Desktop background colors
Been screwing around with different desktop background colors tonight and needed to make a note or two.
This color chart is a great resource. All 216 “Netscape” colors, rendered more or less accurately (at least on my monitor).
Right now I’ve got my background set to #336699.
Not sure, but I think #336699 is pretty close to the [...]
WinSCP gui scp and sftp client for Windows
Another handy utility for those bulk file transfer jobs you need to make to/from UNIX boxes while on a Windows machine. This comes in especially handy on a Linux/UNIX-unfriendly VPN that forces you into the inefficient world of Microsoft computing.
WinSCP is a free, open source, full-featured scp/sftp client for Windows that’s based on the code [...]
El Reg headline: You all look bloody shifty to me (or, why is IE still our standard browser?)
Big title there, but given this:
as reported in the UK’s own The Register under the headline MS phishing filter blacklists everything: You all look bloody shifty to me, the question needs to be asked:
“After nearly a decade in which the Mozilla project’s free (as in beer) successor to Netscape Navigator has consistently lead the way [...]
External 4:3 monitor for a T61
I made a few changes to this when my original configuration gave me weird results. This kind of configuration is unfortunately an art, not a science.
This will be a quick, barebones, description of what I did to get this working.
Here’s the background:
Widescreen (6:9 aspect, 1440×900 rez) Thinkpad T61 laptop with the nvidia Quadro NVS 140M [...]
Outlook, Google, Evolution and One Old Palm
So here’s the deal. At work we run MS Exchange with Outlook on the desktop. Of course my personal e-mail is mostly on gmail, with some forwarders out to various owned domains (like lembobrothers.com). At both work and home I’ve also got CentOS Linux. Some time ago I set up my own personal Google Calendar [...]
IBM (Lenovo) 4965 Wireless for CentOS 5.3
First a confession. When I re-imaged my work laptop (a Lenovo Thinkpad T61) with CentOS 5.3 this morning, I completely drew a blank on how to get the built-in IBM 4965 a/b/g wireless card up and running. In the back of my mind I had some dark memories of compiling Atheros card drivers and ndiswrapper [...]
The world is not ready for a 64-bit desktop
I have been running a 64-bit desktop for some time now. It has been a valuable experiment.
Having said that, it’s now clear to me that there’s little benefit in continuing on with my current platform, and the down-side has begun to get tedious.
The improved performance of the 64-bit platform, while perceptible, just isn’t worth the [...]