Mac

Mac OS X Screenshot Secrets

On OS X, taking a screenshot is not as easy as pressing PrtScn (Print Screen). Well it's easy to do, but it's not easy to remember and thus I present these shortcut keys from O'Reilly's Mac OS X Screenshot Secrets: Key...
LinuxUbuntu

Ubuntu mirror troubles

This has been happening all day every time I attempt to do apt-get dist-upgrade: The following packages will be upgraded: libsmbclient samba samba-common smbclient smbfs 5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0...
General

links for 2007-11-16

Apple - Support - Discussions - X11 in Leopard ... Discussion thread on X11 in Leopard with links to updates and info on getting Gimp and Inkscape working (tags: mac osx x11 leopard gimp inkscape) Leopard and X11 - The...
General

Bookcase

This is the "bookcase" that was issued to me (and many of my colleagues) at work. As you can see, it's not very practical, especially with the height of the shelves, which makes it impossible to fully utilize the space without...
Mac

MacBook Pro

My new MacBook Pro arrived yesterday. I expected that it was going to come with Leopard pre-installed, but instead it came with Tiger and a Leopard DVD. Perhaps this is better in case there are enough bugs and incompatibilities,...
General

links for 2007-11-13

The Flash Blog » Running Flash in the Vista Sidebar! Since Vista gadgets are essentially just HTML and JavaScript there is no reason that you can’t include other browser technologies such as Flash and Flex. (tags: vista...