Marc Abramowitz – Page 214

Freebie Linux machine

A while back Yahoo! had an event where they gave away spare, old computing equipment to employees for free. I picked up a Stackable Systems rackmount server with a Pentium 3 850 MHz and a 36 GB Seagate Cheetah drive. My hope was...

GtDProductivityThunderbird

Processing email

I used to get uncomfortable when my inbox required me to scroll. Lately, inspired by David Allen's Getting Things Done (GtD) methodology, I try to get my inbox to zero several times a day. Before you say, "I could never...",...

GeneralPerlProgramming

Got Zoidberg working

After quite a bit of futzing around, I got Zoidberg working. I had mentioned here that I had installed it, but that the cd command wasn't working. Well, here's what I did... (more…)...

General

grep with color

Wow, I didn't realize until today that good ol' GNU grep supports color highlighting. Up until now, I had been installing rgrep from the jed distribution everywhere so that I could get recursive grepping and highlighting. But GNU...

General

CSI

Got this in the mail today and found it to be amusing: I wonder what's next..."Desperate Rabbis"... ? :-)

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Bug in Auto-hyperlink URLs WordPress plugin

The Auto-hyperlink URLs WordPress plugin is very cool, but I found a gnarly little bug in it while I was viewing this post: (more…)...

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Cooking classes for kids (Bay Area)

For parents with kids, my friend's wife is offering cooking classes for ages 9 to 14 on Saturdays starting March 26. She is a professionally trained chef and likes to teach kids. There are adult classes as well. For more...