After talking with some people about bug 75613 I thought a poll is in order. Post your thoughts as well…Incidentally this would most likely be a hidden preference and not enabled by default.
Continue reading about GNOME Bug 75613: Should Edge-Flipping be in GNOME 2
Disappointed with every cd burning package I’ve tried for Linux, I found that the best solution for me was to use the command line utilities, so I put it all together with this simple Perl script. It takes a .m3u file and turns it into a CD. A .m3u file is just a [...]
I’ve been running GNOME2 for a couple months now.
My latest desktop looks like this .
Musings below…..
Overall I’m quite pleased, however I think some people might be disappointed, but that’s because they don’t see the potential. GNOME2 is a bit rough around the edges. I expect 2.0.1 will iron out some of the wrinkles, [...]
Here’s a script I wrote to clean up old files in directories. You basically give it a directory and a number of days and it will delete all files older than that number of days in that directory.
#!/usr/bin/perl -l
# Script: cleanup.pl
# Author: Jamin P. Gray
# Purpose: Will cleanup directories [...]
EimiMetamorphoumai writes: Quick little program that helps me with my spelling.
I’ve always hated traditional spelling checkers. They’re fine for catching unintentional mistakes (usually), but most of the time when I don’t know how to spell a word, I know I don’t know how. I hate going through the process of guessing (poorly), then [...]
Ben and Lori came into town this weekend and we all had a great time. Click below to read all about it.
Ben and Lori arrived in town around 10:30pm Friday night. We all (Amy, me, Adam, Ryan, Ben, Lori, and some of Amy and Lori’s friends) met at Amy’s flat. We all [...]
Yet Another Topic: Perl
We’ve got a new topic: Unix Tips and Tricks.
I made some mods to the site so that new tags will be accepted in comments and wrote a simple perl script to markup code before posting. Now i want to test posting code to a story. So here is the code I use to markup code before posting:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print “<pre><code>
“;
while (<>) {
s/&/&/g;
s/</</g;
s/>/>/g;
s///g;
print;
}
print [...]
I’ve made it three weeks. This matches the longest I’ve ever gone without a cigarette since I started being a regular smoker four or five years ago. The cravings still come, at times, but overall it’s getting easier. And WOW, the money I’m saving! Well over $100/month.
Check out the new poll [...]
