Category: Tech
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Ubuntu membership
Last Tuesday I was present at the Ubuntu Community Council meeting where my application for Ubuntu membership was under consideration. Thankfully I was near the front of a rather large queue of applicants, so I did not have to wait too long to be considered. I nominated myself for membership on the basis of my contributions with the bugsquad and my…
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Top ten most ran programs
A meme doing the rounds, here is the list of ten applications I’ve used the most. I appear to have a much smaller HISTSIZE than some. Guess who’s been having internet problems and is struggling with patchy access to a neighbours wireless. A lot of the sudo commands are me bouncing the network connection. Like Wouter I…
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Joining the bugsquad
I’ve been using (unstable) Ubuntu as my full-time operating system for the last 18 months and one of my new years resolutions was to try and help out with open source software a bit more. So I’ve been volunteering some time to help out with testing and bug triaging amongst other things. Anyway Tuesday night sfflaw made me member of the Ubuntu quality…
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Double click vs single click
Update: It seems people are finding this post looking for how to change their double click settings. For GNOME: Open nautilus (click Places -> Home folder) Edit the nautilus preferences (click Edit->Preferences On the behaviour tab, click “single click” Most operating systems (Microsoft Windows, GNOME) default to double clicking on some things and single clicking…
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I.E. DOM Explorer
While developing web pages at work, I’ve been struggling with using Javascript and the DOM to update elements via CSS. At home I’d just run various Firefox extensions and be able to track the problem down but at work I’m stuck with I.E. which has basically no developer friendly features. Scouring around the web for…
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Tracks: Gettings Things Done
For the last fortnight or so I’ve been looking for a way to implement David Allens Getting Things Done time management methodologies. I’ve tried using it on my Pocket PC but it’s native todo system didn’t leave me satisfied with it, so I drifted away from the system. I was looking for something electronic which I could…
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Belated new years resolutions
While I’m doing lists. This year I intend to: be healthier – early starts at work and getting the car haven’t been the best things for me. Go to bed at normal times Do some excercise – I’ve already been Thai Boxing, once. It’s a start. Get things done Make a significant contribution to open…
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5 cool gmail tools
I’ve spent a while looking around at different gmail tools so thought I’d share a few of my favourites. GTray – A gmail notifier that’s better than the official one, it shows unread mail on startup, registers mailto: links and provides a notifier in the system tray. DelBackup. Automated backing up delicious to your gmail account. (howto) GmailFS – A…
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Participation
After deciding to actually do something to contribute to free/libre software instead of just doing IRC/forums tech support, using it and filing bugs, I finally got off of my backside… First of all I translated F-spot – a photo management tool. I haven’t kept up on this with recent versions and Gareth Owen has since been updating…
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Flock
I’ve downloaded flock a firefox based web browser. It’s a basically reskinned firefox + some (well integrated) extensions. It aims to coexist with Firefox and not fork it, I suppose it’s vaguely similar to the ubuntu and debian relationship. The new features include: A blog poster (which I’m writing this from), which is really intuitive, simple and requires no user…