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Enable Gnome Video Thumbnails in Arch Linux
Gnome’s file manager Nautilus does a great job of automatically thumbnailing all kinds of files including pretty much any video file. But, in a fresh Arch Linux install you still need a few gstreamer packages to enable totem-video-thumbnailer to do its job…
Relevant Windows 7 facts
This is not meant to be a thorough report, just the highlights I found relevant related to its recent release. Versions Starter is weak (for netbooks) 32-bit only, OEM pre-install only Home Basic is for emerging markets (we probably won’t see it in the US much) Home Premium is what most consumers will end up with Professional is the lowest [...]
WordCamp PDX ‘09 Day 1 – What I came away with
I just attended WordCamp Portland ‘09 Day 1 (Sat, Sept. 19 2009) an this is what I came away with… Session: Jason Grigsby – Speed Up Wordpress. Make Readers Happy and Your Site Green Setting expires headers really does matter in the battle for page loading speed/efficiency. SpriteMe makes CSS sprite implementation so easy there’s little excuse not [...]
Sometimes Ghost is truly the best tool
Lately I’ve been loving Clonezilla for rolling out refurbed Dell workstations. It’s been really cool, boot from USB “liveCD”, clone disk to disk directly over gigabit ethernet, reboot, repeat. But after doing 10 of them, I ran into the true limitation of Clonezilla. Clonezilla relies on ntfsclone and partimage (great tools) but they share a [...]
Thanks to TweetPhoto.com Everyone Knows Im a Pervert
So tweetphoto.com plans to dominate the twitter photo upload market by copying twitpic.com and adding very little to set it apart… except for the built-in tracking that reveals on the front page what I really think about day and night…
Asides
- This morning I was going over last night's ClamWin scan results on my Windows XP box and found a few instances of Trojan.Rootkit-1835 infecting the following files: (more...) #
- Viigo has some great features and all but for simple RSS reading on my BlackBerry Google Reader Mobile beats the crap out of Viigo. (more...) #
- New theme integration is progress. I just don't have the gas to do it all in one night... (more...) #
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