January 2008
5 posts
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Creative Juices
Someone took all my creative juices and made a smoothie.
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Debian vs Gentoo
At work we were asked via email what we liked about Debian. This is my response:
I came to Debian from Gentoo and have found that everything that is a pain in Gentoo is sensible in Debian. For most of the things that are well done in Gentoo have comparable features in Debian.
In Gentoo, I have an incredible amount of control over my packaging. In Gentoo I can choose to have certain features...
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KDE 4.0 Screenshots Tour
I went through this KDE 4.0 screenshots tour to check it out. I can’t say I’m thoroughly impressed.
I’ve been using KDE for years and have loved it. I’ve been using a Mac for almost a year and I love that too. Given my experience with the two I think the new KDE looks good and all but I’m really unimpressed. I’ve read elsewhere that 4.1 is supposed to be the real deal. Let’s hope so. The above...
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Pizza Hut Password
I like ordering pizza online because it’s really convenient. My preference is Papa John’s but I make concessions for others. I ordered pizza a while back from Pizza Hut (using nyms for the email address) and everything went okay.
I went back this evening but had forgotten my one-off password. I used their password reset and what did I get in my email? My original password. In cleartext....
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Sansa e270 + Ubuntu Gutsy + libmtp 0.2.4
If you install libmtp on Ubuntu 7.10 you get libmtp6-0.2.1 which is sorely out of date and does not play well with my Sansa player. Strangely, MTP in Amarok worked fine in 7.04 but Ubuntu identified it as a digital camera. Since it worked I didn’t complain. No such luck on 7.10. I installed libmtp6-0.2.1 and mtp-detect would segfault about 50% of the time.
The instructions I provide worked well...