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Asus P5Q-E and Splashtop/Express Gate

This Friday I received a box with several new computer components from our supplier NXSource, the business end of NCIX. I’m currently in the process of performing several new system builds and overwhelmingly chose the Asus P5Q series, in both -VM and -E based configurations.
As per its extension, the P5Q-VM will be going in an [...]

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Virtual desktop solutions for vista

Yesterday I asked around on twitter about any sort of software that provided linux/mac style virtual/multiple desktop support for Vista. I was abruptly met with “No.” and a “Get a mac.” as responses.
Fortunately, Google is my friend – and failing my friends suggestions, I did a couple quick searches for the software in question. [...]

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Eclipse PDT – one of many useful work tools

Just checked out the Eclipse SVN site and apparently the issue with dashes in new PHP filenames has been resolved. I upgraded my work copy to the latest nightly build and things seem to be going well. (The October 1st integration build might be better stability-wise, but I’ve had good luck with the nightly builds.)
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This is absolutely the last straw

I am either about to become one of the hardcore neckbeard-wielding Linux supporters, or do something drastic to Microsoft’s programmers. Why is it that an operating system like Vista, put together after five years of effort, is actually WORSE than its predecessor?
Just this week I’ve experienced the following issues with my legitimate, genuine MSDNAA [...]

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Webalizer statistics on DreamHost

In my last post, I detailed the way in which you could activate the Analog statistics application on DreamHost accounts with root WordPress installations. I’m really not a fan of Analog, though – my preferred application for statistics tracking is Webalizer.
I’ll describe the best way to install Webalizer in this shared hosting environment, with [...]

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VX2025wm and Ubuntu 6.10

I’ve always seemed to have more trouble setting up monitors and displays under Linux than should be warranted. Cobbling together a few forum posts from Google, here’s what I’ve come up with in xorg.conf that seems to have my VX2025wm working at native 1680×1050@60Hz resolution. You may not need the ModeLine parameter, depending on how [...]

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