Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow

Good News and Bad News

Posted on 2009-06-24 by Stephan Sokolow

The bad news is, my main site is down and I’m too busy to update my blog. The good news is, I’ve finally cooked up a tool which prevents me from procrastinating or getting distracted for days on end, so … Continue reading →

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More Programming Humor

Posted on 2008-12-17 by Stephan Sokolow

If programming languages were cars… If programming languages were religions… Just a couple more fun lists for people who enjoyed If Version Control Systems Were Airlines and Some more geek humor. UPDATE: If PCs were toasters

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Getting The Selected Text as HTML Using Javascript

Posted on 2008-12-03 by Stephan Sokolow

I’m not really on top of my time management yet, but this was hard enough to find that I think it warrants a blog post anyway… Have you ever tried looking up how to use Javascript to get the selected … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Elitist Bastards

Posted on 2008-07-22 by Stephan Sokolow

Introducing the Carnival of Elitist Bastards @ Café Philos Probably best to read the link above, since I definitely don’t have time to write something anywhere near as good, but in short, it’s an introduction to Dana Hunter’s Carnival of … Continue reading →

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The Trick To Linux Speakerphone-building

Posted on 2008-07-05 by Stephan Sokolow

Ever wanted to use a VoIP client to answer phone calls over your traditional phone line instead of getting VoIP service? (Surprisingly difficult since everyone seems to want to use their crappy old phones on VoIP instead) Well, here’s the … Continue reading →

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Various Geek Snippets

Posted on 2008-07-02 by Stephan Sokolow

I’ve been busy lately, but I can at least share a few noteworthy things I ran across. A faint background image in your terminal reduces eye-strain. (source) KDE users can use kioexec to pass URLs as command-line arguments to non-KDE … Continue reading →

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How to customize the layout of the “View Modes” sub-toolbar in Konqueror

Posted on 2008-06-28 by Stephan Sokolow

I’m not really in the mood for blogging right now, but this took me a lot of googling, so I should probably share it. Did you ever wonder what arcane incantations went into customizing that “ActionList: viewmode_toolbar” subsection in your … Continue reading →

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