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Wine & WinRAR

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software

Yes­ter­day, I fin­ished down­load­ing a large file which had been archived in multi-part RAR for­mat. I went to unrar the file but unrar for linux just wasn’t work­ing and Ark1 wasn’t rec­og­niz­ing RAR files after I upgraded to the lastest beta for KDE 3.5. This was an unac­cept­able state of affairs as I really wanted […]

Tags: Code, linux, Upgrade

Read more | Comments (0) | Sep 24, 2005

Firefox Tip

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software

Have you been using Fire­fox for sev­eral months? And dur­ing that time noticed that it’s tak­ing longer & longer for the Save File dia­log box to come up? Then likely, you’ve got the same prob­lem that I’ve had. For­tu­nately, there’s an easy (but slow) fix for this.   Instruc­tions: Open Fire­fox. Go into Tools -> Options […]

Tags: coffee, firefox, history, home, linux, Privacy, problem, tools, windows

Read more | Comments (0) | Aug 19, 2005

Site Updates

Posted by Mark | Filed under Site News

I finally got around to updat­ing the Gallery’s CSS to bet­ter match the styling of the rest of the site; plus I added some of the more inter­est­ing pho­tos that I took dur­ing our local 4th of July cel­e­bra­tions. I’ve also tweaked the About page by adding back in a sketch of the site’s mascot. […]

Tags: coffee, CSS, gallery, linux, Photos, problem, Wife

Read more | Comments (0) | Jul 31, 2005

Configure ALSA for Crystal 4237B

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers

While hav­ing wire­less Inter­net access is very sweet, I don’t cur­rently have work­ing sound on my lap­top (it was also some­what prob­lem­atic with SuSE too). I’ve been googing for anwers and not had a lot of luck. I did find that I need to have acpi=off when I boot up or Ubuntu won’t be able […]

Tags: 6.10, Code, linux, problem, sound, ubuntu

Read more | Comments (2) | May 13, 2005

Sweet, Sweet Wireless Internet

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers

One of the many lovely gifts that Ariesna and I received for our wed­ding was a Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G router.1 Since a wire­less router is use­less with­out some­thing to con­nect to it; I went out and picked up a Linksys WPC54GS Wireless-G Note­book Adapter. Since I was still kind of dazed from the whole wedding/honey-night […]

Tags: anime, annoyed, Code, geek, home, Links, linux, Love, PHP, problem, Software, tv, ubuntu, windows

Read more | Comments (2) | May 12, 2005