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Sat, 20 Jul 2019
Ode Indexette state directory test No. 2 (Jul 20, 2019)
Set umask in vsftpd so incoming files have 644 permissions (Jul 20, 2019)
File permissions and ownership that make Ode's Indexette work on a Debian Buster server (Jul 20, 2019)
Ode Indexette state directory test No. 3 (Jul 20, 2019)
Ode Indexette state directory test (Jul 20, 2019)
Sun, 14 Jul 2019
Permissions are hard (Jul 14, 2019)
Shared hosting does take care of a lot for you (Jul 14, 2019)
Setting up FTP on my Pi (Jul 14, 2019)
Wed, 26 Jun 2019
My current fix for the Conexant-Flow.Exe-Firefox issue (Jun 26, 2019)
Tue, 25 Jun 2019
Stanley Jordan, two-handed-tapping jazz phenom, sounds even better today (Jun 25, 2019)
Unison works between Ubuntu and NearlyFreeSpeech.net's FreeBSD, so blog migration is a go (Jun 25, 2019)
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
Romain Vuillermin and Serge Merlaud sounds so good playing 'Lullaby of Birdland' on vintage Gibson acoustic archtops (Jun 18, 2019)
My beautiful Linux development environment by Deepu K. Sasidharan (Jun 18, 2019)
Mon, 27 May 2019
A quick recap of the Fedora 30 upgrade (May 27, 2019)
Sun, 26 May 2019
Molly Miller Trio - 'Something Stupid' (May 26, 2019)
Wed, 22 May 2019
Pat Metheny - Secret Story Live 1992 (May 22, 2019)
Pat Metheny Trio: 'Giant Steps' (May 22, 2019)
'Giant Steps,' vocal by Camille Bertault with Nelson Faria on guitar (May 22, 2019)
Wed, 15 May 2019
Julian Lage - 'I'll Be Seeing You' - I play this video at least once a week (May 15, 2019)
Thu, 09 May 2019
Miles Okazaki's six-volume 'Work' includes every Thelonious Monk composition played on solo guitar (May 09, 2019)
Mon, 06 May 2019
I can't host my sites on the 'free' tier of Google Cloud Platform unless I want to pay (May 06, 2019)
The problem with Windows 10, Conexant, Firefox and Flow.exe continues, and this is how I'm fixing it right now (May 06, 2019)
Tue, 30 Apr 2019
How to get H.264 video working in Chromium on Fedora (Apr 30, 2019)
Sun, 21 Apr 2019
Google Cloud Platform uses storage 'buckets' to bring files into the system (Apr 21, 2019)
Sun, 07 Apr 2019
Running a small VM on Google Cloud is pretty much like running a small server anywhere (Apr 07, 2019)
How do you choose a cloud-computing platform? (Apr 07, 2019)
Wed, 20 Mar 2019
Another way to solve the problem with Windows 10, the Conexant audio driver, Firefox and Flow (Mar 20, 2019)
Fri, 15 Mar 2019
How to watch video with the Chromium browser in Fedora 29 (Mar 15, 2019)
Sat, 09 Feb 2019
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 played by Anna Fedorova and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Feb 09, 2019)
Thu, 07 Feb 2019
Syncthing allows you to host your own file-syncing service WITHOUT A SERVER and leave Dropbox, Google and Microsoft out of it (Feb 07, 2019)
Tue, 29 Jan 2019
Video: Introducing Mozart's Clarinet (Jan 29, 2019)
Videos: From the clavichord to the modern piano (Jan 29, 2019)
Sat, 12 Jan 2019
My article on SICP and HtDP was linked on Hacker News, and here's what I said in the comment thread (Jan 12, 2019)
Wed, 09 Jan 2019
I have a new domain (Jan 09, 2019)
Migrating this blog to https (Jan 09, 2019)
Using Fedora Modularity in Fedora 28 (Jan 09, 2019)
Thu, 13 Dec 2018
Cygwin and Unison, trying again (and failing) (Dec 13, 2018)
David Rawlings: 'Midnight Train,' live on WFUV (Dec 13, 2018)
Wed, 21 Nov 2018
David Rawlings and Gillian Welch: 'Airplane' and 'The Trip' (Nov 21, 2018)
Sun, 18 Nov 2018
A local web-based program might not be such a bad idea (Nov 18, 2018)
Wed, 31 Oct 2018
Cygwin troubles with Unison (Oct 31, 2018)
Tue, 30 Oct 2018
Cygwin and the Windows Subsystem for Linux, when to use one and not the other (Oct 30, 2018)
Mon, 22 Oct 2018
Ana Vidovic plays 'Asturias' by Isaac Albéniz (Oct 22, 2018)
'Classical Gas' by Mason Williams (Oct 22, 2018)
Mon, 08 Oct 2018
That was a spectacular SpaceX launch in the skies to the northwest of Los Angeles (Oct 08, 2018)
Wed, 19 Sep 2018
Soundslice makes this the best Ted Greene video ever (Sep 19, 2018)
Mon, 17 Sep 2018
Everything doesn't have to be a web program (Sep 17, 2018)
Tue, 11 Sep 2018
Tuck's Corner lives in the Wayback Machine (Sep 11, 2018)
Video: Tuck Andress plays 'Europa' (Sep 11, 2018)
Fri, 03 Aug 2018
The B-52s: 'Give Me Back My Man' (Aug 03, 2018)
Thu, 12 Jul 2018
Social-style entries generated by my BlogPoster script are now going directly to the Updates site (Jul 12, 2018)
Wed, 11 Jul 2018
It's 2018, and I'm still dealing with suspend/resume issues in Fedora 28 on my 5-year-old HP laptop (Jul 11, 2018)
Mon, 09 Jul 2018
I'm running Fedora the way the Fedora people want me to run Fedora (Jul 09, 2018)
Wed, 20 Jun 2018
An intense 'My Favorite Things' from John Coltrane's late-period 'Live at the Village Vanguard Again!' album (Jun 20, 2018)
Wed, 30 May 2018
Mind-blowing Vim tip: Ctrl-[ is esc (May 30, 2018)
Wed, 16 May 2018
Fedora 28: I'm trying to keep it simple (May 16, 2018)
Fedora pro tip: Install Dropbox from the RPM Fusion repository, not the Dropbbox repo (May 16, 2018)
Getting your Ruby development environment together in Fedora (May 16, 2018)
Tue, 15 May 2018
Clojure episodes from the CaSE Podcast -- and they have transcripts (May 15, 2018)
Fri, 11 May 2018
Rob Reed has a new Ode theme, and I really want to try it (May 11, 2018)
The Fedora 28 upgrade broke my F27 system, and I reinstalled F28 to 'save' it (May 11, 2018)
Use Git GUI to create empty files in Windows (May 11, 2018)
Thu, 03 May 2018
How to create an empty file at the Windows command line (May 03, 2018)
Tue, 24 Apr 2018
A messy ending to the installation of JDK 10 in Windows (Apr 24, 2018)
Mon, 23 Apr 2018
Social-style updates are moving to updates.stevenrosenberg.net (Apr 23, 2018)
Miles Davis - Miles in the Sky (1968) (Apr 23, 2018)
Fri, 13 Apr 2018
Where is the Ode software? (Apr 13, 2018)
Fri, 06 Apr 2018
My new Ode microblogging site is live (Apr 06, 2018)
Thu, 05 Apr 2018
Take a deeper dive with Ode documentation (Apr 05, 2018)
Johnny Cash: 'Ring of Fire' live in 1968 at the Grand Ole Opry (Apr 05, 2018)
Wed, 04 Apr 2018
Separating functions in programming (Apr 04, 2018)
Using Vim in my project has really helped my skills in that editor (Apr 04, 2018)
Hunting the random \n (Apr 04, 2018)
Thu, 22 Mar 2018
What is Reason, the programming language? (Mar 22, 2018)
Mon, 19 Mar 2018
Starting Windows 10 cold and then opening up a bunch of Google Chrome tabs is painful (Mar 19, 2018)
Fri, 16 Mar 2018
I finally have Puppy Linux's Xenialpup set up for Ruby (Mar 16, 2018)
I am still working on my BlogPoster app (Mar 16, 2018)
Mon, 26 Feb 2018
If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP? (Feb 26, 2018)
The Symbolics Lisp Machine was a real thing (Feb 26, 2018)
Thu, 15 Feb 2018
I am trying to make the Xenialpup version of Puppy Linux work for me (Feb 15, 2018)
Showtime's 'I'm Dying Up Here': Comic timing ... and parking (Feb 15, 2018)
Wed, 07 Feb 2018
Pragmatic Programmers, No Starch Press, Manning Books, Packt and Apress fill void left by O'Reilly Media (Feb 07, 2018)
Tue, 30 Jan 2018
Use an .htaccess rewrite to force trailing slashes at the end of URLs (Jan 30, 2018)
Ruby String Methods (Ultimate Guide) - a great tutorial from rubyguides.com (Jan 30, 2018)
Mon, 29 Jan 2018
How to change permissions on all directories in a directory while leaving the files alone (Jan 29, 2018)
Reading Clojure by Ricardo J. Méndez (Jan 29, 2018)
Mon, 15 Jan 2018
Use the Twitter API instead of a third-party service (Jan 15, 2018)
My whole posting setup is big-social-network-optional (Jan 15, 2018)
Giving Ubuntu 17.10 a try (don't worry, it's one of the new ISOs) (Jan 15, 2018)
How to get a free static website with SSL from Gitlab (Jan 15, 2018)
Sun, 14 Jan 2018
Handling potential errors in Ruby with begin/rescue/else (Jan 14, 2018)
Sat, 13 Jan 2018
Fedora 27 on my HD-screen HP Envy laptop (Jan 13, 2018)
Wed, 27 Dec 2017
Steady work on rewrite of the BlogPoster app (Dec 27, 2017)
Thu, 21 Dec 2017
Regular expressions in JavaScript (Dec 21, 2017)
The Twitter 'like' symbol is a ❤ and should be a 👍 (Dec 21, 2017)
Fri, 15 Dec 2017
How to set file permissions from within Vim (Dec 15, 2017)
Thu, 14 Dec 2017
How to make your HTML responsive by adding a single line of CSS | freeCodeCamp (Dec 14, 2017)
How to leave white space on both sides of the page in an HTML document (Dec 14, 2017)
Tue, 21 Nov 2017
My Blog Poster app works well in Ubuntu (ok, really Lubuntu) Linux (Nov 21, 2017)
Sat, 18 Nov 2017
Procedural vs. object-oriented: How should you code? (Nov 18, 2017)
I have too many tabs open to use Firefox (Nov 18, 2017)
Fix Windows Hello (facial recognition) on HP laptop (or probably any laptop) after Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Nov 18, 2017)
Fri, 17 Nov 2017
Windows 10 is really not that bad (Nov 17, 2017)
Wed, 15 Nov 2017
I set the intonation on a Fender guitar for the first time (Nov 15, 2017)
New Firefox is the real deal but hasn't beaten Chrome yet (Nov 15, 2017)
Tue, 14 Nov 2017
John Stowell live in The Sound Room at WEEU-AM 830 in Reading, PA (Nov 14, 2017)
They are not lying. The new Firefox is really fast (Nov 14, 2017)
Sun, 12 Nov 2017
A dedicated social blog? (Nov 12, 2017)
'Big Little Lies': Best thing on TV in months (Nov 12, 2017)
