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Cleaning up a lot of my social network sites

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Published on: August 10, 2012

Well I have started to clean up my LinkedIn account might take a few days, deleted a bunch of “contacts” in there, last night I cleaned up my Delicious account. Going to try go get all the social network stuff I have going organized correctly. Also I am not going to be one of those[…]

Some updating of my site and others

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Published on: August 10, 2012

Not much, the “biggest” part of the update is linking to my FB profile, my G+ profile, and linking in my tweets from Twitter. Also I dug up my old Delicious account and cleaned up the links in it a bit, going to start using it again. Next on my task list for internet todo[…]

Remember When

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Published on: August 10, 2012

Remember when blogs were the thing (kind of funny to ask that on a blog) well I have moved my RSS reading from a program to Google Reader so I can not only read it on my computer but also I installed the Google Reader on my Android Phone so I can keep up with[…]

Roku 3

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Published on: August 9, 2012

Well it has been over a month now since I ditched Direct TV in favor of the cheaper Ruko. I am enjoying it, plus the savings of $80 a month is nice, I have had to put a block on my cell phone against their “customer retention” number as they are calling 10 times a[…]

Banning IP addresses from my site

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Published on: August 9, 2012

I check my spam filter (for my blog) every few days, I will look at the IP address if I see a common thread (such as 95.65.32.x today) I just straight out ban the whole region, my largest group ban was banning 112.111.x.x I am not worried about preventing people (that can read my site)[…]

Linux Email Clients

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Published on: August 8, 2012

Any one know of a good Linux email client that will DELETE not just mark for deletion email when it deletes? the mail client evolution does not do this, so when I check my email on my cell phone I see all the spam I had deleted because evolution FAILS at deleting. So I need[…]

FVWM

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Published on: August 5, 2012

I know it “old” but I still think it one of the nicer windows managers out there for X-windows and as of today I am back using it. What is nice about it is that it is light and does not take many system resources. I really do not like where Gnome and KDE are[…]

I am free of iTunes

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Published on: July 8, 2012

Years ago I got an iPod, and since then I been enslaved by iTunes. Well in the last year Apple has said that they are going to kill the iPod classic, and one of their executives has been quoted saying that the iPod had a good run but now it time to buy an iPhone.[…]

Roku 2

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Published on: July 4, 2012

Well it is day 5 with the Roku device, and I been working with it. In my last post I noted that the 2 shows I wanted that I could not find on Roku are The Simpsons and Regular Show. The second one I have found on Amazon’s Streaming Video service, so now the only[…]

Roku

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Published on: June 30, 2012

I don’t like paying so much for a TV subscription. I am thinking of ditching the TV subscription, so today I picked up a Roku 2 XD. I also got a NetFlix account, and added a bunch of TV series. So far there are only 2 shows that are currently on that they don’t have[…]

A strange post/request

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Published on: June 26, 2012

This is going to be a strange request and I doubt I will get any one that can help. But back between 97 and 01 around the University of Pittsburgh’s CAS computer network on the Unix stations there was a FVWM configuration setup that was being shared. And I am trying to find those configuration[…]

Check your DNS lookup

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Published on: April 29, 2012

Just because this is something that should get out there, a while back some hackers broke into peoples computer and did some DNS look up changes to victoms computers. See http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911 for info on how to check your computer. If you use IE you really need to check to make sure you are safe (I[…]

Facebook, No Internet Connection on Android

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Published on: April 18, 2012

I have suffered with this issue for 4 days now, where even with a active internet connection the facebook App for Android will report “no internet connection” I finally solved it, first this will require that you have your device rooted, and a copy of Titanium Backup (not sure if you need pro or not,[…]

Cliq update to 2.1 not switching between 3G and WiFi

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Published on: April 17, 2012

I have lived with this for over a year now, I went out to find the solution, and found one that worked for me, and I will post it here so others can find it. First connect to a WiFi spot, when it is unable to get data, reboot. Next leave the WiFi area, and[…]

Might be time to ditch mozilla for chrome

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Published on: March 23, 2012

Why do I say this, I updated my system to Flash 11, I have Mozilla 11, and it disabled the “out of date addon” I guess they hard coded some numbers, I am going to try to download older versions of flash to see if I can fix the problem if I can not, it[…]

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