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Private Browser Cleaner

By Nick On 2010/08/07 · · In Techie, Techie Stuff

There is so much hoopla about Private Mode browsing not actually keeping you private. Most of it is due to your addons for Flash and Java. Here are the extensions I use to keep the browser private ALWAYS:

Chrome – Click&Clean

Firefox – Click&Clean

Internet Explorer –

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Intel GMA500 Support Matrix

By Nick On 2010/04/11 · · In Techie, Techie Stuff

First a few things:

Intel you suck…suck hard…your own Moblin distro can’t suspend because you feel that “embedded platforms shutdown and restart” Guess what sparky, they don’t always. Fix your damn IEGD driver Dell and Ubuntu screw you both for creating some custom driver to send out on Dell 12 laptops. The driver I install [...]

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Conky Setup

By Nick On 2009/03/29 · · In Personal, Techie Stuff

I love me some eye candy that is actually useful. Conky falls into this category for me. In the olden days it was either gkrellm or a WindowMaker plugin. I have spent some time getting the conky setup EXACTLY how I want it. The results are posted below:

Install:
sudo aptitude install conky lm-sensors [...]

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The History Channel of Today

By Nick On 2008/04/12 · · In Personal, Techie Stuff

There was a time in cable television when channel names insinuated content. Take for example the Military Channel, it is a safe bet there is going to be planes, guns, or other things blowing up from the military viewpoint. 

I can safely turn there after a long day and [...]

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Fix for Skype

By Nick On 2008/02/06 · · In Techie, Techie Stuff

For all those running the Skype 2.0 Beta on Ubuntu Gutsy.

Seems that having Nessus installed will screw up your Qt libraries:

505  cd /opt/nessus/lib/
506  sudo mv libQtCore.so.4 libQtCore.so.old
507  sudo mv libQtGui.so.4 libQtGui.so.old
508  sudo mv libQtXml.so.4 libQtXml.so.old

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