Category: Software
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Emacs, Japanese, Putty, Windows, and text entry
I don’t know why but I have had to set this up a few times now. If you try writing Japanese via Putty into Emacs, and things do not work for you (instead it looks like Emacs is interpreting things as control characters in some way) then the following magic incantation might help you: ;; […]
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Another brief roundup: cheap ebooks, cool indy games, and a neat graphics library
This is another post mostly for myself so I don’t lose track of some interesting looking things. First up, cheap $1 ebooks from Orbit. It looks like this publisher is selling one ebook per month at $1, which is a deal that you can not pass up, even if the books are DRM-encumbered. I’m seriously […]
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Getting Tomoe to recognize Japanese characters in English on Fedora 10
I recently set up Fedora 10 on a ThinkPad X60 laptop, which has worked very well. I’ll write about that a bit later I think. There are still some issues with the wireless connecting to a WPA2 network, and the Intel 945GM video drivers are apparently pretty crappy right now due to changes in the […]
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MAME Frontends in Ubuntu
I have been interested in getting MAME running on my desktop again. I never got SDLMAME working on Fedora 8 because performance was terrible. For some reason, under Ubuntu with my Intel GMA3100 onboard video things work well enough to play pacman at least (and probably others, SFA2 seemed to work well, but as always […]
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Spinning down external USB hard drives on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Reference links External Drive Standby for Ubuntu This thread (read towards the end) Spin down external drives with sdparm (note tested) So I recently switched to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex from Fedora 8 for no real good reason. Anyway, I have two external 500GB drives that I use for backup, accessing about once a day or […]
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Electric Sheep Beta playing nice with mplayer and xscreensaver on Fedora 8 Linux
I’ve been a fan of the Electric Sheep screensaver for a long time, but I haven’t been running it lately. It turns out that there is now a new linux version, so I thought I would try to install it on my home machine running Fedora 8. The source install went great, I already had […]
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Playing around with the OLPC / XO
OLPC in closed up mode OLPC in notebook mode Transform into ebook mode! OLPC in Ebook mode My family recently came to Japan to meet my wife and her family, and my dad gave me a great toy: an OLPC / XO laptop that he got through the Give one Get One program. I’m excited […]
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First impressions of OSX 10.5 Leopard and Time Capsule
A while ago I bought a 500GB Time Capsule and Leopard at work to use as a backup solution. It took me a while to find the time, but I had a lot of papers to read recently so I installed Leopard and set up the Time Capsule while reading the papers. First off, I’m […]
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Added Gravatar support for comments
This person wrote a Gravatar plugin for bBlog and I set it up here for the comments. I like the idea of Gravatars a lot, so I’ll try them out and see how it goes. If you are interested in the procedure, download the function.gravatar.php file from the website above, throw it in your bBlog_functions […]
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Dave, your forms are EVIL!
A while ago, I got this email from a friend of mine: i left a long comment on your starbucks entry, but i got a character wrong in your CAPTCHA, and it told me to click the “back” button and try again. however, when i did that, all the entries in the form were BLANK! […]