Busy…

I’ve been working on a school paper for the last few days. Sorry about no posts.
Due tomorrow. Only 6 pages left…

Removing OpenOffice extensions

I was checking out some OpenOffice extensions the other day, and I found some neat ones. One of the best I saw was to get tabbed windows. I got it, as well as a few others.
Unfortunately, it is very buggy, and I do not like it at all, at least not right now. It is [...]

Update to compatibilizer

I’m not sure if anyone is actually using my compatibilizer script apart from myself, but I updated it to handle another method of specifying the max version. This update covers both types now.
To use it, simply use it insteadof the original. If you installed it, just re-run the install-compatibilizer script with the new compatibilizer in [...]

Transferring files with a Bluetooth phone and Ubuntu 7.10

My phone is Bluetooth capable (It’s a standard RAZR). The only reason I personally use the Bluetooth is to transfer my pictures and videos over to my computer so I can use them to illustrate articles about pencil sharpenings.
However, Ubuntu is not very well equipped to handle transferring files by default. It can connect to [...]

New Icons

I don’t really notice icons that much normally. The normal gnome ones seemed fine. However, one of the new features in Firefox 3 is that it takes the icons, such as the forward and back buttons, home, etc. from your local theme. This feature is great, as it allows the browser to fit in with [...]

Getting Flash working in Firefox 3

I now have flash working properly in Firefox 3 as well as Firefox 2 on my system!
Until now, I could not find a way to get my perfectly working flash from FF2 to translate to Firefox 3. It was killing me. I don’t particularly like flash, but it is an excellent way to view videos [...]

Humorous comic that is surprisingly insightful.

I found this a few minutes ago. It has so much insight into Americans today that I couldn’t help but laugh. Then cry.
Anyways… Go look at it:
Some Prepared Remarks
This guy apprently put funny remarks on about 250 pictures. The nice part is, they are actually funny. A nice change from the usual, at least. At [...]

My new desktop background

I tend to change my background picture almost constantly, so I decided to find a program that would do it for me.
I’m using Wallpaper Tray right now. You can get it with ’sudo apt-get install wallpaper-tray’. It changes wallpaer either at logon, timed, or both. It allows you to specify the directories it searches for [...]

Emptying the pencil sharpener

Well, lately my roommate’s pencil sharpener has been acting up, not wanting to work. The thing is, this is the best sharpener ever. It works miracles on dull pencils. Its an oldish Boston office sharpener. I want one so badly.
Well, my neighbor got this brilliant idea that it might be full! Guess what? He was [...]

More on installing incompatible Firefox Extensions

I was bored, so I decided to make a shell script to automate the process of making a firefox extension work with all versions.
It was quite a learning experience, being my first decent shell script.Note that in all likelihood it sucks, and barely works. But it *does* do what it’s supposed to do. At least [...]