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Entries from April 2006

Do People Really Think Like This ?!?

April 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Some nice lady with a very political blog writes that Linux is a threat to America. Read It! Believe It!
There are countless pricesless quotes there. Here is a sample of a few:
Imagine if the State of the Union address were hacked because the TV station decided to save money by using Linux? Imagine if a [...]

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Tags: General · Linux · Quotes

For all you Madisonians

April 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Order pizza from Glass Nickel Pizza. They has converted 4 of their delivery vehicles to tun on vegetable oil bio diesel.

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Tags: General

Updated Firefox Extensions

April 24th, 2006 · No Comments

I updated my Favorite Firefox Extensions post with Fission, a plugin which overlays the location bar with a progress bar, a la Safari, and SwiftTabs, a tab switcher. It’s a simple little addition, but once I saw it in action in Safari, I instantly needed it in Firefox. I find myself again switching aimlessly around [...]

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Tags: General · Mac

Virtual Desktops on the Mac

April 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Sometimes my little 12″ Powerbook gets a little cluttered and I wish I had a bit more screen space. Today I found VirtueDesktop, which is a Virtual Desktop switcher for the Mac. I have been using it for a bit and now it is on my list of irreplacable apps right next to Quicksilver.

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Tags: Mac

Recovering Windows Passwords

April 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Cain & Abel, besides being a biblical reference, could be a handy little utility to recover a lost Administrators password (or any other password) on Windows-based computers. I haven’t tried it but it is definately going on my portable USB drive.

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Tags: Random Linkage

Troll-Caught Salmon

April 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment

I made a quick stop at the Metro Market today after work and as I left, I saw a signboard which read “Troll-Caught Salmon”.
Does anyone besides me read that and think of something like this?

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Tags: General

DBA Humor

April 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I have always wanted one of thost t-shirts which read
SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0
0 record(s) returned
Maybe if this movie ever gets made I will finally buy one and wear it to the movie theater.

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Tags: Programming · Random Linkage