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Nov/09Sync Mozilla Thunderbird Using Dropbox
Overview I have had a Dropbox account for a while now but never really used it till now. There have been really good tricks and uses to Dropbox posted on the Internet and I finally decided to try my hands … Continue reading
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Nov/09WordPress 2.8.6
Just a quick patch to the new version of WordPress.
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Nov/09Ubuntu 9.10 Grub2 No Timeout
I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and found that the timeout doesn’t seem to be working. Grub’s timeout feature allows for automatically boot up into a selected OS after a specified amount of time. By default it’s 10 seconds. … Continue reading
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Nov/09Valve’s Steam And Windows 7 Integration
Valve has done a great work integration Steam with Windows 7. The icon in the taskbar shows the download status of all the currently downloading items. This was demos in my case. I have the Steam icon in my start … Continue reading
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Nov/09GNC 524 Email
My comments were read out by Todd on Geek News Central Podcast #524 Episode 524 Geek News Central
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Nov/09Check GUI Program Is Running In Linux
Overview I have create a bash script to: Check if the program’s process is running If so just quit the script If not start up the program Using this script and crontab it allows the script to be ran every … Continue reading
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Oct/09My Performance Tweaks To Ubuntu
Now that I have a “spare” Linux box I thought I’d try and improve the speed on the box. If it goes kaput I learn and re-install. So here are the ones I found that worked: hdparm This is the … Continue reading
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Oct/09WP 2.8.5
Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.5. A bit late spotting this release