Sat, 11 Nov 2017
I have a "now" category (Nov 11, 2017)
Why can Ruby call Vim in read/write mode in Linux but read-only in Windows? (Nov 11, 2017)
Thu, 09 Nov 2017
Overcoming a permission error while using Ruby to move files (Nov 09, 2017)
Tue, 07 Nov 2017
Squarespace can be your online store and website (Nov 07, 2017)
Sun, 05 Nov 2017
Top 8 Van Halen songs (Nov 05, 2017)
Mon, 30 Oct 2017
IFTTT should send this post (Oct 30, 2017)
Wed, 25 Oct 2017
Automatic social posts - the last mile (Oct 25, 2017)
Expanding the Blog Poster app to allow for different target directories (Oct 25, 2017)
Mon, 23 Oct 2017
The Ruby Terminal Apps Toolkit could solve many problems (Oct 23, 2017)
I got an automatic Java update in Windows (Oct 23, 2017)
Sat, 21 Oct 2017
My blog-posting program in Ruby (Oct 21, 2017)
Fri, 13 Oct 2017
How to back up your /home directory in the Windows Subsystem for Linux without losing permissions before killing your old WSL and installing a new one from the Windows Store (Oct 13, 2017)
Sun, 24 Sep 2017
I'm thinking about OpenBSD again (Sep 24, 2017)
Sun, 17 Sep 2017
Building a Twitter clone with Meteor (Sep 17, 2017)
Tue, 12 Sep 2017
How do I make this program? (Sep 12, 2017)
There IS a place to recycle household batteries in the San Fernando Valley, even on weekdays (Sep 12, 2017)
Sat, 05 Aug 2017
I use these razor blade - I buy them by the 100-count box (Aug 05, 2017)
These are the guitar strings I'm using right now (Aug 05, 2017)
I just tried Dunlop Ultraglide 65 String Cleaner and Conditioner (Aug 05, 2017)
Tue, 01 Aug 2017
Upgrade to PHP 7.1 on CentOS (Aug 01, 2017)
Mon, 31 Jul 2017
How does IFTTT make money? (Jul 31, 2017)
This is a test of IFTTT blog entry posting. (Jul 31, 2017)
I created two IFTTT applets for social and 'other' posts (Jul 31, 2017)
My IFTTT social-post applet works (Jul 31, 2017)
dlvr.it limits free users to 10 posts per day (Jul 31, 2017)
Wed, 26 Jul 2017
Free book: The JavaScript Way (Jul 26, 2017)
Tue, 18 Jul 2017
At least on Windows 10 in 2017, OpenShot is (mostly) useless (Jul 18, 2017)
Sat, 15 Jul 2017
Meteor Forums: Why I fell in love with Meteor (Jul 15, 2017)
Sat, 08 Jul 2017
'Learn Ruby on Rails' by Daniel Kehoe updated for Rails 5.1 (Jul 08, 2017)
Tue, 04 Jul 2017
Mozilla convinced me to try Firefox Focus for Android (Jul 04, 2017)
Sun, 02 Jul 2017
7 Strengths of #ReactJS Every Programmer Should Know About (Jul 02, 2017)
Sun, 18 Jun 2017
Debian 9.0 Stretch is the new Stable (Jun 18, 2017)
Eloquent Javascript, Chapter 3 (Functions) -- what the hell? (Jun 18, 2017)
Tue, 13 Jun 2017
Sitepoint: How I Designed & Built a Fullstack JavaScript Trello Clone (Jun 13, 2017)
Sat, 10 Jun 2017
Java and the Windows command prompt (Jun 10, 2017)
Things I did in Windows 10: Add Java and Groovy, fix Geany for HD display (Jun 10, 2017)
Mon, 05 Jun 2017
Writing on phones and tablets sucks (Jun 05, 2017)
Tue, 30 May 2017
To run Node in Debian and Ubuntu, install nodejs and nodejs-legacy (May 30, 2017)
Sun, 21 May 2017
Software-defined radio kits available (May 21, 2017)
Sat, 20 May 2017
New laptop, new OS (May 20, 2017)
Wed, 17 May 2017
Fedora, SUSE and easier installation coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux (May 17, 2017)
Wed, 10 May 2017
Microsoft Edge vs. Google Chrome vs. Firefox (May 10, 2017)
Tue, 09 May 2017
Javascript digital clock (May 09, 2017)
Sun, 30 Apr 2017
Is this blog for you or me? (Apr 30, 2017)
Tue, 18 Apr 2017
How to 'hold' a package in Ubuntu and prevent it from being updated (Apr 18, 2017)
Mon, 17 Apr 2017
I reinstalled the Windows Subsystem for Linux, got a new Ubuntu LTS and now have my scripts back (Apr 17, 2017)
Sun, 16 Apr 2017
Sharpening my Vim skills in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Apr 16, 2017)
Fri, 14 Apr 2017
Windows 10 update hoses my laptop (Apr 14, 2017)
Wed, 12 Apr 2017
The Node in the Windows Subsystem for Linux is so old, I installed Node for Windows (Apr 12, 2017)
Fri, 07 Apr 2017
This is what happens when you create a file in the Windows Subsystem for Linux and try to edit it with a Windows application (Apr 07, 2017)
Wed, 05 Apr 2017
Managing Ode with Unison via the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Apr 05, 2017)
Tue, 04 Apr 2017
Make a website with Ember - great introduction to a framework (Apr 04, 2017)
Thu, 30 Mar 2017
React-Redux links by Mark Erikson (Mar 30, 2017)
Wed, 29 Mar 2017
Using highlight.js for code syntax highlighting on your web site (Mar 29, 2017)
Eloquent JavaScript - Chapter 2 exercises - Fizz Buzz (Mar 29, 2017)
Thu, 23 Mar 2017
Coming over to the dark side (Mar 23, 2017)
Tue, 28 Feb 2017
WordPress WordAds revenue expectations are depressing (Feb 28, 2017)
WP-CLI is so very, very cool (Feb 28, 2017)
I still have blogs littered all over the place (Feb 28, 2017)
Mon, 27 Feb 2017
I finally replaced my HP Pavilion g6 keyboard (Feb 27, 2017)
Fri, 24 Feb 2017
'Big Bang Theory's' Stuart wears Ubuntu T-shirt (Feb 24, 2017)
Mon, 20 Feb 2017
Fixing Fedora 25 upgrade issue with iptables (Feb 20, 2017)
Fri, 03 Feb 2017
At jury duty, and boy are my arms tired (Feb 03, 2017)
Mon, 16 Jan 2017
There is an rsync for Windows, and it works (Jan 16, 2017)
Sun, 15 Jan 2017
Check out the Categories feature in the right column (Jan 15, 2017)
Wed, 11 Jan 2017
Preloaded Linux laptops are probably not encrypted (Jan 11, 2017)
Tue, 03 Jan 2017
Adding memory to a laptop when they don't want you to add memory (Jan 03, 2017)
Sun, 01 Jan 2017
JavaScript books for 2017 (Jan 01, 2017)
Sat, 31 Dec 2016
The guitar is wood and strings and fingers (Dec 31, 2016)
Cut down a #4 coffee filter into a #2 (Dec 31, 2016)
Wed, 28 Dec 2016
Eric Elliott on JavaScript (Dec 28, 2016)
Mon, 26 Dec 2016
A Chicago song I actually like (Dec 26, 2016)
Fri, 16 Dec 2016
Ode is a strong performer (Dec 16, 2016)
Wed, 07 Dec 2016
Text processing in node (i.e. in JavaScript) (Dec 07, 2016)
XML to JSON in Javascript with enkidootech's xml2json (Dec 07, 2016)
Tue, 06 Dec 2016
CodePen: JavaScript Basics 2: Arrays and Loops (Dec 06, 2016)
CodePen: JavaScript Basics 1: Functions and Variables (Dec 06, 2016)
Thu, 01 Dec 2016
I tried to tweak my Fedora settings in KDE Plasma, and it screwed up everything in GNOME and Xfce (Dec 01, 2016)
Wed, 30 Nov 2016
Basic operations for arrays in Ruby (Nov 30, 2016)
Thu, 24 Nov 2016
I did the Fedora 25 upgrade (Nov 24, 2016)
Mon, 21 Nov 2016
JavaScript for Cats recommends Underscore.js (Nov 21, 2016)
Thu, 17 Nov 2016
Disqus -- thanks for fixing your Admin interface (Nov 17, 2016)
Sun, 06 Nov 2016
Well-used laptops don't last forever (Nov 06, 2016)
No more replacement keys, I'm just going to replace the entire keyboard (Nov 06, 2016)
Sat, 05 Nov 2016
Can you use JavaScript and Node instead of traditional shell scripts? (Nov 05, 2016)
This Fedora install still kicking after SIX upgrades (Nov 05, 2016)
Sun, 30 Oct 2016
The Archtop.com "sold" list - a treasure trove of guitar history (Oct 30, 2016)
Sat, 22 Oct 2016
The squeak in the plumbing (Oct 22, 2016)
Tue, 18 Oct 2016
Back to Xfce after a week in GNOME 3 ... again (Oct 18, 2016)
Wed, 12 Oct 2016
Don't hate me because I'm back in GNOME 3 (Oct 12, 2016)
I am trying Shutter as my GNOME screenshot program (Oct 12, 2016)
Thu, 06 Oct 2016
Converting WordPress posts to files for a static site (Oct 06, 2016)
Wed, 05 Oct 2016
I bring the Blogger version of The CTRL Freak to Ode, plus a tally of what's left to move (Oct 05, 2016)
Tue, 04 Oct 2016
Blogging over the years: bringing it all together (Oct 04, 2016)
Tue, 27 Sep 2016
Back to Xfce after screwing around with KDE/Plasma and GNOME 3 (Sep 27, 2016)
Mon, 26 Sep 2016
Video: Swing expert Jonathan Stout plays 'It's Only a Paper Moon' on a 1929 Gibson L-5 at Norman's Rare Guitars, and then I keep on writing ... (Sep 26, 2016)
Fri, 23 Sep 2016
Ford to city: drop dead (Sep 23, 2016)
Headless body in topless bar (Sep 23, 2016)
Sticks nix hick pix (Sep 23, 2016)
Thu, 15 Sep 2016
I'm using the KDE Plasma desktop - and liking it (Sep 15, 2016)
Mon, 12 Sep 2016
Using Dir.glob to delete files with a pattern in Ruby (Sep 12, 2016)
Sat, 10 Sep 2016
The rubyzip gem for creating and opening archives (Sep 10, 2016)
Thu, 25 Aug 2016
Do I really need your app? Do I want it? Do I have space for it? (Aug 25, 2016)
Mon, 22 Aug 2016
Keep Fedora's dnf from upgrading certain packages (Aug 22, 2016)
Sun, 21 Aug 2016
ReplacementLaptopKeys.com comes through again (Aug 21, 2016)
Thu, 18 Aug 2016
Do broken apps in Fedora mean I should turn to Ubuntu? (Aug 18, 2016)
Wed, 27 Jul 2016
Free textbook on mathematics for computer science (before you study algorithms) (Jul 27, 2016)
Sun, 24 Jul 2016
One-man Colorado newspaper still uses hot type (Jul 24, 2016)
Fri, 22 Jul 2016
I'm doing the Fedora 23 to 24 upgrade (Jul 22, 2016)
Mon, 11 Jul 2016
Get a free programming/tech book every weekday from Packt Publishing (Jul 11, 2016)
Thu, 07 Jul 2016
Fix for Ubuntu 16.04 with Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 WiFi adapter and Time Warner modem (Jul 07, 2016)
Thu, 16 Jun 2016
The Bastards Book of Ruby (Jun 16, 2016)
Using Ruby to delete blocks of text across multiple lines (Jun 16, 2016)
Wed, 15 Jun 2016
A great Ruby loops tutorial from Prograils (Jun 15, 2016)
Tue, 14 Jun 2016
I used Firefox a bunch (Jun 14, 2016)
Quick Ruby: Open and write a file (Jun 14, 2016)
