I’m actually glad I decided to install openSUSE 11.0 because….YaST is usable! If it’s significantly slower than Synaptic, I can’t tell, and since I enabled Packman and a couple of other community repos in addition to the official ones, I was able to install Skype and aMSN without having to install dependencies package-by-package. All I’ve […]

I had openSUSE 10.3 on the laptop, but I hate YaST so much that I vowed to put Ubuntu 8.04 on there this time. Then, I thought I’d “just check” the current version of openSUSE. It turned out to be 11.0, and being something of a nerd, I couldn’t resist “just getting the torrent”, then […]

Can I help it if I’m constructed of 110% pure nerd-awesome? Of course not; I must simply accept my fate. 😀 After WebcamXP crapped out on me for no reason (I didn’t do anything, it just didn’t work after I’d shut down one day, then booted the next), I tried to figure out what was […]

I wanted a video from PBS because it had Alex the African Grey parrot in it. I didn’t want the rest, so my plan was to let it load in Mplayer within Firefox, then save a copy and edit out everything except the bit with Alex. PBS, however, doesn’t allow their videos to be saved, […]

I hadn’t checked Scout in a while, so I did on Monday. The reason that B. makes such a big deal out of it is because he is in some sort of competition with S.. Why? It’s a guy thing, I guess, though I don’t think S. is aware that there’s a competition. Anyway, there […]

If you grew up in Canada anywhere near 1979 and watched more than three minutes of TV, you saw this often. I hadn’t for a very long time, though, and it’s just so…National Film Board of Canada. The lovely voices are Kate and Anna McGarrigle, sisters from Québec (but of obviously Scots descent). Is it […]

I can’t bear local radio, but there are times when I want to listen to new music that I don’t already have in my collection. I hate browser-based players (don’t know why), and I want fast access to my favourite stations without having to scroll through a list. My simple solution was to create a […]

File sharing on Ubuntu was very, very easy, but for some reason, I couldn’t access P’s XP system, and my SUSE laptop couldn’t access some of the partitions on my desktop; specifically one NTFS and one FAT32. I can now do all of the above; I just played Ola’s “Feelgood” (which lives on the FAT32 […]

The internet is global (okay, not in China), and there is absolutely no reason I should read, “Ny singel ute!” on an artist’s official site, see that it is supposedly available on iTunes, then search the iTunes store with zero results simply because the artist is not popular in North America. Magnus Uggla is one […]

Ctrl+H turns showing hidden files on and off “on the fly” without changing the preferences. I know that if I don’t write it somewhere, I’ll forget, but if I write it, I’ll remember it until I die Also, E. is something like I expected, and a lot like I didn’t. Good guy…if I haven’t created […]