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SOLVED: Resetting your Apple ID with cut-and-paste enabled

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:24:53 GMT

If you’re like me, you have lots of passwords. More than you can keep in your head. So, you use an app like KeePassX to hold and secure them all. I keep all of my passwords securely stored in Dropbox so they are accessible via my computers and my BlackBerry device (via the FileScout Dropbox [...] Related posts:

SOLVED: How to put your NeatWorks data into Dropbox As I use Dropbox more and more, I’m beginning to...
Removing and Editing Windows “network” Passwords My work machine constantly locks me out of my two...
SOLVED: Sharing TweetDeck settings across multiple Windows and Linux machines I’ve been using TweetDeck for quite some time on Linux,...

SOLVED: Permanently setting “Hide Join/Part Messages” off in XChat

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:27:06 GMT

I’ve been using XChat since early year 2000 (loooong time BitchX user before that), and have found it somewhat annoying to have to manually and interactively disable the “Join/Part” messages in each IRC channel I am lurking on. To do that, you normally have to right-click each channel’s tab, go to Settings → Hide Join/Part [...] Related posts:

ROT13 plugin for Xchat (in C) 10 seconds of hacking produced a ROT13 plugin for XChat...
dspam Hackery 101, converting messages to mbox I’ve been running dspam for many years here at gnu-designs,...
Removing thousands of duplicate email messages from your email I’ve been slowly loading all of my mail into GMail...

HOWTO: Convert a VirtualBox image to a VMware Disk Image

Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:23:58 GMT

While playing with the recent FreeDOS 1.1 release (only 17 years in the making), I found a need to convert a VirtualBox appliance image to a VMware disk image, but the steps weren’t clear or straightforward. Here’s what I did, in a nutshell: First, install VirtualBox. You can grab the install from the main VirtualBox [...] Related posts:

SOLVED: Windows 7 networking in VMware Workstation and ESXi I’ve been using VMware Workstation for many, many years and...
Enormous World Trade Center image montage WTC Image Montage I was given an image to add...
VMware “undefined symbol: g_get_user_special_dir” error SOLVED If you’re using the latest version of VMWare Workstation, and...

At 1:38pm today, I lost my best friend, my buddy, Dart…

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:25:36 GMT

He’s not really lost, he’s still alive and well, preserved in my memories, thousands of photos and the remaining energy he left around my home. He’ll live on immortal as long as I don’t let those memories fade. Dart lived a happy, bountiful life with his bigger brother “Monk” taking care of him every day. [...] Related posts:

We’ve lost another one of our own sisob; fellow advogato’er, aka Mark Finlay of GNOME fame, passed...
USA Today interview at Palmsource conference Hey look! I was in USA Today! Note to self:...
My friend Rex was shot dead More news about my friend Rex who was shot and...

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Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:10:57 GMT

I’ve been an AT&T customer for a very long time; over a decade of mobile phone use with their services, from my age’ing Nokia to my various Treo devices to several RIM BlackBerry phones. I’m currently on the biggest, baddest Enterprise “Unlimited” data, “Unlimited” texting plan they offer, including International Roaming and texting as well, [...]Related posts:

My first two hours with the BlackBerry Playbook

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:13:03 GMT

I picked up a BlackBerry Playbook today to test, review and attempt to integrate it into my business workflow. After all the hype, pre-release videos and hundreds of reviews I’ve read prior to its launch this week, I knew this was going to be the right tablet device for me. Boy was I wrong. Here’s [...]Related posts:

SOLVED: General Failure in sending the command to the application

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:14:56 GMT

This problem results from clicking on a URL, mailto or web link embedded inside an email in Outlook when you have Mozilla Firefox set as your default browser: If you’ve suffered from this problem using Outlook and Firefox on Windows, I have a fix! Launch regedit.exe (if you’re on Windows 7, right-click and “Run as [...] Related posts:

HOWTO: Configure Tor + SASL + irc to connect to Freenode

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:15:09 GMT

I fought this problem on the train into the city today, because my MiFi‘s hostname was not correctly reversing to it’s given IP (verified by dig) and Freenode was denying the connection; it looked like this: Mar 22 06:51:41 * Looking up irc.freenode.net Mar 22 06:51:41 * Connecting to chat.freenode.net (86.65.39.15) port 6667... Mar 22 [...] Related posts:

SOLVED: How to use Ctrl-Alt-F1 in VMware with Linux guests

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:09:27 GMT

If you’re like me, you probably use VMware Workstation (or VMware Player or VMware Fusion) quite a bit to test different aspects of other operating systems without having to break your host machine. I do development and testing on Linux, and need to ensure that the latest Linux distributions don’t break my code, or that [...] Related posts:

SOLVED: How to put your NeatWorks data into Dropbox

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 17:07:26 GMT

As I use Dropbox more and more, I’m beginning to see that it really has a lot of value, and not just of the normal “file backup” variety. (see some of my other blog posts on Dropbox for some of my other ideas). I’ve been using NeatWorks NeatDesk for awhile, and began relying on it [...] Related posts: