A Vista tip? Blasphemy! Well, I’m just trying it out at work, and it seems to be ok so far. But I got annoyed with the new Alt+Tab. I don’t know what people’s obsession with window thumbnails are, but to me they make all the choices look similar, where as icons clearly differentiate things. Anyways, […]
I spent too much time tracking this one down today, so here’s a note for posterity. Drupal lets you create “roles” that are essentially permission sets for different kinds of users. One of the permissions in these roles is to allow users to edit content that they authored. I had this enabled for the “content […]
So I got around to writing some startup batch scripts that try to mount some network drives. The net use command is easy enough to use, but I ran into a separate problem. If the machine starts up too fast, then the network isn’t up yet, so net use fails. So I started looking for […]
Found this as I was reading about the supposed Comcast Bittorrent shaping controversy. A quick guide to enabling protocol encryption in the most common bittorrent clients, so that the upstream shapers can’t inspect packets to find bittorrent traffic.
I’m sure nobody cares about this. I’m just writing it down because it took me way too long to figure it out. I’ve had my new PC for about a year and a bit now, and I’ve never been able to resume from S3 sleep using the keyboard. I originally thought it was an X64 […]
With Gvim, one can finally use the whole color space (not just 16-colors) to do nice code syntax highlighting and such. Unfortunately, actually developing a good colorscheme is pretty difficult and tedious. That’s where this page comes in. It lets you browse a bunch of canned color scheme files, rendered against some sample code. See […]
I think I actually got somewhere this time. The end result is: Configuration details are available here. Note that the above shot is just for arial. The other fonts available on the system often look much better. But the point of that shot is that arial actually looks semi-decent now.
I’m kind of on the fence about Safari for Windows, but one of the truly great features is to be able to resize the text fields in any form. Turns out there’s a Firefox extension that lets you do exactly the same thing. It’s not as ‘pretty’ as the Safari version, but it works just […]
Most Thinkpad’s that come with the trackpoint input device also come with a special middle mouse button that can be used to switch into ‘scroll’ mode. You hold down the middle button and push the trackpoint and it scrolls in the direction you push. Most annoyingly, however, it doesn’t work with many apps. But it […]
To make up for my half-assed last attempt, I’ve decided to go all the way, and start a real community-driven site with its own domain. www.ubuntutips.net. I’m still calling it a beta, but feel free to register and comment or even send tip submissions to me through the link at the top of the page.