These things really are. I mean, right now I’m posting to the blog directly from it…in the downloadable WordPress application!

Hopefully soon I can come up with an iPhone app of my own to develop.

Found a good article discussing how to keep Ubuntu lean and mean.

Once in a while, you may want to do some maintenance on your Ubuntu machine and clean up unnecessary files that are chunking up large storage space in your hard disk. Here are 8 ways that you can use to clean up your Ubuntu…

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It’s been a while since I blew a whole lot of cash on computer hardware.  I have to admit that I like to do a lot of research before whole-heartedly jumping into such a purchase.  In addition to that, there must be some cash to be had just so such an exchange can happen.Well, for the past year or so, I’ve been quietly squirreling some money away so that one day I could make such a purchase.  This past Friday was the day or reckoning for my money as I purchased a brand new MacBook Pro 15″.  This thing, quite frankly, is a work of art.  It’s solid and perfect!  I haven’t found a flaw with anything yet. See, that’s why I keep coming back to Apple.  Every once in a while they stumble…but give them some time and they’ll turn out a great product.   

Recently I came into a situation where my windows (in any application) would draw black on their insides. The mouse would still change in reaction to buttons, etc. But my eyes wouldn’t see anything.

If you are having an issue with this, I found a solution courtesy of http://www.futuredesktop.com/.  This has been pulled verbatim from here.

If you have NVIDIA’s graphic card and you get black application windows when running Compiz on Ubuntu 7.10, this may (may) help you.

Take a backup copy of /usr/bin/compiz file.
$ sudo cp /usr/bin/compiz /usr/bin/compiz.old

Then edit it (it’s a shell script).
$ sudo gedit /usr/bin/compiz

And change the line
COMPIZ_OPTIONS=”–ignore-desktop-hints –replace”
to
COMPIZ_OPTIONS=”–ignore-desktop-hints –replace –indirect-rendering”

You can simply run this command to do the change.
$ sudo sed -i ‘s/COMPIZ_OPTIONS=”–ignore-desktop-hints –replace”/COMPIZ_OPTIONS=”–ignore-desktop-hints –replace –indirect-rendering”/’ /usr/bin/compiz

Then restart the X by pressing CNTR + ALT + BACKSPACE keys.

I’ve been using my current setup for about 6 years without any issues. Knock on wood.  I decided it was time to start to upgrade the beast…lets start with the most crucial part to any computer…the ability to see it.

Here’s the newest addition to my computer project. Dual 22″ Widescreen LCD’s. You may have noticed all the dell stuff there on the desktop…keyboard was free and the monitors are damn good! If anyone is wondering, that’s Ubuntu 7.10 running in the background.