Archive for the ‘QFTPWE’ Category
First post using shap ShapeWriter input method on Android
I must say this is way faster than tapping. It’s surprisingly accurate even after only a few minutes of using it
MacBook Pro Hinges
About a year ago I upgraded from a MacBook to a MacBook Pro 17″ to get the additional screen space. I used to work a lot from my couch before the upgrade. It gets tiring work from a desk after about 8hrs. The upgrade caused some problems though. I opened up my shiny new MBP, [...]
How to force Mail.app to show messages in plain text
If you read a lot of emails from exchange users this is a must have. It fixes the super small fonts that exchange seems to like to send by default. Simply run this in a terminal: defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE I’m not sure why apple made fixed width fonts a preference pane option [...]
3 Generations of Apple Laptops
As a third generation mac laptop owner I’ve been able to watch the products evolve over the past 3 years. While I think apple has always designed the best laptop hardware, they haven’t hit the sweet spot for me. I’ve owned 2 giant ipods and one powerbook. All three have had their good features and [...]
Leopard looks promising
Apple has managed to knock one more item off the list of things I think are missing from Mac OS X. Leopard is going to support virtual desktops with an app they call Spaces. I know that Spaces has already been done with an app called VirtueDesktop. While VirtueDesktop does solve the problem it’s clunky [...]
Oops, you’re read only.
The quest continues… Tonight while working from home firefox crashed. Firefox never crashes on this box. When I tried to start it again I got nothing. Time to revert to the terminal. Starting firefox now returns: GConf Error: Adding client to server’s list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Could not set mode 0700 on private per-user [...]
RHEL4 And the clipboard
Dear clipboard, Why don’t you just work? When I copy something from firefox and try to paste it into gaim why do you paste something that I copied from konsole 20 minutes ago? I have set kipper to synchronize the selection and x clipboard. Why doesn’t this work? Why do you hate me? You work [...]
Warming up to Kubuntu
Kubuntu has been a rough road so far. Most things work right out of the box but it’s missing a way to install most of the common dev packages. The stable tree seems to be missing a lost of common libs (ones that are even available in suse). I had to install all the auto*, [...]
Searching for a new distro… again..
SuSE 10 has failed me. It seems that every new suse release is further behind in kde package version and is lacking another geek package. I end up putting in extra suse sources and searching all over the net for things I want to use. Sorry SuSE, my old friend, it’s time to say good [...]
Presenting Instant Search.
At first glance Instant search appears to be our answer to Google Suggest Both provide instant results to search queries as the user types. The differences appear in the actual results that come back. When I first saw Google Suggest I was amazed. Once again Google had shown me something painfully obvious that, as a [...]