February 2011
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kde 4.5 - using dual monitor wallpapers in a...
KDE 4.5 does not support spreading a single wallpaper image across dual monitors. Initially, I attempted splitting the wide (3840x1080) images in half, then using KDE’s slideshow to have them both change at the same time; unfortunately, KDE’s slideshow pulls images in a random order.
Eventually I found a solution. Set each KDE desktop to slideshow, pointed at a folder which contains...
May 2010
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Which language?
iamgabeaudick:
Found this on a forum. In response to the question “Which programming language should I learn first?” - one user responds:
Depends. To program in an expressive and powerful language: Python To get a website up quickly: PHP To mingle with programmers who call themselves “rockstars”: Ruby. To really learn to program: C. To achieve enlightenment: Scheme. To feel depressed: SQL To...
April 2010
2 posts
you aren't understanding me
…and then we’ll sit at opposing ends of a fourteen-foot (mahogany?) table in some conference room that doesn’t exist and we’ll discuss the game plan, the strategy, the slogan/motto/brainwash and they’ll periodically bring us coffee and bagels and catered lunches.
We’ll scratch empty poetry on yellow legal pads, pretending to pay attention. ‘MEETING...
Only backwards
You can’t write that down, she tells me. Or everybody will know. But I do it anyway; Write it down in big fat Sharpie (R? TM?) Permanent Marker on the vestibule (? Maybe just a hall?) wall. And I sign it in only slightly smaller characters, with that disctinctive half-cursive SCO combination I hate but have resigned myself to accepting as my signature.
For good measure, I add my phone...
September 2009
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November 2008
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But what religion are you *really*?
sarahb:
turtalia:
This is good clean fun — a quiz that asks you 20 questions and tells you what religions you most closely allign with.
be warned: Belief-O-Matic™ assumes no legal liability for the ultimate fate of your soul.
here are my top 10:
1. Theravada Buddhism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (97%) 3. Mahayana Buddhism (95%) 4. Liberal Quakers (88%) 5. Neo-Pagan (84%) 6. New Age...
October 2008
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Why do you think it is the governments job to keep...
distorte:
Why do you think it is the governments job to keep you safe from terrorists and not the governments job to keep you safe from illness? I just don’t get this.
In my opinion, terrorists are typically the enemy of a state. Illnesses rarely target victims based on culture, geography, et cetera.
September 2008
1 post
Found whilst packing
Bottom desk drawer. Locked. Key long since lost. Post-makeshift-crowbar nets: A broken (cleanly in half) pencil next to a barely legible post-it note reading: NO no no no, the mouse could not have written that letter (No idea what this means, though it is clearly in my (or some approximation of my) handwriting).
July 2008
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May 2008
1 post
4yrs later... and still no idea who 'yes motion...
ymi.diaryland.com