Archive
- Thoughts and Prayers (March 15, 2019)
- Using LastPass in Pale Moon browser (February 20, 2019)
- Adding Redo to MicroEMACS (February 9, 2019)
- Ispell unable to open default.hash (November 23, 2018)
- Using an HP P1006 printer in Linux Mint 18 (November 8, 2018)
- Updating ThinkPad BIOS from Linux (September 28, 2018)
- Microsoft buys Github (July 26, 2018)
- Mailing labels in Linux (June 22, 2018)
- Cervantes on Criticism (June 13, 2018)
- Disable low toner error in Brother printer (April 24, 2018)
- Using the Coce book cover cache with Koha (April 15, 2018)
- Extending MicroEMACS with Ruby (April 15, 2018)
- Accursed Invention (April 11, 2018)
- Progress in California (March 23, 2018)
- Linux Mint 18.3 hang on ThinkPad T420i (March 22, 2018)
- Koha Configuration (March 4, 2018)
- Adding Undo and UTF-8 support to MicroEMACS (March 1, 2018)
- Mac OS Sierra and secd hogging CPU (February 15, 2018)
- Bloated Web Pages (February 1, 2018)
- Converting from Mandarin M3 to Koha (August 9, 2017)
- Infinite recursion in Rails associations (June 20, 2017)
- Unblock sound on resume in Linux Mint 18 (May 30, 2017)
- KVM on Linux Mint 18 (March 18, 2017)
- Pandoc on Linux Mint 18 (March 10, 2017)
- Emacs key bindings in Firefox on Linux Mint Mate or Cinnamon (March 4, 2017)
- VMware Workstation 11 on Linux Mint 18 (March 1, 2017)
- Bill and Me (January 22, 2017)
- Koha on Linode (January 18, 2017)
- Linux Mint on a 2008 Macbook (January 17, 2017)
- Linux as an Internet Kiosk (November 16, 2016)
- Housing Bubble 2.0 (July 6, 2016)
- Fixing disabled TrackPoint after Mint 13 update (May 4, 2016)
- Creating a resume using Pandoc (February 20, 2016)
- Fixing "send to" in Shotwell on Linux Mint Mate (February 15, 2016)
- Disabling multiple downloads in apt (February 6, 2016)
- Word processors considered harmful (part 2) (January 7, 2016)
- Fixing a dehydrator (December 31, 2015)
- Converting Gallery2 albums (December 30, 2015)
- Replacing Gallery2 with nanoc (December 28, 2015)
- Installing and using a new Ruby on Linux Mint 17 (December 15, 2015)
- Converting from Wordpress to nanoc (November 15, 2015)
- Creating business cards with Gimp and ImageMagick (August 29, 2015)
- Extracting text from image-only PDF files (May 7, 2015)
- Word processors considered harmful (part 1) (May 1, 2015)
- Google Maps is officially broken (April 29, 2015)
- Fixing Intel GPU crash on Linux Mint 17 (March 11, 2015)
- Using Linux with a weather station (October 27, 2014)
- Nexus One and Consumer Cellular (October 18, 2014)
- Using a Linux laptop as a router (October 14, 2014)
- Literally (September 16, 2014)
- Fixing a water-damaged cell phone (September 15, 2014)
- Leaving the walled gardens (August 1, 2014)
- Strategic alignment (July 18, 2014)
- House interior pictures (July 10, 2014)
- License plates and prime numbers (June 10, 2014)
- Fixing printing problems with HP Laserjet 3015 (May 12, 2014)
- Tools for housebuilding (March 5, 2014)
- Using integrated card reader in Linux Mint on ThinkPad T61 (February 21, 2014)
- Plumbing headaches (February 5, 2014)
- Radon mitigation (December 16, 2013)
- Kitchen and living room lighting (December 13, 2013)
- Electrical wiring (October 30, 2013)
- Making window sills (May 13, 2013)
- Applying polyurethane to the floors (May 13, 2013)
- Fixing high CPU usage in Linux Mint 13 on ThinkPad X200s (May 13, 2013)
- Fixing unresponsive wifi on ThinkPad X200s running Linux Mint 13 (April 19, 2013)
- Sanding the floors (April 3, 2013)
- Interior framing (February 7, 2013)
- The siding is done (mostly) (December 10, 2012)
- Race against winter (November 15, 2012)
- Using an "unauthorized" network card in a ThinkPad (October 26, 2012)
- First siding boards are up (October 25, 2012)
- Doors (October 23, 2012)
- Stain and siding (October 12, 2012)
