Category Archives: software

Setting up Xymon/Hobbit with nginx

September 14, 2010 – 10:11 am

I just set this up today and it was a pain in the arse, so I figured I’d leave a trace of it somewhere on the internets. I hope this helps you.

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KDE 4.4.3

May 24, 2010 – 12:54 pm

KDE 4.4.3 has been out for a bit and finally came to Debian Squeeze recently. You may have been running it sooner on Sid. The first thing I noticed was that when I logged in all I got was a black screen. No wallpaper, no clicking the desktop, and I couldn’t see any task bars, [...]

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gfxCardStatus

May 18, 2010 – 1:56 pm

gfxCardStatus is n open-source menu bar application that keeps track of which graphics card your dual-GPU (late 2008/2009 w/ 9400M/9600M GT, or 2010 i5/i7 w/ Intel HD/330M) MacBook Pro is using at any given time, and allows you to switch between them on demand. via gfxCardStatus: menu bar gpu status monitor for os x / [...]

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Hans Reiser, Filer.

July 9, 2008 – 4:47 am

In perhaps the best technology faux pas this year, salon has this work of art (emphasis mine): The Hans Reiser trial was big news in the San Francisco Bay Area and high-tech community, with both Wired and the San Francisco Chronicle live-blogging the proceedings and the Oakland Tribune assigning a reporter to it full-time. “48 [...]

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