(draft) I’ve been using Firefox since the first public beta, and the one thing always on my wish list was fixing the sluggishness and unbelievable memory consumption (2 GB of RAM?) that results from keeping Firefox open for too long. This is still on my wish list today (almost 2010), and I know it’s unlikely to [...]
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of the spam comments on my blogs contain links concealed behind smilies. This helps you place any URL on a forum or a blog, without raising any red flags, as would happen if you blatantly add links to your posts or signature. It’s not obvious that this paragraph is just [...]
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
When you try to login with bad credentials, Gmail gives you a captcha to fill in before your next login attempt. Not only does this captcha appear randomly (keep putting in the wrong username and it will sometimes appear, sometimes not) (update: now it appears to be more consistent), but it’s also optional*. Just put [...]
Monday, April 13, 2009
Whiteboards are as useful as they are overpriced. I built one using tileboard (the thing they use in bathrooms), and I highly recommend making/buying one. It took me awhile to find tileboard in my area. In case anyone has the same problem, here are 4 alternatives I considered: They are not in any specific order. Glass [...]
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
You could run ImgBurn in Wine, or probably burn the games in VirtualBox running Windows, but that’s no solution… you’re reading this because you want to burn Xbox 360 games on Linux using native tools. It’s surprisingly easy! The games are usually an ISO file, along with a little DVD (.dvd) file that tells the burner [...]
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Many sites won’t let you use one email address to register multiple accounts. Sometimes you have legitimate reasons to, and other times you just wanna spam build backlinks. Either or, here’s how you can get around this… Gmail accepts email that has a ‘+’ appended to the username of your email address. Text can be anything [...]
Thursday, September 18, 2008
I was staring at the 30+ RapidShare tabs I have open, annoyed that I had to keep waiting for the countdown timer before starting each download. The problem was that I kept forgetting about the countdown and the downloads altogether (30 second timer + Geek-ADD… impossible). It literally took me 10+ hours to get one [...]
Sunday, August 10, 2008
I had used Trac 0.10.4 for awhile before upgrading to 0.11. First time around I had no problems, but on a new server, a fresh install of 0.11.1 was giving me this error when I visit certain pages: [Sun Aug 10 19:41:57 2008] [error] [client 69.204.200.139] PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend: Traceback (most recent call last):, referer: http://issues.biodegradablegeek.com/congen9 [Sun Aug [...]
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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 [...]
Thursday, November 26, 2009
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