Category Archives: software

Perl day 2: if statements

The if statements that I’ve seen in perl seem to be pretty much the standard. It looks like the standard kind that I’ve used in java. Today’s link is the perl – if statement syntax webpage. We got our basic … Continue reading

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Perl day 1: arguments

So here’s day one of my journey to learning perl. The reason I’m learning it is because there’s a lot of perl used at my work place. I can sort of read it, but I think it’s good to actually … Continue reading

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IBM TSM 6.2

I’m switching over from EMC Legato Networker to the IBM TSM 6.2 this year and I’m still in the phase of reading the documentation. I will say that it is a ton of things to read and the concepts of … Continue reading

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DeskPins – windows software

http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/deskpins.html This is pretty sweet for Windows when you want to pin a window on top of all other ones. This works like on my linux desktop where you can just keep a window on top of all other ones.

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Fedora 14 netbook new setup

I got rid of Ubuntu 10.10 on my netbook and installed the new Fedora 14. It’s nice to get away from the whole unity interface and have things like rdesktop work properly. Ended up putting this content on a page … Continue reading

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mazda3 steering wheel controls with bluetooth audio

I made a quick video of controlling which tracks would be played on my Mazda3 sport hatchback. After pairing the phone, just had to press the up and down on the left hand to get songs to play, skip, or … Continue reading

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Thunderbird 3 performance slowdowns

Ever since I moved over to Thunderbird 3 in Windows, I’ve noticed slowdowns when trying to read my IMAP mail. I’ve turned off synchronization so that everything is done via our CentOS imap servers running dovecot and haproxy. Faking out … Continue reading

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wink screencast tutorial software

I just discovered this software called Wink for screencast tutorials it looks like. I’m going to check it out and see what the dealio is: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ It’s available on linux and windows which is cool too!

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Thunderbird reply quick tip

Thunderbird tip my coworker told me. Usually when I reply to an e-mail, I hit the reply button and then delete out a bunch of the text that is now inline in my new e-mail. Now I can skip this … Continue reading

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puppet at home

After talking with a coworker today, I decided that I would go ahead and use puppet on my netbook. I don’t constantly distrohop, but when I do, it would be nice to have puppet automatically install all the packages I … Continue reading

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