I recently purchased a GPS (Garmin 2610) to tote around on motorcycle trips. If you have never tinkered with one – it is VERY cool. Unfortunately the MapSource software that comes with it requires Windows… Ugh. I’ve run VMWare and QEMU on my Ubuntu box before. VMWare was very nice but a pain to install [...]
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ramblings of a coldfusion developer
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I always set ColdFusion to NOT run at startup - why have it eating resources when you aren't using it? On Windows I had a few batch scripts to easily kick off ColdFusion. I dug around looking for something similar for Linux... I found a few things which I've added to my wiki in the [...]
Ever since I've been using two monitors at work I've wanted to setup two monitors at home but finances are tight and I just can't afford another flat screen. But this weekend I did dust off my daughters old 17" CRT and tried to get it working with my Dell widescreen. I knew the latest [...]
I know what I'm doing tonight! I've been a long time Gnome fan but KDE has always intrigued me. When I did my latest Ubuntu update I was going to switch but then I found out v4 was just around the corner so decided to wait. Today they officially released KDE4 and it looks good. [...]
My kid's PC is REALLY old. I decided for Xmas I'd get them a new PC and ordered one of the $199 Wal-Mart Linux PCs. Tonight I started to tinker with it in preparation of sticking it under the tree. The hardware seems decent. The OS it ships with 'gOS' is not so hot. Out [...]