Monthly Archives: March 2009

Better GMail Causes 100% CPU Usage in Firefox

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Jeff Fitzsimons

For the last several weeks, I’ve noticed excessive CPU usage whenever GMail (GAYD-hosted email, specifically) is open in Firefox. By turning off add-ons one at a time, I found that this is caused solely by Better GMail 2. Firebug, FireGPG, … Continue reading →

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Tearing on MythTV with VLC

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Jeff Fitzsimons

After updating to Ubuntu 8.10, I started to get tearing artifacts. This crop up especially badly during scenes that involve panning. The MythTV Wiki explains the fix for tearing: echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/hpet/max-user-freq Well, it works for me, anyway. I … Continue reading →

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Can’t Log in to VMware Server Console on Ubuntu

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Jeff Fitzsimons

As usual, I sped through the VMware Server installation, just using default settings. I then found myself unable to log in to the VMware Server Console. I would always get an error: You do not have permissions to login to … Continue reading →

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Making OS X Command Line Behave More Like Linux (GNU)

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Jeff Fitzsimons

The command-line oddities of Mac OS X’s BSD heritage drive me insane. I much prefer the behavior of the GNU toolchain, as provided by Ubuntu Linux. To begin, first install MacPorts. MacPorts Installation Variant +with_default_names With several MacPorts packages, the … Continue reading →

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