I did find it weird that I kept running out of disk space recently. That hasn’t happened in years, and most of my big files go on another HD. On top of that box has been way more sluggish even taking into account the fact that it’s ~4 years old and I always have 5-6 [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "RescueTime’s 22 Gigabyte notifier.debuglog Log File", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/11/rescuetimes-22-gigabyte-notifierdebuglog-log-file/" });
I’ve recently taken a fancy to Mephisto, a blogging-platform written in Rails. I have nothing against Wordpress, but being in Ruby and using Liquid for themes, Mephisto is far easier (and more fun) to tweak and configure, especially when I want to migrate my sites away from the “blog look” and make them more dynamic. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mephisto for the Masses - Installation howto", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/10/mephisto-for-the-masses-installation-howto/" });
Just sharing a script I wrote to quickly deploy Wordpress (and eventually a few other webapps) sites, which somebody might find useful. This uses Linode’s API* to add the domain name to the DNS server along with some subdomains. If you’re using another server, (Slicehost, your own, etc), you can alter the dns class to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Script to Quickly Setup WebApp Environment and Domain", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/10/script-to-quickly-setup-webapp-environment-and-domain/" });
These are not in any specific order. Also, some might be available on other operating systems.
Tomboy
This is the best note taking app I’ve ever used. It sits in your taskbar, doesn’t annoy you and doesn’t hog your cpu cycles or memory. When you wanna jot down something, hit a global shortcut, type away, and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Top 5 Linux Apps That’ll Boost Your Productivity", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/10/top-5-linux-apps-thatll-boost-your-productivity/" });
If you are experiencing segmentation faults with vim and rails.vim, it may be due to this bug, which appeared after 1.7.127, but has been resolved in 1.7.147 (patch log).
To check if your installation has this bug, type the following (cred goes to Ralph) in vim: :r ~fo<tab> (’fo’ being the start of a username present [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Has vim/rails.vim been crashing lately? Here’s why.", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/08/has-vimrailsvim-been-crashing-lately-heres-why/" });
This falls under “Why Didn’t I Think of This Before?”
Not being able to remain focused and get things done while working on a computer is common. There’s a countless number of things to do even offline. You can, and probably do:
Organize folders/desktop/etc
Finally get around to actually opening up an ebook you’ve downloaded
Customize your desktop (and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Simple and Effective Productivity Tip When Working on the Computer", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/07/simple-and-effective-productivity-tip-when-working-on-the-computer/" });
Hardware acceleration is not available in fullscreen mode for Linux yet, at least not with Adobe’s Flash 9.x plugin. This isn’t much of a problem with small videos, but it results in choppy, sluggish playback in fullscreen mode. Fortunately, there’s a simple way around this while we wait for Adobe to address the issue.
Workaround
If [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to Speed Up Fullscreen Flash Playback in Linux", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/07/how-to-speed-up-fullscreen-flash-playback-in-linux/" });
CDemu is basically a Daemon Tools alternative for Linux. It is a kernel module that lets you mount disk images to a virtual disk drive. It is capable of mounting TOC/CUE/BIN, NRG (Nero), CDI (DiskJuggler), CCD (CloneCD), MDS/MDF (Alcohol 120%), B6T (BlindWrite 6) and TOC images, and probably whatever else libMirage can handle.
Installation isn’t an [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mounting CUE/BIN/NRG/CCD (& other) Images on Linux Using CDemu", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/07/mounting-cuebinnrgccd-other-images-on-linux-using-cdemu/" });
Sunday, November 16, 2008
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