Category Archives: Computers

Blue Griffon HTML editor

Posted on June 13, 2011 by bill

Blue Griffon seems to be the descendant of the moribund NVU and Kompozer projects, offering a What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) HTML editing environment. Worth a look.

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Die Shapes and Radially Staggered Bonding

Posted on February 15, 2010 by bill

Over ten years ago I put aside my copy of the HP Journal, December 1996 edition for later reading.  I would like to relate some thoughts I have recently had on an article in it. As pin counts of integrated … Continue reading →

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Grace Hopper Quote

Posted on November 17, 2009 by bill

A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question. — Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

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ABLEConf 2009

Posted on October 18, 2009 by bill

Free. Saturday, October 24, 2009… 10am to 4pm at the University of Advancing Technology in Phoenix (Baseline Rd. just west of I-10). A full day of presentations and participation on free software. More info: http://www.ableconf.com/ Update: A good time and … Continue reading →

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Share Thunderbird Address book via LDAP

Posted on October 9, 2009 by bill

If you like this, please consider donating to fund further development. After years of frustration waiting for the Mozilla Thunderbird folks to add the ability to edit LDAP address-books, and years of frustration with the pigheadedness and brain-damagedness of LDAP … Continue reading →

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Scottsdale WordPress meetup group

Posted on September 23, 2009 by bill

I just found the Scottsdale WordPress Meetup Group/ and am hoping to go to the next one… see you there…

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Gimp 2.6 Toolbox is always in the way

Posted on September 11, 2009 by bill

The biggest frustration with Gimp 2.6 has been that pesky toolbox window always in the way over what I’m working on. Turns out it’s easy to make it act sanely. Try this: Go to Edit; Preferences; click Window Management; and … Continue reading →

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Mounting LVM volumes from Ubuntu LiveCD

Posted on June 8, 2009 by bill

sudo -i apt-get install lvm2 modprobe dm-mod vgchange -a y Also try – pvdisplay Displays physical volumes vgdisplay Displays volume groups lvdisplay Displays logical volumes and: man lvm

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Emacs soft word wrapping

Posted on October 2, 2008 by admin

If you’re frustrated with Emacs’ default behavior of displaying \ characters when wrapping long lines, try this: M-x longlines-mode M-x longlines-show-hard-newlines This only changes the way your file is displayed — it does not insert or remove anything from the … Continue reading →

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