Tag Archives: geek

Command of the Day

July 20, 2008 – 1:09 pm

One of my Fedora feeds had an announcement of the Rawhide version of a nifty little utility called rpl. Here’s its help screen:
Usage: rpl [options] old_string new_string target_file(s)
Options:
–version show program’s version number and exit
-h, –help show this [...]

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Lying with the Dogs

June 14, 2008 – 4:27 pm

I’ve griped and groused here on this old blog, and back in my days with the Twitter, about my need to consolidate all my RSS and Atom feeds under one roof, preferably a web-based one.
I tried Gregarius, as detailed here. And it was cool. I was hosting my own feeds. Problem was, I found [...]

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Today’s TWACness

June 7, 2008 – 4:49 pm

I’ve not posted the results of an online quiz in quite a while. I like this one very much.

Still waiting to take this one, which remains to this day the funniest thing I’ve ever encountered on the internets.
-k-

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No-Fly Streak Starts again Later

June 1, 2008 – 5:35 pm

After a long layoff from the unfriendly skies, I’m airborne again later this month. Destination: Boston.

This time for a geek extravaganza.
First and foremost, the Fourth Annual Red Hat Summit will be taking place. There is so much on the agenda for this that I’m having a hard time choosing which sessions [...]

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And the Badge is Updated

May 13, 2008 – 8:14 pm

The Fedora 9 Sulfur badge in the right sidebar has lost its “days until” verbiage, meaning that it’s released. I found a decently fast mirror, and am downloading the install DVD iso as I type this.
I also made another decision; some way, somehow, I want to be involved with the Fedora Project. [...]

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CREATEsouth Readin’ and Watchin’

April 21, 2008 – 8:26 pm

Thanks to all the Create South attendees for the Flickr streams, blog posts, and tweets about the conference. Though I had the desire, inclination, and wherewithal to attend, I lacked the open schedule time to complete the deed. I’ve read and watched everything about the event that I can find.
From what I’ve read [...]

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Standing up the tinman

April 17, 2008 – 10:19 pm

The MacMini, the tinman, took the place of our production iMac here at tbbs world HQ an hour or so ago. In tin’s first official act, he transmitted the AmEx payment.
A fitting shakedown for a new machine. Whisper quiet. The overpriced Apple monitor is great, with its firewire/USB hub all built in. I didn’t [...]

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I’m Gregarius!

March 9, 2008 – 1:36 pm

For a while now, I’ve been bemoaning the state of my feed readers.Not that they don’t work, but that I have a different reader on each computer I own. I have NetNewsWire on the Mac, Sage on one laptop, RSSOwl on another machine. Each with its own set of feeds.There’s a huge duplication of feeds [...]

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Sony e-reader on the Linux Laptop

December 3, 2007 – 8:42 pm

I managed to get the libprs500 software suite working on the laptop today.
This is going to be a good thing. There’s a Linux command line utility, prs500, which enables you to remove files from the SD card and/or the Sony internal memory. There are some jpegs and mp3s in the internal memory, these came with [...]

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Old Dogs, New Tweets

December 1, 2007 – 11:32 pm

tbbs-land now twittering. When you see the Twitter widget in the sidebar, call 911. I’ll be moribund.
-k-tbbs tags: Geek, twitter
Technorati Tags: twitter

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