Archive for March, 2009
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
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, Greasemonkey (on which Better GMail relies), and AdBlock Plus all ...
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
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 just keep forgetting what to do when it crops up.
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
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 the server.
Some searching turned up a solution which is ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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 +with_default_names variant may be specified. This causes package contents to be ...
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