gyrmination

I’ve worked using Arch Linux for a while without a battery monitor app, and finally decided to cure myself of this issue today. (I’ve dealt with this problem before.) I chose KThinkBat as my kicker applet of choice. As expected it didn’t work with my Compaq Presario 1720 out of the box. Same ACPI culprits [...]

None of the Open Source web photo gallery software out there works for me. Mostly they are just ugly and clunky, too many features, too difficult to customize. I wanted the replicate the feel of my hand-written China travel photo journals with more automation. I decided today was the day. Introducing µPhoto, a lightweight, templated [...]

I wanted to try caching PHP generated content using the Cache_Lite module from the PEAR repository. This micro-guide might save someone trying the same thing a few minutes of hunting for information. After ssh’ing into Site5 or other webserver: % pear -s -c ~/.pearrc -d doc_dir=~/pear/docs \ -d ext_dir=~/pear/ext -d php_dir=~/pear/lib \ -d data_dir=~/pear/data -d [...]

To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer. Click here for options… Stupidass IE XP SP2 Information Bar Warning It’s official, yet again – IE is the llama whose ass was whipped. When you try to view a locally saved webpage that contains [...]

Here’s a nautilus script that will allow you to enqueue/play all selected music files using Scripts from the right-click context menu. It should be placed in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/, chmod’ed 755. #!/usr/bin/perl # beep-playall.pl use strict; my @musicfiles; foreach (@ARGV) { push(@musicfiles, "\"$_\""); } @musicfiles = sort @musicfiles; exec "beep-media-player –enqueue –play @musicfiles"; To enqueue only, delete [...]