Archive For June 17th, 2003

Sticky Notes

Does Gnome comes with a standard sticky notes app? KDE does, but when I restart it in a Gnome environment it blanks out the screen and one of the notes gets corrupted and called “data”. I found this Sticky Notes app through Google for Gnome. It looks nice. I’ll road test it for a few [...]

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RealPlayer and RH9

Despite earlier searches I couldn’t find any help getting Realplayer working on Red Hat 9. This solved it but now the 2fm stream is down so I can’t listen anyway! Run the following before you run Realplayer. Best way to do that is via a shell script as other apps may break with this modification. [...]

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The Editing Room – The Matrix Reloaded: The Abridged Script

Hehe, this is funny. Warning! Spoilers included!

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crap. software patents now almost legal in EU (fwd)

This post by Justin Mason is a fwd of a mail announcing the startling news that software patents are now legal in the EU. *bam* There goes Free Software in Europe! (maybe..) UPDATE! Justin posted a follow up stating that there’s another stage to go through before it’s law in the EU. Colm replied saying [...]

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Our Family Cat, Puss

You know, we never named our cat. I like to think it’s because cats are always half wild and you’re never sure what they’ll do. That’s certainly true for Puss. One moment you’re rubbing her soft fur, or scratching behind her ear, she’s purring and you’re relaxed. The next moment she has her claws into [...]

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