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28
June

Kludge Around Google Firefox BrowserSync Error

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Google

So, yes, I’ve joined the Borg once again and have started playing with Google’s BrowserSync Firefox extension. I decided to import all of my old Opera bookmarks and then (silly me) expected BrowserSync to be able to feed them all up to The Borg Collective (I mean the main Google server). What I [...]

26
June

BlueMithrandir the Blue Xweetok

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

Oh yes. Ph34r m3!!!

16
June

Google Video Player For Linux

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 10 comments Posted in: Google, Linux

Got your attention, did I?
I run Linux on my Apple G4 Powerbook, which means that I don’t have the luxury of such niceties as… oh, I don’t know… FLASH!?!?! So I was happy to find that even though I can’t view Google Video’s Flash-based movies, I can easily enough still play them on my [...]

16
June

Current Mood: Contentical

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 2 comments Posted in: Life in General

“Contentical” as in “pretty okey dokey with how things are going as of late” that is.
My beautiful children and bride are sort of settling in in our new home. My bride is making some friends here and there, as are my kiddos. There is reportedly a homeschooling luncheon/picnic/get-together thingey tomorrow that we’ll be partaking [...]

12
June

Amarok 1.4 and Why You Should Care

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 1 comment Posted in: Life in General

Amarok 1.4 has been released and all I can say is WWWWOOOOOOOWWWW.  This release is amazing, guys.  I’ve been waiting for it to show up in my kubuntu updates list and it hasn’t, so tonight I hunted a bit and found this announcement showing how to get it for dapper.  As I type this, I’m [...]

08
June

SuSE 10.1 Online Sources

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 6 comments Posted in: Linux

Just installed 10.1 on my work laptop yesterday.  I have an IBM ThinkPad T42, and it doesn’t look like XGL is going to work for me on that.  Bummer.    That’s some of the reason that I went through this upgrade.  =:/
Just found this helpful link for finding SUSE 10.1 online package installation sources, and am [...]

04
June

So, as a prelude… you may think of it as something very important to learn in life… if ever you are planning on digging very, very, very large rocks out of your New England back yard, be sure to cover yourself head to boots in mosquito repellant. Otherwise, you will assuredly find yourself covered [...]