This nifty trick, requiring Firefox and the Adblock Plus extension, will block Facebook from your computer, except when you are on the Facebook site, or using the photo uploader on Facebook. Personally, I recommend not hosting your photos at Facebook. Use PicasaWeb or Flickr and link to them from Facebook. That way you don’t lose [...]
Tagged geek, social mediaIf your computer crashes on resume with any version of Ubuntu after 9.04, and you have a Radeon video card, this might be your answer. Open a terminal and type the following. sudo echo options radeon modeset=0 > /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf Then reboot, and you may have resume back. I did. If you care about the techie [...]
Tagged geek, linux, ubuntuWe weren’t home an hour yesterday (from the State 4H Horse Show) when Delaney reported that her PC wasn’t working. It worked fine when she shut it down last Thursday. It appeared as though something was wrong with her graphics card. So I plugged the monitor into the on board graphics port and rebooted. It [...]
I’ve been using Yahoo Zimbra Desktop as my email client on my work laptop for about two weeks. I’m impressed. I hate Outlook with a passion, and can’t use Thunderbird for work because I need to be able to send email in 10 pt Verdana (don’t ask). Zimbra passes the first test, I can specify [...]
Tagged geekSome parents disallow all video games because Jesus wasn’t a gamer. Others, like me, allow pretty much any video game because we have never seen any evidence in our kids that the games are a negative influence. Then there is this guy, who made his son study the Geneva Convention and allows him to play [...]
Tagged Games, ParentingStep 1: Wipe your hard drive. WTF? It’s almost like Microsoft wants people to abandon their operating systems.
Last night at 9 PM EST, something incredible happened in my marriage. Michelle sat on the couch with me, watched an entire episode of Dr. Who, and enjoyed it. Really, you have no idea how big this is. For 17 years of marriage I’ve been forced to the basement to enjoy my sci-fi. With the [...]
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Tagged geek, homeschooliingThis will only be funny to my 2 or 3 geek readers… Visual Basic would be Satanism – Except that you don’t REALLY need to sell your soul to be a Satanist… Python would be Humanism: It’s simple, unrestrictive, and all you need to follow it is common sense. Many of the followers claim to [...]
Tagged funny, geekThe Linux guy and the teacher have talked. Cooler heads have prevailed. It turns out the teacher’s school district runs all sorts of open source software and that she has learned more about technology in the last few days that she had in the last 5 years. The author of the original rant will be [...]
Tagged Education, linuxThe geniuses at Google think they might be able to predict flu outbreaks up to 2 weeks before the CDC can identify the hotspots. The theory is that people start searching on flu related terms when they start to feel ill, well before they ever get to a doctor. By tracking those search terms they [...]
Tagged HealthDon’t rub your eyes, this actually is a homschool related post. I know, weird isn’t it? Nathan Swartz and Olivia Meiring let the apartment lease expire, bought an RV, and they are exploring the US while road schooling their 7 year old. They are paying the bills with freelance web work. As far as school, [...]
Tagged HomeschoolingI’ve got a serious problem with Horseshues and I’m completely stumped. I was upgrading to 2.6.2 with WordPress Automatic Upgrade and it failed. After the failure, I can no longer get to any admin screen. It’s not a login issue, I can’t even get to a login screen. Try this link to see what I [...]
Tagged geekParty with Google likes it’s 2001. O’DonnellWeb was there.
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