There…I can live without the weather on this one for now, so I’m uploading it here lest I ever again forget to save a copy before wiping it out. I’m told you don’t need to start it with a script anymore (in Hardy and Intrepid, it would start and quit if you didn’t delay), but […]
To disable Jaunty’s stupid warning dialog when a program started by Terminal is still running: gconf-editor, apps > gnome-terminal > global > uncheck confirm_window_close That will also disable the warning if you have multiple tabs, but I don’t give a damn–that warning is very Windows-y and annoying as hell. I already know that closing a […]
I installed Jaunty this morning, and like every time, I was nervous because I’m always afraid I’ll get too confident someday and end up doing something I can’t undo that will fuck up my files so badly that I can’t get them back. This time, I even hacked an extra 20GB off my XP partition […]
It’s not AT&T’s anymore (okay, so technically it is, but at least I don’t have their stupid carrier name up there), and I can even protest Charter’s 90s-vintage speeds with a cute little snail icon for wifi! I’d probably like a stock iPhone, but it’s far more awesome when I can customise. 🙂 I made […]
What do I have to do to make the notification go away?!?! It’s driving me INSANE! Must I don tutu, rubber boots and hockey helmet, and recite Beowulf from memory as I dance flamenco around a fire under a full moon? Go away, little 1-in-a-red-circle. I READ EVERYTHING–what more do you want from me!?!?!
Most of this shit gets marked read and sent directly to the trash without my ever seeing it, but once in a while, one slips through. I sometimes read them, just out of curiosity. This is slightly more sophisticated than a Nigerian 419 scam, but not by much. The subject line was “Last Email Notification” […]
1990, when Radio Shack still had cool, interesting stuff and wasn’t just full of RC toys, crappy HP computers, replacement batteries and a Sprint kiosk. Oh yeah, and the replacement foam “headphone socks” that I need because earbuds never fit properly. If you wanted the latest tech back then, you could find it at Radio […]
OMFG! Hahahahaha! I just know this is gonna piss off the militant feminists, but that only makes me like it all the more. Besides, it’s fucking FUNNY. Apparently, there’s a “tamed down” US version (this is the UK), but I didn’t bother looking for it because this one made me snort my coffee. I just […]
I love Stanza. It’s not only a way to combine two of my favourite things–my iPhone and books–but also a way I can lie in bed and read that requires even less energy than holding open a book. The phone is smaller, lighter even than some paperbacks, I can see the whole screen without holding […]
Christ. Yeah, it’s Monday. It’s bad enough to see this in some blog or a random comment on an article, but these days, it’s not at all uncommon to see this mistake made in what should be a reasonably respectable publication, or at least a reasonably literate one. I hate it–it makes me cry because […]