Archive for October, 2006

GIMP Gallery moved inside of the blog.

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Let's face it:  the old GIMP Gallery was the ugliest hack of PHP knonw to mankind.  Hey, I was fiddling.  I couldn't find a good gallery product so I wrote my own.  Well, I finally found one that works under Wordpress .  It's called PhotoShow.   Very slick and easy to use plugin.  Just drop [...]

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No joy with Flash Player 9 Beta under Fedora Core 5

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Adobe released the Flash Player 9 plugin for Linux this week.  I downloaded it and tried it under identical software configs (FC5 & Firefox 1.5.0.7) on two different machines.  I tried viewing my two favorite sites that contain Flash content:  ABC's Lost and SciFi.com's Battlestar Galactica .  With the old Flash 7 plugin [...]

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Wordpress hack: disabling showing page children

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

I was working on my Dept 56 pages when I discovered that all child pages of a top level page would be displayed in the sidebar.  I don't really want that.  I want child pages to be linked from the top level page only.  That way the hierarchy isn't stuffed into the sidebar making it [...]

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Update: Aiptek 12000U tablet and Linux

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Herb Swanson wrote to tell me that my web site comes up first in his Google searches for Aiptek 12000U on Linux.  Because of that he suggested posting one of the places where he found more information.  The site is Ubuntu specific but it might help users of other distributions, provided you 

Aren't afraid of recompiling [...]

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Geek happiness != wealth

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Rondam Ramblings: Top ten geek business myths is a  blog from a guy named Ron Garret who's been there, done that, and wants the geeks of the world to know that the truth just aint what you think. 
I won't rehash the whole blog, but let me summarize:

If you want to be rich: Don't build what [...]

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Applix to OpenOffice: forced migration

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

After many, many years of using Applix Words for documents at home, I have just become aware that FC5 no longer includes the C++ library I needed to continue running the old Applix binary.  It was bound to happen.  But I need to convert those old documents (all of them Applix Words – my Sheets [...]

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