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Reddit Hover Craft: My Google Chrome Extension

I wrote my first Google Chrome Extension, Reddit Hover Craft. This extension will popup images posted to Reddit.com in a jQuery pop window. This allows for a smoother Reddit browsing experience because you dont have to navigate away from Reddit to view all the pictures posted to imgur.com.

Google Analytic Statistics for One Year.

On August 25, 2009 I signed up and configure Google Analytics for this blog. At that time I only written a couple of pages but I was just curious who was coming to this site, from where, and what pages they though were interesting. On day one I got a whopping 2 visits and by [...]

Dell Outlet Price Error, I hope.

I received this email from the Dell Outlet this morning. Man have they jacked up the prices.

How To: Install KDE 4.5 in Ubuntu 10.04

Here is how it install KDE 4.5 in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx system. Step 1. Add the Kubuntu-ppa backports repository and then update the repository listing. $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv E4DFEC907DEDA4B8A670E8042836CB0A8AC93F7A gpg: requesting key 8AC93F7A from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com [...]

Motersho’s GeoIP Lookup

I got bored the other day and decided that I wanted a page that I could query via a bash script and it would tell me my public IP address. Yes I know there are plenty of site that have this but I wanted my own. Here is the lookup page: http://motersho.com/blog/index.php/geoip-lookup/ Well that idea [...]

Writing Traceroute in Python

Ksplice.com has put together a tutorial on how to write the traceroute/tracert application in Python in just 8 easy steps. This is a good introduction on how the traceroute application works and socket programming in Python. Here is the finished product but please read thier post to see all of the steps. #!/usr/bin/python import [...]

How To: Speed Up OpenOffice in Linux and Windows

Have you made the switch from Microsoft Office to Openoffice but are really annoyed with how long it takes to open even the smallest of documents? Well here is a quick hack that you can do to decrease the time that it takes for OpenOffice to launch. Step 1: Launch any Open Office application. In [...]

Evolution is Finally Useful

I have been using Evolution on and off for many years because of its ability to connect to Microsoft Exchange severs. But I typically will use it for a few weeks only to get pissed off because of random crashes or lockups and go back to using Outlook in a Virtual Machine. Even though Ubuntu 10.04 was released with [...]

pfSense Firewall

Over the past few months my company has been testing out a different firewall products to protect us from all you h4x0rs out there. Our old Watchguard Firebox is no longer supported so we needed to look elsewhere. We started by looking at a couple of commercial products and despite having a $5000 budget for a new [...]