Sun, 12 Jun 2016
Learning Ruby: Loops and arrays (Jun 12, 2016)
Fri, 10 Jun 2016
Ruby for Admins (Jun 10, 2016)
Thu, 09 Jun 2016
I finished my CS class and finished another Election Night script (Jun 09, 2016)
Tue, 24 May 2016
Xfce's Thunar file manager is updated to fix crashes (May 24, 2016)
Fri, 20 May 2016
x2js for XML to and from JSON conversion in JavaScript, the Crack gem in Ruby and more (May 20, 2016)
Sun, 15 May 2016
Converting XML to JSON in JavaScript and learning what you need to do when you need to do it (May 15, 2016)
Sun, 10 Apr 2016
Have you heard of Blankenship Amp Repair and ARS Electronics, both in Van Nuys? (Apr 10, 2016)
Tue, 08 Mar 2016
I learned a couple of things about Ode add-ins (and Perl in general) today (Mar 08, 2016)
Mon, 29 Feb 2016
Update on the Counter addin, version 3, for Ode sites (Feb 29, 2016)
Mon, 01 Feb 2016
Learning more Perl for my Ode Counter add-in (Feb 01, 2016)
Sat, 30 Jan 2016
Computer science and me and computer science and me (Jan 30, 2016)
Thu, 28 Jan 2016
Linux advice: How to get started with Debian (or any Linux) web server (Jan 28, 2016)
Sat, 23 Jan 2016
I'm enjoying GNOME 3 today. That is all. (Jan 23, 2016)
Wed, 20 Jan 2016
Geany builds Java and C++ programs, does it on everything (Jan 20, 2016)
Wed, 13 Jan 2016
Revisiting GNOME's Web (aka Epiphany) browser (Jan 13, 2016)
How to do a slide presentation with Ode (Jan 13, 2016)
The Counter addin, version 2, for Ode sites (Jan 13, 2016)
Mon, 04 Jan 2016
Free C++ books -- great list from @TFETimes (Jan 04, 2016)
Sun, 03 Jan 2016
Geany is the IDE for people who don't understand IDEs (Jan 03, 2016)
Things I'm going to do in 2016 to further my programming goals (Jan 03, 2016)
Thu, 31 Dec 2015
Things Fedora 23 fixes: Yumex DNF display with dark theme (Dec 31, 2015)
Google Chrome EditEdit issue in Fedora 23 (Dec 31, 2015)
Tue, 29 Dec 2015
Great Fedora Magazine interview with Kevin Fenzi (Dec 29, 2015)
Mon, 28 Dec 2015
Getting started with blog advertising (Dec 28, 2015)
Sat, 26 Dec 2015
Generate a random number between 1 and 100 in JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Groovy, Perl and Bash (Dec 26, 2015)
Tue, 22 Dec 2015
Own your social entries, create them from any device (Dec 22, 2015)
Sat, 19 Dec 2015
Personality type: I'm an INTP (Dec 19, 2015)
Fri, 18 Dec 2015
The problem with packages -- and I mean actual boxes that Amazon delivers to your doorstep (Dec 18, 2015)
Blogging without Internet is easy when you're just writing text files (Dec 18, 2015)
Fedora 22 with Xfce deep into the cycle -- most 'stable' Fedora release ever for my laptop (Dec 18, 2015)
Wed, 16 Dec 2015
O, Change Case add-on for Google Docs, you complete me, or at least supply a must-have feature (Dec 16, 2015)
Tue, 15 Dec 2015
I re-rebuilt the Dishmaster faucet again, plus re-did shower valve job (Dec 15, 2015)
Fri, 04 Dec 2015
'Learn Linux in a Month of Lunches' by Steven Ovadia (Dec 04, 2015)
Thu, 19 Nov 2015
Watch Hulu on Fedora Linux with the fakehal package and Netflix without it (Nov 19, 2015)
Tue, 17 Nov 2015
Are search and social-media links to paywalled content a bait-and-switch? (Nov 17, 2015)
Sat, 14 Nov 2015
Ernie Ball Power Slinky strings on the Fender Lead I, plus musing on guitars in general (Nov 14, 2015)
Thu, 12 Nov 2015
Adding Java, Perl, Ruby and Node to Windows (Nov 12, 2015)
Me and Unix and the '80s (Nov 12, 2015)
Mon, 09 Nov 2015
I am reading 'Learning to Program' by Steven Foote (Nov 09, 2015)
Wed, 04 Nov 2015
The Fedora Developer Portal (Nov 04, 2015)
Fri, 30 Oct 2015
Fix for Firefox dark theme issues in GNOME 3 (Oct 30, 2015)
Sat, 24 Oct 2015
Ode test of the dollar sign (Oct 24, 2015)
Thu, 22 Oct 2015
Geany DOES have themes, and now I do, too (Oct 22, 2015)
Fri, 16 Oct 2015
Fedora 22 PulseAudio HDMI issue solves itself (Oct 16, 2015)
Tue, 13 Oct 2015
Virgin Mobile LG Tribute users: Finally get the LS660ZV6_01_update to work (Oct 13, 2015)
Mon, 12 Oct 2015
I removed the social-sharing buttons from this blog (Oct 12, 2015)
Sun, 11 Oct 2015
Installing Citrix on Linux: Guides for the perplexed (Oct 11, 2015)
Thu, 08 Oct 2015
Debian Jessie fails passes Citrix ICA test, which just like Fedora passes easily (Oct 08, 2015)
Tue, 06 Oct 2015
Solution for update fatigue in Fedora Linux (Oct 06, 2015)
Mon, 28 Sep 2015
Working on my networking issue after suspend/resume in Fedora 22 (Sep 28, 2015)
Sat, 26 Sep 2015
Rebuilding GRUB 2 entries in Fedora 22 for UEFI systems after modifying /etc/default/grub (Sep 26, 2015)
Tue, 22 Sep 2015
How to fix LibreOffice spell check in Fedora 22 (Sep 22, 2015)
Sun, 13 Sep 2015
I build an app, Part 1: Hashes (aka key-value pairs) are easy in JavaScript (and even in Java) ... plus my coding bio (Sep 13, 2015)
Wed, 09 Sep 2015
Playing with Java arrays and JavaScript objects (Sep 09, 2015)
Wed, 26 Aug 2015
Use Firefox to find the right certificate for Citrix to beat SSL Error 61 (Aug 26, 2015)
Sun, 23 Aug 2015
Bash script that mounts drive, backs up with rsync (Aug 23, 2015)
Learning Java - why and how (Aug 23, 2015)
Fri, 07 Aug 2015
My new coding regimen (Aug 07, 2015)
Wed, 05 Aug 2015
Running GNOME 3.16 in Fedora 22 (Aug 05, 2015)
Sat, 25 Jul 2015
Still using Linux, just not talking/reading/obsessing about it (Jul 25, 2015)
Wed, 15 Jul 2015
Filezilla working again in Fedora 22 (Jul 15, 2015)
Fri, 10 Jul 2015
Using dlvr.it to split my regular and 'social' posts out of Ode (Jul 10, 2015)
Sun, 05 Jul 2015
Learning Go: create a web server in five lines (Jul 05, 2015)
Sun, 21 Jun 2015
I wrote my Ode Indexette time-stamp program in golang (Jun 21, 2015)
Sat, 06 Jun 2015
I love the design of wit.io (Jun 06, 2015)
Sat, 30 May 2015
Getting rid of workspaces in GNOME 3 (May 30, 2015)
Tue, 26 May 2015
Gear review: The iRig 2 guitar interface to iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (May 26, 2015)
Dodgy Windows 8 leads to me running Citrix on Fedora Linux (May 26, 2015)
Static blogging systems written in Ruby (May 26, 2015)
Trying to remove LXDE from Fedora 21 breaks Xfce, and why Fedora makes for a sturdy Citrix platform (May 26, 2015)
Mon, 27 Apr 2015
The Latvian-coded ONLYOFFICE adds document server for Linux (Apr 27, 2015)
Thu, 02 Apr 2015
Have you heard of ONLYOFFICE? It's like Google Docs, only it's not from Google ... and you might be able to run your own instance (Apr 02, 2015)
Printing in Linux with the HP LaserJet 1020: The 2015 edition (Apr 02, 2015)
Wed, 01 Apr 2015
Reddit: Why do developers choose OS X over Linux? (Apr 01, 2015)
Mon, 23 Mar 2015
Test your (or any) web site’s availability with Apache’s ab utility (Mar 23, 2015)
Sat, 07 Mar 2015
PulseCaster records both sides of your conversation - and I can confirm that it works (Mar 07, 2015)
Tue, 03 Mar 2015
Xfce 4.12 Copr repos available for Fedora 20 and 21 (Mar 03, 2015)
Wed, 25 Feb 2015
How to turn on tap-to-click in LXDE on Fedora 21 (Feb 25, 2015)
Sun, 22 Feb 2015
Jono Bacon: Too much hierarchy kills your company, community, family (and anything else) (Feb 22, 2015)
Mon, 16 Feb 2015
What is 8th? A cross-platform development environment/language ... but there's a $199 catch (Feb 16, 2015)
Wed, 14 Jan 2015
Answers from a Fedora Xfce developer (Jan 14, 2015)
Sat, 03 Jan 2015
Strehler is a new CMS built with Perl and the Dancer2 Framework (Jan 03, 2015)
Fri, 19 Dec 2014
I'm running Fedora 21 with Wayland, and so far (almost) everything is working just fine (Dec 19, 2014)
Tue, 16 Dec 2014
This is an Ode Markdown formatting test (Dec 16, 2014)
Fri, 12 Dec 2014
Fedora 20 confession: Now that F21 is out, I'm enjoying the quiet (Dec 12, 2014)
Sat, 06 Dec 2014
Keybase: Cryptography and keys made easier (Dec 06, 2014)
Thu, 04 Dec 2014
Unhappy Node.js users fork the Joyent-run project, creating community-driven io.js (Dec 04, 2014)
Wed, 03 Dec 2014
So I did a Fedora 21 install, and the Anaconda installer was efficient and super quick (Dec 03, 2014)
Thu, 27 Nov 2014
The secret to successful suspend/resume in Linux on the HP Pavilion g6-2210us (Nov 27, 2014)
Fri, 21 Nov 2014
Two Debian Jessie firmware packages that make the HP Pavilion g6-2210us run better (Nov 21, 2014)
Thu, 13 Nov 2014
Why OpenBSD runs so hot on AMD A4 APU hardware -- and how to cool it down 20 degrees C (Nov 13, 2014)
Mon, 27 Oct 2014
I just installed the TopIcons extension to GNOME Shell (Oct 27, 2014)
Fri, 24 Oct 2014
Matt Asay on why PostgreSQL is suddenly cool (Oct 24, 2014)
Thu, 23 Oct 2014
Ars Technica looks back at 10 years of Ubuntu: The hopes, the dreams, the kerfuffles (Oct 23, 2014)
Tue, 21 Oct 2014
The Debian Jessie installer: first impressions -- desktop choice (yay), encryption fail (boo) (Oct 21, 2014)
Catalyst/fglrx trouble in Debian (and not just in Fedora) (Oct 21, 2014)
Tue, 14 Oct 2014
Developer of Stella, the best CentOS-based distro for the desktop, not looking to create a CentOS 7 version any time soon (Oct 14, 2014)
Dietrich T. Schmitz of Linux Advocates likes Fedora 21 Workstation (Oct 14, 2014)
Thu, 09 Oct 2014
So I'm totally into Reddit right now (Oct 09, 2014)
Fri, 26 Sep 2014
I turned off automatic Windows updates (Sep 26, 2014)
Thu, 25 Sep 2014
With dodgy broadband on dodgy apps via Citrix, I turn to Windows 8 (Sep 25, 2014)
Wed, 24 Sep 2014
Hammering hard on Xfce 4.10 in Fedora 20 (Sep 24, 2014)
