On my laptop, I haven’t booted into Windows for several months, and I am running out of free disk space, so I decided that I would delete my windows paritions and then resize my root partition. This page mentions the GParted Live-CD as an easy way to accomplish this.
Once I booted the CD, it was very easy to delete the partitions, and specify the size of the root partition. I was a litte worried about my situation, because my existing parition needed to be moved in addtion to being resized.
But it worked perfectly, and after a few hours, my parition is 70GB larger.
Continue Reading August 8th, 2008
Boxee looks like a pretty interesting “10 foot” experience for watching content from your computer. Recently they announced a linux version, and I was interested in trying it out on my XPS m1330, especially since Joost is not available for linux.
The install was very easy, but I have not been able to successfully run it. When I try an launch it, the window appears, but it never finished drawing. Also, I am not able to select anything.
I have installed it, and may install it again when it enters beta.
Continue Reading August 7th, 2008
This post mentions that the Windows Mobile version of Skype has been upated. We use Skype at work, so I was interested in trying this out.
The download and install went well. I was able to use it to send text messages, but I wasn’t able tomake a voice call. I am not sure if it is possible for Skype to use the microphone on my phone to send audio to Skype.
Continue Reading August 4th, 2008
Sometimes little enhancements make your life easier. One such example is in Windows Vista. Unlike previous Windows operating systems, Vista allows you to add two time zones to the taskbar. This little feature is useful if you travel or routinely deal with someone in another time zone.
Continue Reading August 3rd, 2008
I am trying to figure out how to process a rss feed and have the publsh dates of the items change to “now”. I know that I can use magpierss to do this, but I wanted to see if I can do this in Yahoo Pipes.
I created this pipe, which should do what I want, and it looks like it is working in the debugger. But, when you look at the resulting rss output, the publish date of the items aren’t changed.
Continue Reading July 29th, 2008
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