The other day I set out to write a post on getting a WordPress instance running on OpenShift. I got sidelined in the confusion of determining the best place to install rhc tools from. I’m trying to be more deliberate… Continue Reading →
Mortgage Madness I refinanced again–once again with no closing costs while sacrificing some on the rate. Interest rates are again at historic lows which meant I had to take avantage of two great opportunities–lowering my rate by three quarters of a… Continue Reading →
Today I ran into a strange problem where messages seemed to be missing from my Inbox. Running “repair folder” from the properties tab automatically moved several messages to the trash. Moving them back to the inbox and repeating the process… Continue Reading →
My recent post on fixing terminator was months in the making, partly because I lost the environment I was using to double-check all the steps and partly because other things just kept coming up. Several months back when I found the original fix… Continue Reading →
In my switch from Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) one of the things I lost was Terminator. Even though it was in EPEL and installed without issue, the cursor wasn’t visible, making it hard to use. For a… Continue Reading →
I came across an interesting situation yesterday with OpenShift Express. I was trying to register a new domain using rhc-create-app and received this cryptic error message: There was a problem communicating with the server. Response message: getaddrinfo: Servname not supported for… Continue Reading →
I’ve been a big fan of python bugzilla for a long time and used it often in Fedora to gather bugs for the release blocker meetings. If you aren’t familiar with python bugzilla, it is a very useful library and… Continue Reading →
With less time to live on the edge in Fedora-land these days I went looking for less excitement by way of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for my Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I was motivated to take a step back… Continue Reading →
While searching for a solution to a problem with XMind, I came across this forum post mentioning VUE. I haven’t spent very much time with VUE, but it appears to be a very robust and full featured mind mapping tool. … Continue Reading →
I love the beauty and rebound affect of sharing information. I posted about Merlin Mann’s talk at Rutgers and James remind me that I had given him the idea of keeping separate question lists for different people a long time… Continue Reading →
Have you ever subscribed to a new mailing list and wanted to read all the old posts in your email reader? Here’s how to do it. We will use the Fedora Development list mail archive for January 2010 as an… Continue Reading →
One of my favorite, must-have Firefox plug-ins is It’s All Text. Not only does it make writing long entries in web forms pleasant, it can also save your bacon. Just today I wrote a long email in Gmail using It’s… Continue Reading →
The Fedora Project’s in person events are great for picking up new applications and tips from other people. I love it when little surprises come along that make the desktop experience more pleasant. Discovering Terminator was the last time this… Continue Reading →
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