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Vista won’t turn off the monitor

By Brian on June 29, 2009

I run Vista at home primarily for gaming purposes (and I like uTorrent). One of the problems I had with it lately was it not turning off the monitor when the power saving plan was supposed to. I would watch it try and turn off, but usually wouldn’t quite succeed. Eventually I determined the problem [...]

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OpenDNS kills Google

By Brian on May 13, 2009

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 not [...]

Posted in General | Tagged dns, opendns, tips | Leave a response

Adobe Air in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04)

By Brian on April 24, 2009

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 network access. Installing that library [...]

Posted in Adobe Air, Ubuntu | Tagged Adobe Air, tips, Ubuntu | 1 Response

Ubuntu + Google Calendar

By Brian on November 14, 2008

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 [...]

Posted in Ubuntu | Tagged google calendar, tips, Ubuntu | 9 Responses

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