bash (a Python version is available as well) by the wonderful Gina Trapani (of Lifehacker fame) that helps you manage a very simple TODO list stored in [...]

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Nov
21
2008

Hello from WebFaction!

This is my first post after switching hosts, from A Small Orange to WebFaction.

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Mar
05
2008

Hard disk backup with Linux + dd

Performing a hard disk backup and restoring it successfully using dd isn’t as peachy as its manpage would lead you to believe. If it turns out that the partition you need backed up is bootable, and your boot manager is GRUB, there are some special considerations you might need to take into account in order to have a perfectly functioning copy faithful to the original.

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