Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Google at work on desktop Linux

Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software. A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as 'Goobuntu'. read more here...

Thursday, January 5, 2006

modifying comments in wordpress

Here is a part 1 write up I found useful and you might too: ColdForged's WordPress Comment Template Deconstructed, Part 1

LaunchBar for Windows

After some searching on the web (and was found by reading recommendation by Alex King on his blog) I downloaded and am using approcket. It is a really slick app. You should try it out.:mrgreen:

Wednesday, January 4, 2006

wp-plugins added

Well I just added wp-last-visit, wp-grins, popularity-content, and wp-mobile. All of these are available via from Alex King's website.

dvd page

I setup my dvd page. I will add the rest of my dvd's when I get time and will try to keep it updated as possible. :twisted: -Later

resident evil

Updated my dvd wanted list. More will come. Should get these pretty soon I would think.

Tuesday, January 3, 2006

Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 AND Linux

Well running Suse 10 and just bought this keyboard With a bunch of changes I got most of the "Special Keys" working. The only 2 keys I was not able to get working were Zoom and Back and Forward Arrows. Zoom doesn't work at all whereas Back and Forward buttons I was able to almost get working but they have strange behavior within Firefox To get these keys to work I ran:

cd /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/chrome
unzip browser.jar
Then opened "contents/browser/browser.xul" in vi and searched for the following lines:



I added 2 lines after that:



saved the file and ran:

zip -rD0 browser.jar content/browser
restarted Firefox and it resulted in response by the browser but not "desired" response.