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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 [...]

All Music Guide (AMG) Tagging Script

So recently I decided that I hated how my music collection was tagged. I try to break apart the genres but ideally most of my music falls under multiple genres. Well All Music Guide (AMG, allmusic.com) does a pretty good [...]

PHP Warning: Module 'mcrypt' already loaded

So the other day I realized that my concert spider stopped running. To my surprise I had a lot going wrong on my local machine (which runs the spider). First and foremost, MySQL wasn't running. Still not sure why, but [...]

Bash script to flatten a directory

I just came across an old CD of Fonts that I had purchased before I knew better. Well I didn't want to throw the disc out without copying all the fonts to my system. All the fonts were broken up [...]

Why I still use GNOME instead of KDE

When I first started using Linux a decade or so ago I had no real preference in desktop environment. I used KDE, I used GNOME, I even ran command line only depending on the distribution. Once settling on Slackware as [...]