Sure we need to kill e-mail dead, but here's an article with some interesting alternatives (Sep 24, 2014)
Mon, 15 Sep 2014
I started my personal Fedora Wiki page (Sep 15, 2014)
Fri, 12 Sep 2014
Ruby's 'insert' method is something I'm definitely going to use (Sep 12, 2014)
Sat, 23 Aug 2014
Why I don't distro-hop: Because work. And pain. (Aug 23, 2014)
Thu, 21 Aug 2014
Another great experience in Fedora bug reporting: Wine font fix solves my web-browsing problem (Aug 21, 2014)
Sat, 16 Aug 2014
Font changes on this Ode site (Aug 16, 2014)
A new Ode site: Surface Markup development blog (Aug 16, 2014)
Fri, 08 Aug 2014
Jordi Mallach says GNOME should remain the default desktop environment in Debian Jessie -- and why I agree (Aug 08, 2014)
Wed, 06 Aug 2014
Installing the AMD Catalyst driver in RHEL or CentOS 7 (Aug 06, 2014)
Tue, 05 Aug 2014
How to get Google Chrome to stop crashing while running the AMD Catalyst driver in Linux (Aug 05, 2014)
Sat, 02 Aug 2014
Lubuntu craps out, and I'm now auditioning Debian and Fedora for an ancient Thinkpad (Aug 02, 2014)
Sat, 26 Jul 2014
Working Saturday, sweating it out (Jul 26, 2014)
Internet, you bore me (Jul 26, 2014)
Sat, 19 Jul 2014
Am I the only person who can't run Google Chrome under Linux with the AMD Catalyst driver? (Jul 19, 2014)
Fri, 18 Jul 2014
One year, two months with Fedora this time around (Jul 18, 2014)
Wed, 16 Jul 2014
Debian Developer switches to Mac, doesn't look back (and yes, we should be worried) (Jul 16, 2014)
Wed, 09 Jul 2014
AMD Catalyst packages for Fedora 19 still work with 3.15.x Linux kernel in Fedora 20 (Jul 09, 2014)
Tue, 08 Jul 2014
Stella 7 is on its way (Jul 08, 2014)
There's a CentOS 7 'Everything' image -- and a new Stella is in the works (Jul 08, 2014)
Mon, 07 Jul 2014
Update: Can I really encrypt files and folders with Seahorse? I install seahorse-nautilus in Fedora 20 to find out (Jul 07, 2014)
Wed, 25 Jun 2014
Google Chrome fails in Fedora 20 with AMD Catalyst, runs fine with open Radeon driver (Jun 25, 2014)
Turns out I have a lot of stuff in Ubuntu One (Jun 25, 2014)
Mon, 23 Jun 2014
Using Perl modules to parse an XML feed (Jun 23, 2014)
Wed, 18 Jun 2014
The Programming Project, Part 2: More from 'Learning Perl' (Jun 18, 2014)
Fri, 13 Jun 2014
Google Chrome ran on my Fedora 20 system a couple of days ago but does no longer (Jun 13, 2014)
Wed, 11 Jun 2014
Google Chrome browser is working again on my Fedora 20 system (Jun 11, 2014)
Getting Adobe Digital Editions working under Wine in Linux (specifically Fedora 20) (Jun 11, 2014)
Sun, 08 Jun 2014
The Programming Project, Part 1: What's this all about (Jun 08, 2014)
Wed, 04 Jun 2014
Matthew Miller is the new Fedora Project Leader (Jun 04, 2014)
Fri, 30 May 2014
Where my head is on my next Linux distribution (May 30, 2014)
Thu, 29 May 2014
AMD Catalyst 14.6 for Linux is out (May 29, 2014)
Tue, 27 May 2014
Fedora is remarkably stable despite a constant flow of new (May 27, 2014)
Fri, 23 May 2014
The latest Google Chrome browser is segfaulting in Fedora 20 (May 23, 2014)
The easiest, best way to get a packaged AMD Catalyst driver in Fedora 20 (May 23, 2014)
Thu, 22 May 2014
Thanks, Michael Larabel of Phoronix for turning my AMD Catalyst in Fedora rant into an article (May 22, 2014)
Thu, 08 May 2014
I think a Mesa update broke my AMD Catalyst driver's 3D hardware acceleration -- here's how I fixed it (May 08, 2014)
Fri, 02 May 2014
Kernel and other packages I have in Fedora that allow me to install and run AMD's upstream Catalyst driver (May 02, 2014)
Thu, 01 May 2014
Firefox 29, complete with new look, is in Fedora (May 01, 2014)
Sun, 13 Apr 2014
Hiding directories in Apache with .htaccess (Apr 13, 2014)
Thu, 10 Apr 2014
After a year or so, back to Thunderbird (Apr 10, 2014)
Wed, 09 Apr 2014
Fedora patches the OpenSSL 'Heartbleed' bug (Apr 09, 2014)
Tue, 08 Apr 2014
You might want to pay for an e-mail service like the OpenBSD-running Neomailbox (Apr 08, 2014)
Wed, 02 Apr 2014
Hashover: A free-software alternative to Disqus and other hosted-commenting services (Apr 02, 2014)
Sun, 30 Mar 2014
Printing with the HP LaserJet 1020 works again with Fedora 20, and I don't know why (Mar 30, 2014)
Fri, 28 Mar 2014
Coming to Fedora's Xfce spin: the Whisker Menu and xfdashboard (Mar 28, 2014)
Xfce Theme Manager is kind of a train wreck, but I ended up with borders on the sides of my windows (and that ain't bad) (Mar 28, 2014)
Rhythmbox remains under active development, gets updated to version 3.0.2 (Mar 28, 2014)
Wed, 26 Mar 2014
Google Starbucks WiFi is strong in Granada Hills (Mar 26, 2014)
Sat, 15 Mar 2014
Interesting report: Phoronix's Michael Larabel on running Xubuntu with new Asus hardware after giving up on OS X (Mar 15, 2014)
OpenBSD replacing Apache web server with nginx (Mar 15, 2014)
Thu, 13 Mar 2014
Actor/geek icon Wil Wheaton less than happy with Ubuntu (Mar 13, 2014)
Wed, 12 Mar 2014
After four days, I go back to AMD Catalyst in Fedora 20 (Mar 12, 2014)
70 Decibels' Generational on blogging -- a detailed, geeky discussion on platforms of all kinds (Mar 12, 2014)
Mon, 10 Mar 2014
Gvim is vim-X11 in Fedora (Mar 10, 2014)
Coffee Bean in crumbling Tarzana shopping center says its WiFi is out, but it's NOT OUT AT ALL (Mar 10, 2014)
Sat, 08 Mar 2014
After I couldn't log in AGAIN, I pulled AMD Catalyst from Fedora 20 (Mar 08, 2014)
Fri, 07 Mar 2014
I created a static Ode archive page (Mar 07, 2014)
Script to sync and/or reindex your Indexette-enabled Ode site in Unix/Linux systems (Mar 07, 2014)
Thu, 06 Mar 2014
Fedora and OpenSUSE update GnuTLS today, Debian and Ubuntu a couple days ago (Mar 06, 2014)
I get more traffic from LXer.com than anywhere else (Mar 06, 2014)
Does the programming language matter? (Mar 06, 2014)
Buffer's Awesome plan makes it way more usable, but I'm not in a position to part with $102 right now (Mar 06, 2014)
Wed, 05 Mar 2014
Helpful post: How to manage/sync your iOS 7 device under Linux (natively) by Manuel Escudero (Mar 05, 2014)
Why blogging shouldn't be replaced by Facebook -- Dave Winer's view (Mar 05, 2014)
Sun, 02 Mar 2014
New OpenShift feature I'm excited about: scp (Mar 02, 2014)
The Fall of Perl, the Web's Most Promising Language, by Conor Myhrvold (Mar 02, 2014)
Wed, 26 Feb 2014
If this appears on Twitter an hour after my last Tweet, it works. (Feb 26, 2014)
Using Buffer and If This Then That to automate RSS into Twitter at regular intervals (Feb 26, 2014)
Tue, 25 Feb 2014
Firefox vs. Chrome on Windows and Linux (Feb 25, 2014)
In Movable Type 4, comment spam was overwhelming (Feb 25, 2014)
Sun, 23 Feb 2014
At SCALE 12x, I just spoke with Karsten Wade about Red Hat's new relationship with CentOS (Feb 23, 2014)
I'm at SCALE 12x on Saturday, and here's what I did so far today (Feb 23, 2014)
Fri, 21 Feb 2014
Dive into the world of Linux and free software at SCALE 12x this weekend in Los Angeles (Feb 21, 2014)
Back to AMD Catalyst in Fedora 20 for the suspend/resume (Feb 21, 2014)
I will be at Scale 12x this weekend (Feb 21, 2014)
Tue, 18 Feb 2014
An Indexette pre-tagging test for synchronized local-server directories (Feb 18, 2014)
It's been nearly three years since I started using Ode (Feb 18, 2014)
Fri, 14 Feb 2014
Linux init-system shocker: Mark Shuttleworth announces that Ubuntu will follow Debian and adopt systemd (Feb 14, 2014)
I installed SpeedFan in Windows 8 (Feb 14, 2014)
Wed, 12 Feb 2014
'How to Sharpen Pencils': the documentary (Feb 12, 2014)
How I fixed my Fedora 20 system when it stalled before the display manager appeared (Feb 12, 2014)
Tue, 11 Feb 2014
The 3.13.2 Linux kernel is being built right now for Fedora 20 (Feb 11, 2014)
Mon, 10 Feb 2014
My Fedora 20 system dies for a day, but I find the culprit (Feb 10, 2014)
Wed, 05 Feb 2014
Fedora 20 is looking kind of mature these days (Feb 05, 2014)
In the Fedora installer, you can choose your desired desktop (and Debian does this, too) (Feb 05, 2014)
Mon, 03 Feb 2014
Another Buddy Burden meditation on programming: Perl gets shit done (Feb 03, 2014)
Fri, 31 Jan 2014
A great meditation -- in eight parts -- on programming from Perl coder Buddy Burden (Jan 31, 2014)
Skype update for Linux fixes nothing (Jan 31, 2014)
BoingBoing: Why Dungeons & Dragons still matters (Jan 31, 2014)
Facebook tries to out-Medium its competition with new Paper interface (Jan 31, 2014)
Just because you're a former Apple manager doesn't mean your iMac's getting fixed (Jan 31, 2014)
Thu, 30 Jan 2014
Yes? (Jan 30, 2014)
Come toward the light (Jan 30, 2014)
Wed, 29 Jan 2014
There a 'fediverse' out there waiting for you (Jan 29, 2014)
There's no AMD Catalyst for Fedora 20 in RPM Fusion, but the Fedora 19 packages just keep on getting updated (Jan 29, 2014)
Mon, 27 Jan 2014
Configuring Fedora 20 to print to HP LaserJet 1020 is a pain in the ass (and so far not doable) (Jan 27, 2014)
Wed, 22 Jan 2014
Fedora -- or any Linux -- with working suspend/resume is awesome (Jan 22, 2014)
Mon, 20 Jan 2014
I can be bought cheap, and Fedora has me locked in (Jan 20, 2014)
Sat, 18 Jan 2014
I solve the suspend/resume problem in Fedora 20 (Jan 18, 2014)
Is your Fedora update failing due to 'scriptlet' issue? Here's the quick, easy fix (Jan 18, 2014)
Fri, 17 Jan 2014
Windows 8.1 upgrade fails, kills the bootloader, but I eventually find the fix (Jan 17, 2014)
Buy Debian merchandise from Debian France (and it helps if you can read French) (Jan 17, 2014)
