Monthly Archives: May 2011

CoffeeScript is a simple, clean, fast language which compiles to JavaScript, either at build time, with a caching framework plugin on the server, or at runtime in the browser. The syntax looks like a cross between Python and Haskell1 and, … Continue reading →

So there I was, waiting for some nVidia drivers to compile so I could get back into X11, flipping through images in fbi, when I realized I was sick and tired of fragile, irritating, one-liners to pipe lists of images … Continue reading →

For anyone who, like me, uses a variety of applications on Wine, it soon becomes obvious that Wine seems to trust Windows applications a little too much. Little or no support for automatically removing .desktop files created by a Windows … Continue reading →

Just a little gag module to implement “import creeper” [1] [2]. Now you know what I do when I’ve got a moment with nothing better to do. 😛

Ever had that one application you found too useful to replace, but it looked like a refugee from 1989? Chances are the application is written using either Motif or Tk and, while I can’t help you poor souls with in-house … Continue reading →

Just finished fixing some “unmet dependencies” that had removed some programs on my mother’s computer. Interestingly, it wasn’t corruption like the Google results suspected. Well… not on our end. I ended up finding an interesting solution. Install aptitude. Instead of … Continue reading →