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Oops I tried KDE again... and back to GNOME

It had been a good 6+ months or so since my last attempt at using KDE and I had that bug up my ass yet again. I had originally installed KDE on my wife's laptop on whim and was very [...]

/home is where the heart is... on the NAS

In an attempt to unify my desktop data on my newly acquired laptop I decided to try out sharing my /home directory from my desktop as a NFS and then mounting it as /home on my laptop. Originally this idea [...]

Wireless Connection at Boot (pre-GUI)

A while back I got my wife a new laptop from Dell, got it set up with Ubuntu 8.10 and then proceeded to fight with YoVille! for a week or so prior. Since then, I still had a few action [...]

New Project: Function of the Day

So I've bought yet another domain, but actually got a site up in a timely fashion this time. The site is called Function of the Day and it's just that, a site that presents a single programming function every day [...]

Super Awesome Setup Script, Yummy!

The script better known simply as sassy was a long time coming. Every time I upgrade Ubuntu and then have crap fall apart to the point that I end up reinstalling I end up saying "Josh, if you had a [...]

And finally, I upgraded my hard drive (part 2)

And so the story continues. After much difficulty installing / setting up my new hard drive, I decided to make matters worse by cloning my old Windows XP partition to one of the partitions on the new drive. After a [...]

And finally, I upgraded my hard drive

Was a long time coming, seeing as I purchased the 1.5TB drive back in February. Pre-upgrade I had a 500GB drive partitioned into two partitions. The 100GB partition housed Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 upgraded to 8.10 upgraded to 9.04) and the [...]

Mass svn add script

So I have a tendency to add a bunch of new files to a project before actually doing a commit in Subversion. It's usually not an issue, I go through an add each new file and then finally do my [...]

Media Temple Grid-Service... ehhh, not so much

I'm starting to feel like I'm bitching and complaining a lot on here instead of documenting steps towards resolving issues. Today's subject, Media Temple's Grid-Service hosting. I personally don't have a Media Temple account (for reference, I am currently hosting [...]

Super massive content update

Gutted just about every page on the site. There's more of a focus on trim information without a lot of BS. No more links to friend's sites and software and shit that didn't really matter. Rewrote / updated the text [...]