Posts Tagged ‘tools’

A Bit of Home Improvement with Ryobi Tools

Posted by Mark | Filed under DIY

Back around Thanks­giv­ing, I hit up a sale at Home Depot and bought myself a 4 piece Ryobi One+ combo kit1. After Christ­mas I went back to Home Depot and picked up the Ryobi Tool Bag. The tool bag came loaded with a nice assort­ment of drill bits and a rachet­ing screw­driver with a vast […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jan 19, 2008

Admiring My Tool

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I carry a Leather­man Squirt P4 and once in a while, I take out of my pocket and set it on my desk. Either because it’s pok­ing my leg or I’m using it for some rea­son or another. Today I had it sit­ting out and was con­cen­trat­ing on our cur­rent big project, head­phones on and […]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Aug 28, 2007

amaroK & Magnatune

Posted by Mark | Filed under Music, Software

As has been noted on this blog mul­ti­ple times, I use Linux. Specif­i­cally, I use SuSE Linux. For my desk­top envi­ron­ment, I use KDE. There are sev­eral music play­ers avail­able for KDE but the one that is far & away the best is amaroK. It’s got some great orga­ni­za­tional tools, a cover man­ager and can […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 22, 2005

What A Day

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I had orig­i­nally planned on attend­ing a Pam­pered Chef party with my wife last Sun­day. I had been think­ing it would be some pleas­ant social­iz­ing over some tasty food with a bit of some­body try­ing to sell me some pricey kitchen stuff. That is to say a not entirely unpleas­ant to spend part of one’s […]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Aug 31, 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 […]

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

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