One issue you have to tackle when you’re out contracting is how to have your own stuff. My bookmarks, my plugins, my IRC client, my instant message client, my Skype, etc. Installing those apps at every client site is time consuming and leaves residual information about you on your client’s machine. Not installing them means [...]
Stop the system bell from going off on reboot.
Complete instructions on how to work around the KDE 4.2.2 “slow trash can” problem.
Using the keyboard to copy/paste or cut/paste in Ubuntu/Kubuntu hasn’t worked without two or more taps on the keys for too long. I finally found a bug on launchpad that discusses the problem and confirms that I’m not the only person seeing it. The bug was opened in April of 2008 and is still [...]
How to fix a non-functioning number pad in Ubuntu.
I’ll be the first one to acknowledge that grazing on Monster.com resumes all day every day is a horrid, horrid job duty. However, if you’re a recruiter at a placement agency, keep in mind a couple of things to get that talent hired…
How to change the volume stepping in Ubuntu when the hardware volume keys on your keyboard or laptop are used.
Before you ask me to re-enter my email address you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’. Here’s why, and what you can do instead.
The new GMail interface is a giant mass of frames and obfuscated JavaScript. Knowing this, Google released an API for Greasemonkey authors to use, called the GmailGreasemonkey10API. Isn’t that nice of them?
Well, don’t get too excited. First, it is fairly limited in what it can do. Its greatest advantage for you is that it can [...]
Frankly I never thought I’d blog about this, but over the last several days I have had this question posed twice and found this issue in a released product.
When you want to wrap text around an element and position that element on the right, you do the obvious and float that element right using CSS. [...]