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Well, I broke down and bought a Hard Drive yesterday. I went with a seagate 60 gig. I couldn’t believe just how easy they made it to change a laptop harddrive. Sadly though it took me almost 8 hours to get everything back installed onto my computer just the way it was [...]

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RedFileBlog

I wrote a ruby+cgi blog+file upload utility. Only about 300 lines of code. Sure beats writting in rails
http://www.badcherry.org/Files/
http://rubyforge.org/projects/citriski/

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It is done!

[ 06:08 /media/SEA_DATA/video ] rm -rfv anime/

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I have long hated sendmail, but it was the only way that I could get mail delivered to my mailbox properly with fetchmail. This way my mail was set up was retrieving mail went fetchmail-+sendmail-+procmail-+spamprobe-+mbox then to send mutt-+cream-+esmtp. This worked just fine except for one thing, those darn spamers. They would [...]

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Stupid Me

Never ever ever execute powerful system cleansing commands first thing in the morning, NEVER!
sudo rm -rfv .*
I know the behavior of that command, but for some reason I didn’t know first thing in the morning and have since suffered some data loss. LOL, at least I can laugh over it. Among my losses [...]

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I’ve begun using iRate again. It is a lot of really good music for free (and legally too), but you have to sort through hundreds of bad songs before you start getting to the good ones. It is also a great way to get introduced to some bands that you would have never [...]

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WordPress refuses to leave pre tags along. I wrote a very simple wiki during the period of a week about a year ago, and an simple poorly written wiki even knew better than to fuck with pre tags. This is why I haven’t used software like this in the past. You would [...]

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New Desktop Look

I downloaded some new software and themes for my computer. I really like the new layout, so I am posting a screenshot here (it is really on DeviantArt, I’m just linking it).
Ubuntu GNU/Linux 5.10
Gnome 2.12.1
Drivel (journal editor)
Firefox (web browser)
All from art.gnome.org installed with gnome-art
Theme: AluminumAlloy-Smog
Icons: Still Life Brushed
BG: GNOME Waves 3

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