Well we finally got to go to our second sonigram. This one was the one were we could find out the sex of our baby. Apparently our little one is a fiesty bugger because the doctor could not figure it out. He said our baby was very active and never seperated his/her legs. So we [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Check out MacMusings for alot of great articles in helping figure out which Mac to buy. My friend Carol is looking into buying a new Mac and is looking at the slightly older Dual 2.0Ghz G5 machines. They look so awesome and are really fast machines. She uses it for video editing and DVD authoring. [...]
There was some interesting comments in this article about users switching to linux. Makes me think back to when I started using linux for the first time in 1997. It was RedHat 5.2 disk I got from Sams Learn Linux in 24 hours. I’ve had to use other OSs since, but have been using linux [...]
All I can say is wow. The latest VueScan takes advantage of GTK2 on linux and is an awesome app (also runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX). It makes scanning as easy or advanced as you would like and helps turn old pictures and faded shots into photos like they had just been printed. [...]
Check out Josh’s new digs on his site http://josher.blogspot.com
I’ve always had a problem with figuring out permissions in Samba. Today I was looking up some information on it and found this very good description posted on the samba mailing list:
“create mask” *removes* permissions. “force create mode” *adds* them. To quote from the man page for smb.conf
This parameter [create mask] may [...]
Ebay bans other payment processors, only PayPal is allowed.
Published by October 20th, 2005 in diggs. 0 CommentseBay has revised its policies to only allow one online payment service, PayPal. This comes after speculation that Google is preparing a payment service. So far the reaction among eBay users has been mixed.
I think this is just wrong. Ebay should allow any online payment service not just PayPal. Especially since they own PayPal. If [...]
Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW 20.1 LCD $394… It’s Back! And Dell 24″ LCD $780
Published by October 18th, 2005 in diggs. 0 CommentsYeah I bought one when the last deal was going on…got it in next to my 21″ Sony GDM-F520 and the contrast blows my sony out of the water. I paid over $1500 for that friggin CRT! I went ahead and got another 20.1 inch to make it dualies on my humble GeforceFX5900. It will [...]
Finally got pictures from Dad’s 50th birthday and that weekend. There are some nice family pictures as well.
This is an older dig, but I think it is useful (actually found link on slashdot first
The Firemonger project is dedicated to providing an easy to use CD which contains the latest versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, the completely free web browser and email program created by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
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