if for some reason the graphical user interface of linux doesn’t show up, try booting in recovery mode and run:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
this will run a script that will allow you to setup your video card manually.
i have recreated and updated my gpg public key. you can download it from here.
web standards project press release:
The Acid3 Test is designed to test specifications for Web 2.0, and exposes potential flaws in implementations of the public ECMAScript 262 and W3C Document Object Model 2 standards. Collectively known as DOM Scripting, it is these technologies that enable advanced page interactivity and power many advanced web applications such as [...]
problem: when starting up azureus, it pauses for a few seconds and then disappears
cause: i don’t know the real cause but i have observed that it happens when azureus doesn’t make a clean exit. this happens sometimes when i double-click on a torrent and az suddenly disappears and the next time i start up the [...]
i noticed this today. i started receiving bounced mails from yahoo! groups. it appears that spammers are now trying to spam the yahoo! mailing lists. cute. they would invent an e-mail address and add that to my domain name and then use the result e-mail address to try and join a group, send mail to [...]
this has been a long time in coming. finally. i can run photoshop with the help of wine on linux. i would prefer that it run natively — a photoshop version that runs specifically on linux — but adobe so far has been mum about plans to port photoshop to linux.
wine is an open source [...]
recently, i tried embedding a video from youtube into this blog. the built-in editor — a modified version of tinymce — sort of “cleans up” the youtube embed code in such a way that when the post is published the layout of the whole blog looks out of whack. i didn’t want visitors to see [...]
today i got an e-mail from someone-that-cannot-be-named in huge (about 2cm high) bold letters, “please stop sending me notices“. or something to that effect.
talking face to face with a person is different when communicating with the same person via e-mail. to express emotion in an e-mail one has to be a little creative with the [...]
a couple of years ago one of my hard disks crashed. it wasn’t a major crash but i lost a good number of files nonetheless. i do have backups but since then i have tried to offload most of my files from my desktop and/or laptop to the internet.
at the time, one of my fast [...]
this topic has been taken up time and time again its still worth repeating.
change your passwords.
that string of letters and numbers that you call a password is what protects your online identity.
websites that asks you to register a user name and password usually recommend creating a password that’s at least eight (8) characters long using [...]
