Finally happened. I made the switch to Fedora. I’d been a Kubuntu user since 2006, but since the switch to Pulse Audio I have had serious problems with sound under Kubuntu in 10.10, 11.04, and 11.10 beta. I have no such trouble with Fedora 15.
I’ll likely be moving all systems I manage [...]
For years, holders of Chase’s Business Card earned 3% cash back on meals, gas, and office supplies. No more, according to junk mail just received offering the new and improved Ink card! New card holders — and I’m sure existing holders eventually — are being subject to a new, crap reward program: [...]
It’s been broken for at least a month, apparently. As long as it lasts, there is apparently a workaround: https://docs.google.com/?action=updoc
I am pleased to see Google Calendar now natively generates a PDF when printing out an agenda. In the past, the print version of an agenda was a clean HTML page. Now it has more colors and clean page breaks. Hooray!
So fail boat on recording my student loan in both Gnucash and Moneydance. Years ago, I had success using Gnucash for this, but was forced to file a bug this time. Meanwhile, Moneydance has had a different issue that causes historical loans to calculate incorrect principal and interest, dating back to 2009.
I cannot [...]
Today I happened across a couple of packages to test drive in the near future for photo backup, though neither are specifically tailored for said purpose:
backupninja - lightweight, extensible meta-backup system Backupninja lets you drop simple config files in /etc/backup.d to coordinate system backups. Backupninja is a master of many arts, including incremental remote filesystem [...]
In Picasa, each album is a virtual collection of photos, along with a bag of virtually modeled edits not actually applied to the original photos. As each album can have photos from anywhere assigned to it, it’s possible for a given album to be a virtual home to files from all over a hard [...]
I realize this has been going on for a while, but I hadn’t bothered to attempt to list anything since sometime in 2006, back when Ebay first changed its policy to fuck individual sellers. So unsurprisingly, today I find this shit:
Sellers need to say in their listing specifically which payment methods they accept and [...]
Just in case anyone tries to be too cute by half: Uploading photos from an Android phone for convenience while traveling and then assuming later it’s possible to “Import from Picasa Web Albums…” from within the Picasa application does not work quite like you expect. The photos will download, but not into a [...]
Finally decided to aggregate my various photos into a single place. Having moved to Gmail, it’s hard not to exploit other Google properties as well. Picasa Web integrates pretty well with Picasa, even ancient version 3.0, the last version officially available for Linux. (It’s actually just Picasa for Windows and a build [...]