Category Archives: Nifty

Firefox Three, Guinness World Records, and bananas.

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Trick

So I guess bananas has nothing to do with it, although all you monkeys will be jealous to know I had one with my dinner, and it was tasty. However the real fruit of the day is (you guessed it) … Continue reading →

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New camera (look, a sandwich!)

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Trick

Go ahead, laugh.  I know it’s funny that I somehow managed to break my old camera while making dinner.  What can I say.  I like to take pictures of things that I cook.  It just seems that it’s a bad … Continue reading →

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Lesson in Programming: Why those /* (funny) */ comments are so important

Posted on November 3, 2007 by Trick

At work we always marvel about the comments we come across in our code. Indiana Jones stories that somehow get related back to the code by it, how tired the programmer was when writing the code, indications of the [lack … Continue reading →

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Diamondcard rocks!

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Trick

I’ve been travelling for the last two weeks and have been trying (oh so hard) to get internet calling set up properly on my laptop.  The router in the flat I’m staying in is a POS, and is giving me … Continue reading →

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GUADEC followup

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Trick

Wowzers, what a great time! Was intending to write about each day individually, but that’s certainly out of the question now. GUADEC was a great experience and I’m hooked on the community! A big thanks to everyone who helped put … Continue reading →

Posted in Banshee, Free and Open Source, GNU/Linux, GUADEC 2007, Gnome, MTP, Nifty, Travel, Uncategorized, libgphoto2-sharp | 1 Comment

NetworkManager and Gentoo

Posted on July 21, 2006 by Trick

So, I’ve recently converted my laptop to Gentoo, and before I even had the base system merged in, I thought I should research NetworkManager. I was running Slackware 10.2 on the lappy, and I had never considered NetworkManager due to … Continue reading →

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Xorg updates & such :)

Posted on June 10, 2006 by Trick

So I’m pleased to announce that another linux user has had a smooth upgrade to the modular X.org.  I’ve spent the last 24 hours making a jump from xorg 6.8.2 to 7.1, and right now I’m in the process of … Continue reading →

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FreeBusy parser

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Trick

I’ve always been wondering how I can make use of the FreeBusy export in Kronolith, and I’ve been looking for a php script to parse it into a simple calendar…so I’ve decided to write one for myself! It’s nowhere near … Continue reading →

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