Phoronix is one of my essential resources (Jan 17, 2014)
Mon, 13 Jan 2014
I succeed installing AMD Catalyst in Fedora 20, and that means I don't have to dump the distro (Jan 13, 2014)
Sun, 12 Jan 2014
Could the kernel-devel package be the thing preventing AMD's Catalyst from installing in Fedora 20? (Jan 12, 2014)
Sat, 04 Jan 2014
From ReadWrite: Online Privacy: We Are The Authors Of Our Own Demise (Jan 04, 2014)
Tue, 31 Dec 2013
When life hands you lemons, go back to Debian (Dec 31, 2013)
Windows 8: Not my cup of pain (Dec 31, 2013)
Fri, 27 Dec 2013
Fix for PulseAudio trouble with Skype in Fedora 20 and other Linux distributions past and present (Dec 27, 2013)
Thu, 26 Dec 2013
Read the excellent year-end proprietary AMD Catalyst and free Radeon driver roundup from Phoronix and find out why I'm recommending against buying AMD hardware for Linux (Dec 26, 2013)
Tue, 24 Dec 2013
Will there really be no AMD Catalyst driver packaged by RPM Fusion for Fedora 20? (Dec 24, 2013)
Twitter: A bad day for Fedora users (Dec 24, 2013)
Sat, 21 Dec 2013
Proposal: How about a way to bring Twitter into Ode? (Dec 21, 2013)
Once you start blogging by writing plain text files, you can't go back (Dec 21, 2013)
Fri, 20 Dec 2013
Twitter: The open web (Dec 20, 2013)
Thu, 19 Dec 2013
New Fedup is here -- proceed with your Fedora 20 upgrades (Dec 19, 2013)
Wed, 18 Dec 2013
Don't eat the yellow snow, or upgrade to Fedora 20 with fedup 0.7 (Dec 18, 2013)
Tue, 17 Dec 2013
Fedora 20 is here, and so are (or will be) new kernels for F19 and F20 (Dec 17, 2013)
Fedora 20 is almost here (Dec 17, 2013)
Tue, 10 Dec 2013
GNOME 3: Adjust 'hot corner' sensitivity with the Activities Configurator extension (Dec 10, 2013)
Thu, 05 Dec 2013
Code blocks in Markdown: just tab (Dec 05, 2013)
Social sharing buttons for Ode sites (Dec 05, 2013)
I updated the Creative Commons license for this site (Dec 05, 2013)
Mon, 02 Dec 2013
Disqus in Ode: 'comments' or '0 Comments' (Dec 02, 2013)
I'm looking at the Fedora Power Management Guide (Dec 02, 2013)
Fri, 29 Nov 2013
Korora 20 beta is out, and now there is an Xfce version of the Fedora-made-easy distro (Nov 29, 2013)
MLED -- Microlinux Enterprise Desktop -- builds on Slackware for a 'full-blown production desktop,' but it's not as easy a rolling an ISO (Nov 29, 2013)
Wed, 27 Nov 2013
Markdown comes to WordPress.com (Nov 27, 2013)
Mon, 25 Nov 2013
Why I'm using the closed Catalyst driver for Linux instead of the open Radeon driver (Nov 25, 2013)
Fri, 22 Nov 2013
Keeping a filesystem in sync across two or more servers and local machines, Part 1 (Nov 22, 2013)
Thu, 21 Nov 2013
Yes, you can still download the free, open-source Movable Type (Nov 21, 2013)
Sat, 16 Nov 2013
More blogs, better CSS at stevenrosenberg.net (Nov 16, 2013)
Ghost is very basic. VERY BASIC (Nov 16, 2013)
Thu, 14 Nov 2013
Noted contributer Aaron Toponce says goodbye to Ubuntu, even gives up UBUNTU license plate (Nov 14, 2013)
Fri, 08 Nov 2013
Google knows how to get you (Nov 08, 2013)
Fri, 01 Nov 2013
I like the Xfce Whisker Menu (Nov 01, 2013)
Thu, 31 Oct 2013
I installed the Whisker Menu for Xfce (Oct 31, 2013)
Wed, 30 Oct 2013
Ubuntu 13.10 review: It's better than billed (and not quite dead, despite rumors to the contrary) (Oct 30, 2013)
Sat, 26 Oct 2013
I'm sticking with Fedora (Oct 26, 2013)
Wed, 23 Oct 2013
Steam coming to Fedora via the RPM Fusion repository (Oct 23, 2013)
After six or so months with Fedora, I'm looking for something new (Oct 23, 2013)
Sun, 20 Oct 2013
I read 10 NYTimes articles today, and it'll cost me 99 cents for the first four weeks to read more, then $15 per month (Oct 20, 2013)
Sat, 19 Oct 2013
How to stop GNOME 3 in Fedora 19 from suspending the laptop when the lid is closed (Oct 19, 2013)
Thu, 17 Oct 2013
I like what GNOME 3 and Unity are doing, so I'm replicating those things in Xfce (Oct 17, 2013)
Wed, 16 Oct 2013
Fedora is remarkably trouble-free (Oct 16, 2013)
File under obvious: Turning off CPU fan makes computer run hot (Oct 16, 2013)
New link at AMD for latest Catalyst driver for Linux (Oct 16, 2013)
Handbrake for Fedora, it's a thing (Oct 16, 2013)
Wed, 09 Oct 2013
AMD releases Catalyst 13.11 beta driver for Linux (Oct 09, 2013)
Wed, 02 Oct 2013
AMD quietly releases Catalyst 13.10 beta for Linux (Oct 02, 2013)
Wed, 25 Sep 2013
I keep hearing about Docker (Sep 25, 2013)
Synchronizing a filesystem between a local drive and a server via ftp (or, as suggested, rsync or Unison) (Sep 25, 2013)
Tue, 24 Sep 2013
The Ghost blogging platform is here (Sep 24, 2013)
Sat, 21 Sep 2013
Blogging with files stored at Dropbox and Evernote -- it's a thing (Sep 21, 2013)
Thu, 19 Sep 2013
AMD releases Catalyst 13.9 video driver for Linux -- or does it? (Sep 19, 2013)
Sat, 14 Sep 2013
This Ode site is responsive (Sep 14, 2013)
Mon, 09 Sep 2013
I'm adding posts from my old FlatPress site to this Ode site (Sep 09, 2013)
Sat, 07 Sep 2013
New (to me) Ode site: Codex 99 Annex (Sep 07, 2013)
Mon, 02 Sep 2013
Always back up everything (Sep 02, 2013)
Sun, 01 Sep 2013
Proposal: Blog archive listings, either in Indexette or as a separate addin (Sep 01, 2013)
I love Pencil Revolution (Sep 01, 2013)
This blog's contents is now under a Creative Commons license (Sep 01, 2013)
Proposal: A caching addin for Ode (Sep 01, 2013)
Sat, 31 Aug 2013
Ode proposals/wishlist (Aug 31, 2013)
Proposal: Modify the main Ode HTML theme to be responsive (Aug 31, 2013)
Proposal: Write instructions for using Pagekite with an Ode installation (Aug 31, 2013)
Proposal: A native commenting system for Ode (Aug 31, 2013)
Proposal: Rewrite the EditEdit addin to be compatible with tablet and mobile devices (Aug 31, 2013)
Proposal: A Dropbox-based filesystem for Ode (Aug 31, 2013)
Fri, 30 Aug 2013
Sinclair ZX-81: I used to have one of these (Aug 30, 2013)
Thu, 29 Aug 2013
Watching for new AMD Linux video drivers -- open and closed (Aug 29, 2013)
Wed, 28 Aug 2013
Probably the best thing I've seen this year: Inspiration from Bill Watterson and Gavin Aung Than at zenpencils.com (Aug 28, 2013)
Sun, 25 Aug 2013
Me (Aug 25, 2013)
Must-read blog post: On Leaving Ubuntu by Benjamin Kerensa (Aug 25, 2013)
Canonical's next move after $32 million Ubuntu Edge crowfunding failure: Find a real phone, put your damn system on it AND JUST SHIP SOMETHING ALREADY (Aug 25, 2013)
Tue, 20 Aug 2013
Best coffee mug ever (Aug 20, 2013)
Mon, 19 Aug 2013
Pipelight: A new way to run Netflix in Linux (or at least in Ubuntu and Arch) (Aug 19, 2013)
Sun, 18 Aug 2013
AMD Catalyst 13.8 beta driver for Linux working again in my Fedora 19 system, but suspend/resume isn't (Aug 18, 2013)
Sat, 17 Aug 2013
Read this at Medium: She left Google (Aug 17, 2013)
Sun, 11 Aug 2013
Stop looking at fucking Twitter on your fucking phone (Aug 11, 2013)
Wed, 07 Aug 2013
The AMD Catalyst 13.8 beta video driver for Linux is out, and it breaks my system (Aug 07, 2013)
Fri, 02 Aug 2013
Hostgator and this site were down today -- the problem is in Provo (Aug 02, 2013)
No new stable AMD Catalyst driver for Linux, but there is a new 13.8 beta that runs with the 3.10 kernel (Aug 02, 2013)
Thu, 01 Aug 2013
Fedora 19 with the AMD Catalyst 13.6 driver: Optical drive disappears after suspend/resume (Aug 01, 2013)
Fri, 19 Jul 2013
The H is closing down: A sad day for open-source news, for @fabsh and for the rest of us (Jul 19, 2013)
Wed, 17 Jul 2013
I never used Google Reader, but now I'm using Liferea, and it's changing the way I read the web (Jul 17, 2013)
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
From the Guardian: We want privacy from the government, but we're open-freaking books on social media (Jul 16, 2013)
Readwrite.com: Why Citizen Developers Are the Future of Programming (Jul 16, 2013)
Mon, 15 Jul 2013
Igloo -- a 'hosted' intranet/social/collaboration platform (Jul 15, 2013)
Wed, 10 Jul 2013
Tent (Jul 10, 2013)
Marco Arment on why Internet lockdown is bad -- and happening all over again (and yes, that means Facebook is today's AOL) (Jul 10, 2013)
Fedora 19: The laptop seems to be running cooler (Jul 10, 2013)
Re-adding Fedora to your EFI boot menu if you (like me) have the audacity to disconnect your hard drive (Jul 10, 2013)
Tue, 09 Jul 2013
Fedora 18 to 19 upgrade with fedup: It's alive! (Jul 09, 2013)
Mon, 08 Jul 2013
The AMD Catalyst 13.6 proprietary video driver will support the latest AMD APUs -- and I really need it (Jul 08, 2013)
Sun, 30 Jun 2013
When Windows fails and Linux ... doesn't (Jun 30, 2013)
Wed, 12 Jun 2013
Solution: My host changed its ssh key, and Thunar and Nautilus won't let me connect with sftp (Jun 12, 2013)
Tue, 11 Jun 2013
Slight tweak in my Ode site's Logic theme for 'standard' links in post titles (Jun 11, 2013)
HostGator moved me to a new server, and everything's working (Jun 11, 2013)
Mon, 10 Jun 2013
Configuring Fedora 18 to print to HP LaserJet 1020 is a pain in the ass (Jun 10, 2013)
Tue, 04 Jun 2013
My kernel bug report in Fedora is getting results (Jun 04, 2013)
Sat, 01 Jun 2013
Mark Shuttleworth closes Ubuntu's Bug No. 1 now that Microsoft's hold on computing is declining (Jun 01, 2013)
Fri, 24 May 2013
Joe Pass: 'Summertime' (1992) (May 24, 2013)
Posting with Ode is so easy (May 24, 2013)
Thu, 23 May 2013
Joe Pass: 'All the Things You Are' (May 23, 2013)
