Honestly, they really are. I LOVE them. My lovely bride thinks I’m nuts, and I irritate her to no ends when, on rare occasion, we sit down to watch TV together. Rather than skipping through all the commercials like my … Continue reading →

So, they snuck this one in on me. =:) I didn’t realize that 1.5 was released yet, but apparently, it was. I’ve taken the plunge and upgraded to a completely stock 1.5 installation, as well as cleaning up the directory … Continue reading →

Like many other things, sound in Linux is not nearly as easy as it should be. Briefly, the problem is that many/most sound cards in computers these days do not do hardware sound mixing. This means that they are physically … Continue reading →

Wow, I really need a vacation. And, curiously enough, I am now on one, thank God. Just in the nick of time, I think. Friday, Saturday and Sunday were not at all restful, for a variety of reasons. Not at … Continue reading →

Doldrums. I’ve got them. I get them more often than I’d like. Now what to do with them….

I ran across this article that discusses a total Mac newbie’s first impressions with Mac OS X. It’s pretty light and entertaining reading. And what it’s done more than anything has been to whet my appetite for a Mac OS … Continue reading →

As it turns out, after having spent far too much time trying to debug this, I found a bug in Kopete that was causing the problems with using a SOCKS proxy in KDE. Along the way, I learned that a … Continue reading →

I’ve been banging my head against the wall for a good couple of hours and had to vent…. I needed to get Kopete (a REALLY good KDE IM client) to use my Squid proxy server. Well, it’s not designed to … Continue reading →