Yesterday I was having problems getting to Google. The rest of the internet worked fine, but I couldn’t connect to Google. It struck me as unlikely that Google would be down and check with Down for Everyone confirmed that it was just me. After much digging and a bit of thinking, I discovered google.com was […]
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Adobe Air in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04)
I just finished reinstalling Ubuntu 9.04 and was trying to install my air applications. Not terribly difficult… Download the installer from: http://get.adobe.com/air/ Install ia32-libs Install lib32nss-mdns (from http://tr.im/jCFs ) Install your apps I got stuck on the third step when I was going through things. I could install Adobe Air applications, but they had no […]
Arch Linux
I decided that I would like to try a Linux distro that was less “do it all for you.” After consulting with the people I consult with on things like that, I decided to try out Arch Linux. So far I am pretty impressed. It is definitely a DIY distribution, but they have documentation to […]
PHP Script for Deleting Orphaned Images
The title for this sucks. But that is because it isn’t easy to concisely describe (in a title fashion) what the script does. Imagine you have a lot of pictures from a photo shoot in both tif and jpg formats. You pick out the jpgs you want to keep and delete the rest. You still […]
Ubuntu + Google Calendar
This is finally working for me in Intrepid Ibex (8.10). I am able to sync my desktop calendar with the google calendar without noticing that Evolution is involved. My primary goal was to get calendar events to show up in the clock/calendar dropdown in the top right corner (by default). To do this is actually […]