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Private Browser Cleaner

August 7, 2010 at 07:09 · Filed under 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 – CCleaner plugin since IE is the suckage

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Intel GMA500 Support Matrix

April 11, 2010 at 10:39 · Filed under 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 now was extracted from your blob. Hate Theo from OpenBSD as much as you want, but no blobs
  • Windows drivers for this card suck pretty bad too. There is a video demo of the GMA500 Poulsbo playing Quake 3 off a MID. The driver in Windows XP-7 cannot play flash without massive frame drops. Totally unacceptable with the 10.1 Flash Beta to still have such trouble

The distro I landed with was Ubuntu 9.10. It pains me because it will never recieve the GNOME 2.30 install, but with PPA I am good with most everything else. I will use this as my hold over until Intel gets off their butts and produces quality code. I used to tell people that the Intel series of cards were the best in UNIX world for out of the box drivers. Yes+but=NO Don’t sour your good name Intel

Link to Support Matrix Spreadsheet if you browser does not support iframe

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Conky Setup

March 29, 2009 at 20:18 · Filed under 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 hddtemp python-feedparser

Extract this file to ~/.bin and make executable. Edit the files for weather.yahoo.com
Conky Scripts

Extract this file to ~/.fonts
Conky Fonts

Extract this file to ~/.conkyrc Be sure to edit the Gmail username for example
Conky RC

Conky Example

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The History Channel of Today

April 12, 2008 at 08:06 · Filed under 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 see my stress melt away with the tonnage of bombs dropped from B-52s. The History Channel used to be an escape for my other secret hobby, history. It has come to my attention after being sick this week that no longer can I depend on the name of History Channel to mean that I will learn some history. Rather new programming  that appeals to the masses of fringe culture (an oxymoron in itself) is plastered from day to day. Alan Jones (or Airman Jones as I knew him long ago) put together a list that truly reflects the programming schedule:

  1. Bigfoot - Sasquatch or Man with Hirsutism
  2. UFO’s – Discovering classified Air Force planes for 50 years
  3. Jesus and the Da Vinci Code – We all know it has been disproved for years, but we are going to show it anyways
  4. Area 51 and the Mystery of Champ - How a large, water-dwelling, reptilian creature was spotted flying over the desert in Nevada and strangely looks a lot like a weather balloon in one fuzzy Polaroid.
Jones added that the worse part of these shows is that they aren’t spread out of the programming schedule. 
Now playing at 3, 6, 9, 1030, and a marathon on Sunday
No truer words Jones, no truer words :)
 

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Fix for Skype

February 6, 2008 at 17:02 · Filed under 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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