- Roofing is done (October 10, 2012)
- Stairs, windows, and roofing (September 24, 2012)
- First stages of Roofing (August 30, 2012)
- One story rafter raising (August 19, 2012)
- Note about pictures (August 3, 2012)
- Sheathing (August 3, 2012)
- Rafters (July 23, 2012)
- Aligning the goal posts (July 23, 2012)
- Goal posts (July 6, 2012)
- Backfilling (June 25, 2012)
- Workflow (June 24, 2012)
- Decking (June 18, 2012)
- Nail gun (June 12, 2012)
- Making and installing beams (June 11, 2012)
- Trenches and pipes and septic tank (June 2, 2012)
- Sill plates and foundation mistakes (May 26, 2012)
- First wood delivery and tarp management (May 25, 2012)
- Foundation (May 18, 2012)
- FirstDay Cottage under way (May 11, 2012)
- Downloading / backing up Gmail messages by date range (August 18, 2011)
- Linux Mint / Ubuntu tweaks (April 27, 2011)
- Extracting a subset of pages from a PDF document (January 21, 2011)
- Reading non-DRM ebooks using the Amazon Kindle app for Android (June 30, 2010)
- Enabling fingerprint reader in Linux Mint 9 / Ubuntu 10.04 (June 8, 2010)
- Fixing Logitech (pwc) webcam hang in Linux Mint 9 / Ubuntu 10.04 (June 7, 2010)
- Sharing a VPN connection on Linux (June 2, 2010)
- Booting Linux Mint 9 from a USB key (May 30, 2010)
- Fixing HP printer plugin problem in Linux Mint 9 / Ubuntu 10.04 (May 29, 2010)
- Moving from Keyring on Palm to KeePass on Linux and Android (March 26, 2010)
- The impoverished state of Android Apps (March 25, 2010)
- Moving contacts from Palm OS to Android (March 23, 2010)
- Solving pilot-xfer sync problem on Ubuntu Jaunty / Linux Mint 7 (March 19, 2010)
- Replacing postfix and procmail with maildrop (March 16, 2010)
- Fixing "connection refused" error in fetchmail on Ubuntu Jaunty / Linux Mint 7 (March 15, 2010)
- The iPad is not a Kindle killer (February 4, 2010)
- Fixing the default shell in Ubuntu / Linux Mint (February 3, 2010)
- Improving fonts in Ubuntu/Linux Mint (December 30, 2009)
- Viewing sheet music on a Kindle 2 (October 24, 2009)
- Getting a refund on the Windows Tax (October 16, 2009)
- Automatic data loss on Windows (October 13, 2009)
- Bye bye Kindle (October 13, 2009)
- The Kindle and HTML links (October 8, 2009)
- The Kindle DX and PDF metadata (October 6, 2009)
- Using an Epson Perfection V30 scanner in Linux (October 4, 2009)
- Re-gluing hammer felts on a grand piano (September 3, 2009)
- Printing USPS Click-N-Ship labels in Firefox on Linux (June 11, 2009)
- Paper: a display technology for the future? (June 11, 2009)
- Fixing microphone input on ThinkPad R61 in Ubuntu / Linux Mint (May 2, 2009)
- Three Bad Designs (March 2, 2009)
- Upgrading from Rails 2.1 to 2.2 (February 25, 2009)
- Power-off fix for Linux Mint 6 / Ubuntu 8.10 (February 14, 2009)
- Fixing screen resolution in Linux Mint 6 / Ubuntu 8.10 (February 10, 2009)
- Batch resizing images in Linux Mint / Ubuntu (January 5, 2009)
- Human-sized software (November 20, 2008)
- Convert tabs to spaces in one line of Ruby (November 19, 2008)
- Creating an encrypted directory on Linux (October 25, 2008)
- Reviving an old ThinkPad with TinyMe 2008 (October 19, 2008)
- Using a Treo 700P as a USB modem on SLED (September 14, 2008)
- SLED SP2 (September 11, 2008)
- Treo 700p field test mode (May 24, 2008)
- Installing Rails on SLED (May 14, 2008)
- ThinkPad R61 and SLED (April 5, 2008)
- Printing to PDF from Firefox (March 4, 2008)
- Fixing jerky video in DVDs (March 1, 2008)
- Replacing a ThinkPad A30p system board (February 27, 2008)
- Free music formats (February 23, 2008)
- Fixing DVD audio sync problem in Kaffeine (February 16, 2008)
- ThinkPad Reliability (February 16, 2008)
- Seagate FreeAgent spindown fix (February 15, 2008)
- Why? (February 12, 2008)
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