Testing 1 2 3 … er what comes next?
I started Firefox in safe-mode and now my WordPress editor is working fine. Methinks, maybe Google Gears was fecking up the editor somehow. Uninstalling Google Gears, exiting FF, restart in normal mode...
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Ryan & The Cardinals
The missues is big into Ryan Adams & The Cardinals. I’ve been listening to him too, but thought he was a bit too “countryish” for my tastes. So anyways we go see them live at the Orpheum last...
View ArticleXen for Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10
I was in the process of figuring out and documenting the process of compiling and installing an Xen enabled kernel on Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10. This was for a specific project that’s not going to come to...
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De Charles
Went for a walk along the Charles yesterday, what a great day, and it’s was nice and quite down there and a great to relax, chill and get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. And the MIT’er...
View ArticleUbuntu Jaunty & ATI
This is quick’n’dirty writeup to help others who might have the same problem. I’ll clean this up later in the week … Ubuntu Jaunty is the new beta version of Ubuntu. It comes with a new version of...
View ArticleRed Hat 9
I have a Red Hat 9 server that I have to support for a wee while longer. I needed to install some packages and I didn’t have the original install CD’s nor access to Red Hat’s repositories. After lot’s...
View ArticleKaboom is cool!
Great tool for converting KDE3 settings to KDE4 on Debian. Also, it’s works well to merge KDE4 settings from .kde4 with KDE3 settings in .kde. This is useful as KDE4 1st used .kde4 to save personal KDE...
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(2.0.0.16 > 3.0.8) == true ?
I use Kayak.com whenever I’m planning a trip any where, it’s a good source to determine who flies to what destination and whose got the lowest price. Today, there’s a wee bug on their website where...
View ArticleKilling X
On Ubuntu it used to be that ctrl-alt-backspace would kill X (the backend of the various graphical user interfaces on Linux). In an aim to be user friendly this is now disabled by default. This can be...
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The View
The view from my desk at my new job isn’t bad: Much better than looking at the tweed walls of the cube in the cube farm of my old workplace. And, non-Donegal Tweed at that, sure even the Donegal Tweed...
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4th of July Fireworks!
I won’t be in Boston for the fireworks show on July 4th. But if you show up at the last minute to see the fireworks, they start at 10.30pm, you can head onto to Harvard Bridge, commonly know as Mass...
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Compiling Osra on Ubuntu Jaunty
This is a brief HOWTO on compiling OSRA, (Optical Structure Recognition) on Ubuntu Jaunty. To quote the OSRA home page, OSRA is … is a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical...
View ArticleCompiling EIGENSOFT on Ubuntu Januty
These are rough notes on how to compile Eigensoft 3 on Ubuntu Jaunty. Update, Eigensoft 4 is available and should compile on more recent versions of Ubuntu:...
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Got home
Just back from a trip home to Ireland and am pooped. Got up at 6am (1am EST) and drove up to Dublin Airport from Donegal Town via Omagh. Got there about 10.30am, would have been earlier but the car was...
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Install Oracle SQL Developer on Ubuntu Karmic & Lucid
If you want to install Oracle’s SQL Developer on Ubuntu (or another DEB based system such as Debian) you can do one of the following: Download the RPM package and install using rpm (not advisable)....
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Cool new album due out from David Byrne & Fat Boy Slim. Here’s a preview featuring a Santigold song See David Byrne’s site for more details.
View ArticleWp-Supercache & Wp-mobile plugin
Recently I updated the wp-supercache plugin. It’s a plugin for WordPress which is the blogging software that runs this site. Wp-supercache is used to cache pages and is very useful if this blog should...
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Bluetooth Stops working After upgrade to Mac OS 10.6.3
Friday before I left work I kicked off the upgrade to Mac OS 10.6.3 on the MacBook Pro (MBP) I use at work. I’d already upgrade my personal MacBook at home (that I got a deal on at MicroCenter) and I...
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