Joe Pass: 'You Are the Sunshine of My Life,' live at Montreaux 1975 (May 23, 2013)
Sat, 18 May 2013
When Xubuntu and Debian fail, Fedora it is for HP Pavilion g6-2210us laptop (May 18, 2013)
Tue, 14 May 2013
Video: International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield sings David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' ... in space (May 14, 2013)
Fri, 10 May 2013
Two more static-site generators -- Yeoman and Middleman (May 10, 2013)
Thu, 09 May 2013
There used to be an article about Windows 8 here (May 09, 2013)
Tue, 23 Apr 2013
Linux on the new HP Pavilion g6-2210us -- It's looking like Xfce until video catches up (Apr 23, 2013)
Thu, 21 Feb 2013
Things OpenBSD doesn't have that keep me from adopting it as my primary desktop operating system (Feb 21, 2013)
Aftermarket replacement battery on the cheap for the Lenovo G555 (Feb 21, 2013)
This social-media post was generated out of my #ode blog http://bit.ly/Vx4RHw (Feb 21, 2013)
Wed, 13 Feb 2013
Get a VPS from InceptionHosting for 4 euros -- that's about $5.38 -- per month (Feb 13, 2013)
Tue, 12 Feb 2013
vModSynth looks totally awesome (Feb 12, 2013)
Ubuntu developer Mike Rooney, who was blogging with Octopress, moves to WordPress (Feb 12, 2013)
Sat, 09 Feb 2013
GNOME 3.4.2 in OpenBSD 5.2 -- I have it running (Feb 09, 2013)
Thu, 07 Feb 2013
It's easy to see what's happening in OpenBSD development (Feb 07, 2013)
It appears that some machines can run GNOME Shell in OpenBSD 5.2 (Feb 07, 2013)
ShyPosts directory test (Feb 07, 2013)
I just installed and (mostly successfully) tested Ode's ShyPosts addin (Feb 07, 2013)
Wed, 06 Feb 2013
This is a test of Ode's ShyPosts addin (Feb 06, 2013)
Sat, 02 Feb 2013
From callfortesting.org: GNOME 3 on OpenBSD 5.2 (Feb 02, 2013)
Dedoimedo is hilarious (Feb 02, 2013)
Fri, 01 Feb 2013
How I feel about GNOME 3.6 in the Fedora 18 final release (Feb 01, 2013)
Fri, 25 Jan 2013
Tweaking my Ode body type settings (Jan 25, 2013)
Sat, 19 Jan 2013
Fedora 18 with Xfce: My first impressions from live media (Jan 19, 2013)
Fri, 18 Jan 2013
Discovering jquery's load function (Jan 18, 2013)
Thu, 17 Jan 2013
Ode really *is* simple (Jan 17, 2013)
Wed, 16 Jan 2013
Is your screen blanking in Xfce despite your xscreensaver settings? I have the fix -- and this time it's for real (Jan 16, 2013)
Mon, 14 Jan 2013
Benjamin Mako Hill moves from PyBlosxom to WordPress (Jan 14, 2013)
Sat, 12 Jan 2013
I just added the Axe Menu GNOME Shell Extension (Jan 12, 2013)
Fri, 11 Jan 2013
Xfce vs. GNOME 3: Where I stand, today anyway (Jan 11, 2013)
Thu, 03 Jan 2013
My Hostgator e-mail setup: Roundcube webmail plus filtering in cPanel (Jan 03, 2013)
'Kindergarten is the best garden, the best kind of garden for me' (Jan 03, 2013)
Fri, 28 Dec 2012
What a difference a font makes (Dec 28, 2012)
Thu, 27 Dec 2012
New GNOME Shell features in 3.7 and 3.8, plus a couple of development notes (Dec 27, 2012)
Two new users of the Chronicle Blog Compiler (Dec 27, 2012)
Amazon s3-style storage without Amazon (Dec 27, 2012)
Linux X tip: ctrl-alt-backspace is now alt-PrtSc-k (Dec 27, 2012)
I'm teaching myself git (Dec 27, 2012)
Fri, 21 Dec 2012
Nikola, a static site/blog generator written in Python (Dec 21, 2012)
Sun, 16 Dec 2012
GNOME 3: Lured into the hot corner (Dec 16, 2012)
Thu, 06 Dec 2012
Feeling my way around GNOME 3.6 in the Fedora 18 Beta (Dec 06, 2012)
Fri, 30 Nov 2012
Steady improvements in Debian Wheezy -- and a smooth transition from Squeeze (Nov 30, 2012)
Tue, 27 Nov 2012
Set the Xfce Clock the way you want it (Nov 27, 2012)
Wed, 21 Nov 2012
Is touchpad sensitivity to blame for erratic behavior? (Nov 21, 2012)
Tue, 20 Nov 2012
Fedora 18 with GNOME 3 looks like a very nice release (Nov 20, 2012)
Mon, 19 Nov 2012
GNOME 3 update: 'Connect to Server' lives in GNOME 3.5/3.6, I rant about features being moved and removed, and I fix my GNOME 3.4 problem in Debian Wheezy (Nov 19, 2012)
Sat, 17 Nov 2012
Xfce in the Fedora 18 Alpha (Nov 17, 2012)
My new, old WordPress blog (Nov 17, 2012)
It looks like more Debian users are turning to Xfce (Nov 17, 2012)
Xubuntu 12.10 with Xfce 4.10 (Nov 17, 2012)
Could I be happy in Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity? (Nov 17, 2012)
Thu, 15 Nov 2012
An essential GNOME Shell extension -- Impatience (Nov 15, 2012)
Updated: Debian Wheezy GNOME 3 panels (and everything else) goes away: Here's how I fixed it (Nov 15, 2012)
Ubuntu 12.10 GNOME Remix: Looking at the live environment -- a work in progress (Nov 15, 2012)
Roundcube webmail gets new look (Nov 15, 2012)
Tue, 13 Nov 2012
On 13-year-old hardware, Debian Squeeze with Xfce performs better than Wary Puppy 5.3 (Nov 13, 2012)
Linux distributions I plan to test -- Crunchbang 11 (Testing) and Bodhi 2.1.0 -- and why (Nov 13, 2012)
Sun, 11 Nov 2012
Amazon Web Services free for one year (Nov 11, 2012)
Thu, 08 Nov 2012
The Marketplace radio program has a very nice Drupal web site (Nov 08, 2012)
Mon, 05 Nov 2012
Lots of Debian Wheezy updates today (Nov 05, 2012)
Sun, 04 Nov 2012
Link: Windows isn't ready for general use (Nov 04, 2012)
Mon, 29 Oct 2012
My new, old WordPress blog (Oct 29, 2012)
Sat, 27 Oct 2012
GNU MediaGoblin -- a free, open alternative to YouTube, Flickr where you can share media with whoever the hell you want to share it with (Oct 27, 2012)
Tue, 23 Oct 2012
I spent the day in Xfce (Oct 23, 2012)
Thu, 18 Oct 2012
The Staedtler Mars Lumograph 100 pencil (Oct 18, 2012)
I did a major OwnCloud update -- and it worked (Oct 18, 2012)
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
Iceweasel 10.0.09 ESR update for Debian Wheezy (Oct 16, 2012)
Mon, 15 Oct 2012
Pencils -- it's a thing (Oct 15, 2012)
Raspberry Pi single-board $35 computer's RAM doubles from 256 to 512 MB (Oct 15, 2012)
Fri, 12 Oct 2012
Developer not happy with direction of Ubuntu (Oct 12, 2012)
Sat, 06 Oct 2012
Google Chromebooks are looking better and better (Oct 06, 2012)
GNOME 3: Renaming Nautilus as Files is a good idea (Oct 06, 2012)
Fri, 05 Oct 2012
The minimalist web (Oct 05, 2012)
The PyBlosxom blogging software isn't dead, but it's not terribly alive either, plus why I use Ode as my flat-file blogging system of choice (Oct 05, 2012)
Mon, 01 Oct 2012
It may not be wrong, but I know it ain't right: I push my work e-mail through Gmail (Oct 01, 2012)
Sun, 30 Sep 2012
Better-late-than-never review: The ZaReason Limbo 6000A desktop computer running Linux Mint 12 (Sep 30, 2012)
Fri, 28 Sep 2012
The $99 supercomputer: Adapteva turns to Kickstarter for funding to get its massively parallel, fully open Raspberry Pi killer off the ground (Sep 28, 2012)
Lots of updates today in Debian Wheezy, plus when I think it will go Stable and why I stick with Debian as my distro of choice (Sep 28, 2012)
I still need Xfce's Gigolo, even in GNOME (Sep 28, 2012)
Sun, 23 Sep 2012
Repartitioning my Debian Wheezy system to make more room (Sep 23, 2012)
Sun, 16 Sep 2012
Advantage of Ubuntu's per-account /home encryption (Sep 16, 2012)
Sat, 15 Sep 2012
Evgeni Golov: Why I hope Twitter will die with the new API (Sep 15, 2012)
Andrea Veri: Managing your website with git (Sep 15, 2012)
Fri, 14 Sep 2012
The professional-level Lightworks video editor is coming to Linux (Sep 14, 2012)
Thu, 13 Sep 2012
Getting rid of doubled Applications icons in GNOME 3 in Debian Wheezy (Sep 13, 2012)
You know your Linux installation is getting a bit old and crusty when ... (Sep 13, 2012)
Thu, 30 Aug 2012
When I try to arrange bookmarks in the Chromium or Google Chrome browsers in Debian Wheezy, the app crashes (Aug 30, 2012)
In GNOME 3's Nautilus, where are my ftp bookmarks going? (Aug 30, 2012)
You know you're all in with GNOME 3 when you go to the 'hot corner' in other desktop environments (Aug 30, 2012)
Getting Wine apps in the menu bar in GNOME 3 / Shell in Debian Wheezy (Aug 30, 2012)
How I got rid of multiple icons in the Applications tab of GNOME 3 ... temporarily anyway (but full solution is forthcoming) (Aug 30, 2012)
Fri, 17 Aug 2012
The Firefox ESR -- aka Extended Support Release -- is what CentOS (and most likely RHEL) is using (Aug 17, 2012)
File under 'disturbing': Debian Wheezy doesn't ship with the Synaptic Package Manager (Aug 17, 2012)
Tue, 14 Aug 2012
I'm back in GNOME 3 in Debian Wheezy and liking it (Aug 14, 2012)
Sat, 11 Aug 2012
Chris Hall of FOSS Force: Occupy Diaspora (Aug 11, 2012)
Did KDE get as much grief in the 4.x transition as GNOME is getting for 3.x? (Aug 11, 2012)
Thu, 09 Aug 2012
Stella takes CentOS (which takes Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and adds many (many!!) of the desktop packages you're missing; along with RPMForge/RepoForgethe EPEL repository, you're pretty much all the way there (Aug 09, 2012)
Install the MATE desktop environment in Debian (Aug 09, 2012)
Wed, 01 Aug 2012
I'm trying Fotoxx as a Linux image editor (Aug 01, 2012)
Don't let anyone tell you differently -- Windows still sucks (Aug 01, 2012)
Tue, 31 Jul 2012
GNOME -- emotions are running high (Jul 31, 2012)
Sat, 28 Jul 2012
Read 'An opinion on the future of GNOME' at Fewt.com, including the comments (Jul 28, 2012)
Fri, 27 Jul 2012
I'm starting to use the GIMP more and more (Jul 27, 2012)
Thu, 26 Jul 2012
Ode project leader Rob Reed on Perl and Python (Jul 26, 2012)
Device sync returns to the gPodder podcast-catching client (Jul 26, 2012)
