Monthly Archives: July 2008

Needs more cow…say!

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

I stumbled across a wonderful program today: cowsay! It is just as cool as you would imagine: 1cowsay "Text" gives you an ASCII art cow saying your Text. I think I will use it as the welcome banner on all … Continue reading →

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Handy Network Utilities: nast, fping

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

I discovered a wonderful utility last night: nast. I wanted to scan my local network, just to see what devices were on it, what their addresses were, etc. I could ping my entire subnet, but what if I had a … Continue reading →

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Crashing Application Greeter

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

I was playing around with themes and the like in Hardy Heron recently, and I ended up selecting a new login screen. Apparently, something was wrong with the one I installed, however, since the next time I went to login, … Continue reading →

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Additional Tips for GNOME-Do

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

After having played with GNOME-Do (intro post here) for a few days, experiencing some pain and finding more fun things, I have some suggestions that may make your adoption of it smoother. Get to 0.5. 0.4 will likely be in … Continue reading →

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Killer App: GNOME-Do!

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Samuel Huckins

I started to doubt my beloved Ubuntu after a co-worker showed me the various virtues of Quicksilver on the Mac. But, I have… Beagle? Yuck. Lunchbox was cute, but never seemed to work right. But today, I take that doubt … Continue reading →

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