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Intel Graphics Regressions in Jaunty, say wha?

A piece of me died after I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04. Apparently, and serves me right for not reading up on it before the upgrade, the Intel Graphics drivers are completely crippled by a bug in the code [...]

I wish YoVille! would just die

So my wife loves this ridiculous online / Facebook game called YoVille!. It's basically a silly point system tacked onto a chat room. Even worse, it's formal equivalent would be Animal Crossing, which I shelled out like 70$ for when [...]

New Feature, an RSS Feed!

Sadly, I failed to add an RSS feed to the site when it initially launched. Even sadder, the "system" I have been developing for the last year (it's called PICKLES and is about to make it to revision 100 in [...]

Nintendo Wii Won't Power On

This is the second time this has happened to me in the last 6 weeks, my Nintendo Wii simply will not power on. No lights, no anything. The last time it happened, I unplugged everything, unplugged the power adapter from [...]

Pidgin Issues Revisited

Welp, the mysterious Pidgin I was receiving a while back popped back up. For those that don't remember, it was "Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait...!" and then a segfault. Well the issue magically corrected itself the last [...]

File Usage Reporting Script

In retrospect on writing this Python script, I probably could have pulled it off in a short Bash script. Maybe another day. Anyway, this latest utility script of mine takes a variable number of arguments, the first being the "needle&quot [...]

Smarty Function: State Drop Down

Today is the last day I will have to dig around for a drop down of states to use on a web site. I've finally stopped being lazy and added a Smarty function to PICKLES to allow for easy insertion [...]

Using SQL's IN syntax to search multiple fields

This may not be something new for anyone, but figured I'd post it anyway. I needed to check for a certain date in multiple fields, instead of listing each one out, I used IN but used the value on the [...]

Nonogram Demo in PyGTK

So a while back I had gotten 3-in-1 Sodoku Garden on my cell phone because I like Sodoku even though I'm not that great at it. I figured, 3 games for the price of 1, wicked cool. Turns out one [...]

Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait...!

So out of the blue last night, Pidgin (version 2.5.2) crashed on me and when I tried to relaunch it, it would only stay open for a brief moment. I hadn't done any updates to my system since my last [...]