A new version of LibreOffice dropped into Debian Wheezy today (Jul 26, 2012)
Mon, 23 Jul 2012
I booted into my 1999-era Compaq laptop running Debian Squeeze (Jul 23, 2012)
Fri, 20 Jul 2012
I thought SpiderOak could replace Dropbox, but that didn't work for me (Jul 20, 2012)
Thu, 19 Jul 2012
My new Xfce 4.8 desktop in Debian Wheezy -- screenshot, tweaks and Xfce vs. GNOME 3 (Jul 19, 2012)
Tue, 17 Jul 2012
Giving Xfce a try in Debian Wheezy (Jul 17, 2012)
Sat, 14 Jul 2012
Watch all the videos from DebConf12 in Managua, Nicaragua (Jul 14, 2012)
Tue, 10 Jul 2012
I changed my Debian mirror -- no big deal (Jul 10, 2012)
Wed, 04 Jul 2012
Starting applications with the 'type to search' box in GNOME 3 (Jul 04, 2012)
Epiphany, aka 'Web,' is fast and light in GNOME 3 (Jul 04, 2012)
Sun, 01 Jul 2012
Could the 'leap second' have caused my CPU loading problem in Debian Wheezy? (Jul 01, 2012)
Debian Wheezy with GNOME 3: Day 3 -- Troublesome browser-related CPU loads, plus GNOME Classic (Jul 01, 2012)
Fri, 29 Jun 2012
I upgraded from Debian Squeeze to Wheezy today (Jun 29, 2012)
Thu, 21 Jun 2012
Reducing swappiness in Linux for better desktop performance (Jun 21, 2012)
Wed, 13 Jun 2012
Debian project leader Stefano Zacchiroli and the controversy over Debian Multimedia (Jun 13, 2012)
I just installed Iceweasel 13 in Debian Squeeze (Jun 13, 2012)
WordPress: What am I doing wrong? (Jun 13, 2012)
Mon, 11 Jun 2012
How do you feel about social-networking posts originating as blog-post titles? (Jun 11, 2012)
Allowing the use of multiple themes simultaneously would solve many #WordPress problems for me. (Jun 11, 2012)
Social networking -- the giving and the taking (Jun 11, 2012)
Sat, 09 Jun 2012
I will not be posting on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Diaspora or Identi.ca (Jun 09, 2012)
Thu, 07 Jun 2012
DSL Extreme: No plans -- or need -- to go IPv6 at this time; so what are web sites and ISPs going to do? (Jun 07, 2012)
Wed, 06 Jun 2012
The why and how of Red Hat/Fedora's solution for Linux and UEFI secure boot (Jun 06, 2012)
What Google's doing with Quickoffice, and what it could mean for Microsoft and Apple (Jun 06, 2012)
Debian releases a diversity statement (Jun 06, 2012)
Tue, 05 Jun 2012
I'm almost ready to turn dlvr.it back on (Jun 05, 2012)
I don't understand The Tweeted Times (Jun 05, 2012)
GNOME 3.4 is making its way to Debian Wheezy (Jun 05, 2012)
Sometimes LibreOffice Draw is overkill for PDF shuffling -- and PDF-Shuffler does it better and faster (Jun 05, 2012)
Mon, 04 Jun 2012
The site is back (Jun 04, 2012)
Thu, 24 May 2012
When X dies in Linux (May 24, 2012)
Tue, 22 May 2012
OwnCloud releases version 4 (May 22, 2012)
Blosxom in Github (May 22, 2012)
Why I turned off dlvr.it (May 22, 2012)
Fri, 18 May 2012
Despite GNOME 3, GNOME remains compelling (May 18, 2012)
I'm running Linux kernel 3.2.0-15 from Debian Backports (May 18, 2012)
Tue, 15 May 2012
I'm updating a CentOS 5 installation that hasn't been booted in three or four years (May 15, 2012)
Thu, 10 May 2012
How to get more (or fewer) than four virtual workspaces on Ubuntu's Unity desktop (May 10, 2012)
There's a new Icedove (aka Thunderbird) in the Debian Mozilla APT Archive (May 10, 2012)
Wed, 09 May 2012
Video-editing update: LiVES, KDEnlive and OpenShot (May 09, 2012)
Tue, 08 May 2012
Ubuntu 12.04 and Unity -- I'm ready (May 08, 2012)
Sat, 05 May 2012
Xubuntu 12.04 with Xfce 4.8 - one giant leap and a mighty attractive desktop (revised) (May 05, 2012)
Thu, 26 Apr 2012
I'm testing SpiderOak backup (Apr 26, 2012)
Fri, 20 Apr 2012
I had an Epiphany ... about the Epiphany Web browser (Apr 20, 2012)
Sat, 14 Apr 2012
This Debian Squeeze installation has lasted since late 2010 (Apr 14, 2012)
Fri, 13 Apr 2012
Things I recently -- and successfully -- fixed: shower valve, laptop screen, overheating car (Apr 13, 2012)
Firefox 11 has been crashy enough to get me using Google Chrome (Apr 13, 2012)
Thu, 12 Apr 2012
Crunchbang Linux -- So far it's 'like' at first sight (Apr 12, 2012)
Mon, 09 Apr 2012
GNOME 2, you get me: Multiple monitors easily done in Debian Squeeze (Apr 09, 2012)
Sun, 25 Mar 2012
Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity (in beta/daily build) NOT suited to Thinkpad R32 (Mar 25, 2012)
Sun, 18 Mar 2012
Debian Stable -- set it and forget it -- spoils me for fresh Linux Mint 12 on some very nice ZaReason hardware (Mar 18, 2012)
Thu, 15 Mar 2012
I'm thinking VPS (Mar 15, 2012)
Firefox/Iceweasel 11 a huge improvement? (Answer: No) (Mar 15, 2012)
Rob Reed's new Logic theme for Ode (Mar 15, 2012)
Wed, 14 Mar 2012
See every post in this blog on a single page (Mar 14, 2012)
Iceweasel 11.0 now in the Debian Mozilla Team's stable archive (Mar 14, 2012)
Debian Multimedia has repositories for Stable, Testing, Unstable, Experimental, Old Stable and Stable Backports (Mar 14, 2012)
Tue, 13 Mar 2012
I think I've got it now ... (Mar 13, 2012)
A confusing array of services delivering RSS updates to other services (Mar 13, 2012)
My Debian Squeeze box DOESN'T spring forward (Mar 13, 2012)
Sat, 10 Mar 2012
Huge OwnCloud breakthrough -- I figure out how to get a secure connection (Mar 10, 2012)
Wed, 07 Mar 2012
I love Markdown (Mar 07, 2012)
Hostgator is a solid shared-hosting performer -- and why you need a shared-hosting account of your very own (Mar 07, 2012)
Tue, 06 Mar 2012
How to use the shared SSL certificate on Hostgator even if you are using an .htaccess redirect (Mar 06, 2012)
Mon, 05 Mar 2012
DragonFly BSD 3.0.1 desktop test -- first steps (Mar 05, 2012)
Thu, 23 Feb 2012
Quick OwnCloud update (Feb 23, 2012)
Thu, 16 Feb 2012
I just installed ownCloud: It's like my own, wholly controlled version of Google Docs (without the spying) and Dropbox (without the cost) (Feb 16, 2012)
Sat, 11 Feb 2012
Why I'm going back to Icedove 3.0.11 in Debian Squeeze after months with version 5.0 from the Debian Mozilla team APT archive (Feb 11, 2012)
Mon, 06 Feb 2012
The lure of a social-networking audience vs. freedom of the open Web (Feb 06, 2012)
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
Iceweasel/Firefox 10.0 now in the Debian Mozilla APT Archive (Feb 01, 2012)
Tue, 31 Jan 2012
Laptop overheating, causing thermal shutdown during prolonged, CPU-intensive tasks (Jan 31, 2012)
Wed, 18 Jan 2012
Get more Unicode fonts on your Debian system (Jan 18, 2012)
Tue, 17 Jan 2012
This blog will go dark on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills restricting the open web (Jan 17, 2012)
Use alsamixer to turn off the annoying, loud beep (aka system bell) in Debian Squeeze when you shutdown or restart (Jan 17, 2012)
Sat, 14 Jan 2012
Raphael Hertzog's Debian Squeeze discs are well worth the money (Jan 14, 2012)
Sat, 07 Jan 2012
I'm using Debian Live-based Tails from a live USB stick to preserve privacy and anonymity (Jan 07, 2012)
Fri, 06 Jan 2012
Keep an eye on Debian CUT (Jan 06, 2012)
Wed, 04 Jan 2012
Somehow .org sounds too official (Jan 04, 2012)
I'm running the 2.6.39 Linux kernel from Debian Backports (Jan 04, 2012)
Wed, 28 Dec 2011
I replace sun-java6 with openjdk-6 in Debian Squeeze, everything still works (Dec 28, 2011)
Sat, 24 Dec 2011
Just another day in Debian (Dec 24, 2011)
Thu, 15 Dec 2011
The flashplugin-nonfree package won't update itself in Debian Squeeze -- here's how to do it (Dec 15, 2011)
PDF import for LibreOffice in Debian Backports is broken -- here's how to fix it (Dec 15, 2011)
Mon, 12 Dec 2011
CentOS remains way behind in tracking RHEL, Scientific Linux does better, but Debian and Ubuntu deserve consideration, too (Dec 12, 2011)
Fri, 25 Nov 2011
Updating Debian Squeeze on a 1999 Compaq Armada 7770dmt (Nov 25, 2011)
Tue, 22 Nov 2011
A salute to Vim from ArsTechnica's Ryan Paul (Nov 22, 2011)
Steve Jobs would cry to get his way (Nov 22, 2011)
A sentence for all (holiday) seasons (Nov 22, 2011)
Unity and GNOME Shell are more alike than different (Nov 22, 2011)
Mon, 21 Nov 2011
Navigating in GNOME 3/Shell in Fedora 16 (Nov 21, 2011)
Sun, 20 Nov 2011
It's becoming their Internet -- it should be our Internet (Nov 20, 2011)
Fri, 18 Nov 2011
Using the GNOME file manager's FTP capabilities to manage my Ode site (Nov 18, 2011)
I got rid of HootSuite, Ping.FM, RSS Graffiti, the Twitter-Facebook-Identi.ca bridges in favor of a simpler solution with dlvr.it (Nov 18, 2011)
Ubuntu 11.10 live from USB -- first impressions (Nov 18, 2011)
Wed, 16 Nov 2011
First impressions of the Fedora 16 GNOME 3 Live CD (Nov 16, 2011)
This is not the Fedora Project web site (Nov 16, 2011)
Tue, 15 Nov 2011
Moving from one blogging platform to another can be painful (Nov 15, 2011)
Sun, 13 Nov 2011
A great blog post on how to program from one of the giants in the Perl community (Nov 13, 2011)
Fri, 11 Nov 2011
Here's my latest video edited in OpenShot -- I refine my technique in organizing tracks (Nov 11, 2011)
Tue, 08 Nov 2011
Tapping deeper into the OpenShot video editor (Nov 08, 2011)
Wed, 02 Nov 2011
Could I believe in Evolution? I go deeper into GNOME (Nov 02, 2011)
Fri, 28 Oct 2011
Thinking out of the server box: HP ProLiant MicroServer (Oct 28, 2011)
Wed, 26 Oct 2011
I'm pushing Debian Squeeze and GNOME 2 as hard as I can (Oct 26, 2011)
Mon, 24 Oct 2011
So many social networks, so little (fill in the blank) (Oct 24, 2011)
I add the Widgets Plus Google+ widget to this site (Oct 24, 2011)
Moving out of Flatpress and into Ode (Oct 24, 2011)
Fri, 21 Oct 2011
ZDNet's Linux vs. Windows server smackdown (Oct 21, 2011)
Canonical upping desktop support for its next Ubuntu LTS to 5 years (Oct 21, 2011)
Tue, 18 Oct 2011
Get a Google+ widget for your website (Oct 18, 2011)
Back to OpenShot for video editing in Debian GNU/Linux (Oct 18, 2011)
Fri, 30 Sep 2011
Debian Stable -- it's been good, but will it remain so? (Sep 30, 2011)
Tue, 27 Sep 2011
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion supports some older HP scanners, but not the one I'm trying to get working; Apple rant follows (Sep 27, 2011)
Thu, 22 Sep 2011
Pure blogging (Sep 22, 2011)
Wed, 21 Sep 2011
Back to Ode (Sep 21, 2011)
From setback to on track (Sep 21, 2011)
Fri, 09 Sep 2011
LibreOffice Draw -- my new favorite application (Sep 09, 2011)
Sat, 03 Sep 2011
I feel like playing again (Sep 03, 2011)
What's important (Sep 03, 2011)
Fri, 02 Sep 2011
I will not be testing, trying, or otherwise running Ubuntu 11.10 (Sep 02, 2011)
Thu, 01 Sep 2011
Debian on an old laptop - advice from Make Tech Easier (Sep 01, 2011)
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
A closer look at Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric with Jono Bacon (Aug 26, 2011)
Debian GNU/Linux guide for your system (Aug 26, 2011)
Tue, 23 Aug 2011
Want a server / desktop / laptop / studio machine / firewall / NAS / quiet system running Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD? eRacks can help you (Aug 23, 2011)
Mon, 22 Aug 2011
Newer X for Debian Squeeze now in Backports (Aug 22, 2011)
Sat, 20 Aug 2011
Windows for Linux Users, Part 2 (Aug 20, 2011)
Thu, 18 Aug 2011
Icedove 5.0 available for Debian Squeeze (Aug 18, 2011)
Mon, 15 Aug 2011
UTF encoding test -- Encode in UTF-8 without BOM (Aug 15, 2011)
UTF encoding test -- Geany in Windows (Aug 15, 2011)
UTF encoding test -- Encode in UTF-8 (Aug 15, 2011)
Sat, 13 Aug 2011
Windows for Linux users, Part 1 (Aug 13, 2011)
Tue, 09 Aug 2011
Debian looking at a June 2012 freeze for Debian Wheezy (Aug 09, 2011)
Sun, 07 Aug 2011
Debian lets me do what I need to do (Aug 07, 2011)
Fri, 05 Aug 2011
My Ode site at 1.0 (Aug 05, 2011)
Mon, 01 Aug 2011
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 installs begrudgingly on my Debian Squeeze-running laptop (Aug 01, 2011)
Thu, 28 Jul 2011
Text editor and FTP client for Android? (Jul 28, 2011)
Tue, 26 Jul 2011
Eyes (Jul 26, 2011)
Simplicity or minimalism? What's the difference? (Jul 26, 2011)
Mon, 25 Jul 2011
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS -- I like it better now than I did then (Jul 25, 2011)
BoingBoing drops Movable Type for WordPress (Jul 25, 2011)
Sun, 24 Jul 2011
Mozilla still (quietly) updating Firefox 3.6.x series (Jul 24, 2011)
Fri, 22 Jul 2011
I'm far enough behind in my Distrowatch Weekly reading that I only heard (I listen to the podcast version when I can) a couple days ago that I got a link (Jul 22, 2011)
Thu, 21 Jul 2011
Windows Update doesn't like my Linux-Windows dual-boot system (Jul 21, 2011)
Virgin Mobile -- pricing schizophrenia for prepaid carrier (Jul 21, 2011)
Sometimes a leak stops on its own (Jul 21, 2011)
Wed, 20 Jul 2011
Add_post test (Jul 20, 2011)
This is an Indexette test (Jul 20, 2011)
New main blog image (for today anyway) (Jul 20, 2011)
I add Indexette and EditEdit to my Ode blog (Jul 20, 2011)
Mon, 18 Jul 2011
Yes, I use e-mail client software (Jul 18, 2011)
Google+ -- shiny and new (Jul 18, 2011)
Wed, 06 Jul 2011
Debian Mozilla team creates a Release archive for Iceweasel (Jul 06, 2011)
Wed, 29 Jun 2011
Packages I’ve added to LibreOffice in Debian Squeeze (Jun 29, 2011)
Mon, 27 Jun 2011
Want to get involved in Debian? Raphael Hertzog needs your help (Jun 27, 2011)
Official Debian announcement on the move from OpenOffice to LibreOffice (Jun 27, 2011)
Sun, 26 Jun 2011
I hate to say it, but one of the first things you need to do in Debian is remove Gnash (Jun 26, 2011)
Debian Squeeze updated to 6.0.2 -- and my nostalgic trip back in free-software time (Jun 26, 2011)
Fri, 24 Jun 2011
Installing LibreOffice in Debian Squeeze from Backports without a hitch (Jun 24, 2011)
Wed, 22 Jun 2011
If you’re running Iceweasel 4.0.1 from mozilla.debian.net, change your sources to Iceweasel 5.0 (Jun 22, 2011)
Tue, 21 Jun 2011
LibreOffice is now in Debian Squeeze Backports (Jun 21, 2011)
Sat, 11 Jun 2011
What I need to work with Windows (Jun 11, 2011)
Moving my Ode blog (Jun 11, 2011)
Fri, 10 Jun 2011
Life, the Universe and Debian is back (Jun 10, 2011)
Tue, 24 May 2011
Mozilla.debian.net is back (May 24, 2011)
Mon, 23 May 2011
Why mozilla.debian.net is down (May 23, 2011)
Sat, 07 May 2011
The 2.6.38 Linux kernel comes to Debian squeeze-backports (May 07, 2011)
Wed, 04 May 2011
My new blog - powered by Ode (May 04, 2011)
Thu, 28 Apr 2011
I install Iceweasel/Firefox 4 in Debian Squeeze (Apr 28, 2011)
The search box in FlatPress only searches blog titles, not full text (Apr 28, 2011)
Wed, 20 Apr 2011
FlatPress revs to 0.1010.1 to fix login/authentication exploit (Apr 20, 2011)
Thu, 14 Apr 2011
Debian on a 1995 Sparcstation 20 in 2011 - Part 1: Prelude (Apr 14, 2011)
Thu, 07 Apr 2011
No, a 16-year-old Sun Sparcstation doesn’t work like a new x86 box (Apr 07, 2011)
Fri, 01 Apr 2011
Blogsum (not Bloxsom) for blogging in OpenBSD (Apr 01, 2011)
OpenBSD on 32-bit SPARC in 2011 (Apr 01, 2011)
Geeklog (Apr 01, 2011)
Mon, 28 Mar 2011
Debian Squeeze review from LinuxTweaking blog (Mar 28, 2011)
The problem with Excito’s Bubba 3 server? It’s nearly $400. So where do I go from here? (Mar 28, 2011)
Sat, 26 Mar 2011
Server over desktop (Mar 26, 2011)
Fri, 25 Mar 2011
I’m not jumping on Firefox 4 or GNOME 3 just yet (Mar 25, 2011)
How about a Ubuntu LTS Backports repository? (Mar 25, 2011)
Thu, 24 Mar 2011
Iceweasel update today in Debian (Mar 24, 2011)
Wed, 23 Mar 2011
How to get a newer version of Iceweasel (aka Firefox) on your Debian box (Mar 23, 2011)
Sat, 19 Mar 2011
A lot of updates in Debian Squeeze, including kernel and xorg (Mar 19, 2011)
Mon, 14 Mar 2011
Use Ubuntu’s usb-creator in Debian (Mar 14, 2011)
Fri, 11 Mar 2011
How do I have my 3 GB drive partitioned in Debian? (Mar 11, 2011)
Thu, 10 Mar 2011
grub-pc vs. grub-legacy in Debian Squeeze (Mar 10, 2011)
Puppy Linux — could it replace Debian on my oldest hardware? (Mar 10, 2011)
Puppy in 2011 on a laptop in 1999 — I’m sticking with Debian (Mar 10, 2011)
Debian Squeeze updates today: Iceweasel, Icedove, Chromium (Mar 10, 2011)
Mon, 07 Mar 2011
PPLOG - a flat-file, Puppy-friendly blogging system written in Perl (Mar 07, 2011)
Bradley Kuhn: ‘Back Home, with Debian’ (Mar 07, 2011)
Fri, 04 Mar 2011
Liquorix fatigue in Debian (Mar 04, 2011)
Chronicle: A Perl-based blogging system that creates static files (Mar 04, 2011)
More blogging systems - with Debian as a guide (Mar 04, 2011)
FlatPress tip: Enable the PostViews plugin and get a visitor-per-post count (Mar 04, 2011)
Wed, 02 Mar 2011
FlatPress and other flat-file blogging systems (Mar 02, 2011)
Thu, 24 Feb 2011
Check out my devio.us site (Feb 24, 2011)
Wed, 23 Feb 2011
I did a quick install of WordPress, then killed it — I’m looking for a flexible multiple-blog system (Feb 23, 2011)
The Epson Perfection V330 scanner and Debian (or any other kind of Linux, for that matter) (Feb 23, 2011)
Is Ubuntu playing with fire? (Feb 23, 2011)
Debian Squeeze and the Liquorix kernels — I update with Aptitude (Feb 23, 2011)
Thu, 17 Feb 2011
A successful (mostly) upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze (Feb 17, 2011)
Sat, 12 Feb 2011
LibreOffice is coming to Debian Squeeze Backports (Feb 12, 2011)
All quiet on the Debian Squeeze front (Feb 12, 2011)
Tue, 08 Feb 2011
What happened to Debian Live images for PowerPC? (Feb 08, 2011)
Suspend/resume in Debian Squeeze with the stock 2.6.32 and 2.6.37 Liquorix kernels on the Lenovo G555 (Feb 08, 2011)
Mon, 07 Feb 2011
Firefox in Debian? It could happen (Feb 07, 2011)
‘Why Debian Matters More Than Ever,’ by Joe Brockmeier (Feb 07, 2011)
You do follow Debian on Identi.ca, don’t you? (Feb 07, 2011)
Sun, 06 Feb 2011
Debian Squeeze is now Stable (Feb 06, 2011)
Sat, 05 Feb 2011
You can drop a photo into a FlatPress entry from the menu (Feb 05, 2011)
FlatPress themes (Feb 05, 2011)
Fri, 04 Feb 2011
Two days till Debian Squeeze goes Stable (Feb 04, 2011)
I haven’t started working on the design for I, Debian, but I will (Feb 04, 2011)
Thu, 03 Feb 2011
A Debian blog created with FlatPress (Feb 03, 2011)
This blog is set to Universal Time (Feb 03, 2011)
FlatPress facts (Feb 03, 2011)
Thu, 31 Jan 2008
A Debian victory for the $15 Laptop (Jan 31, 2008)
Thu, 03 Jan 2008
New Ted Greene tribute CD (Jan 03, 2008)
I continue to think Jake Shimabukuro is one of the best instrumentalists out there (Jan 03, 2008)
This page lost its counter when I updated the template (Jan 03, 2008)
Cool Blogger trick: "Post Options" (Jan 03, 2008)
Wed, 14 Nov 2007
I conquer the fan (Nov 14, 2007)
Mon, 12 Nov 2007
The modprobe squad (Nov 12, 2007)
Blogger ... not washed up yet (Nov 12, 2007)
The CTRL freak -- in two places at once (Nov 12, 2007)
Fri, 26 Oct 2007
The Ted Greene page is really coming along (Oct 26, 2007)
Song I heard today that I want to play (Oct 26, 2007)
It's been a long 10 months (Oct 26, 2007)