I see this all the time in the online linux press. It’s pretty funny, especially as no one has really managed to define what `year of linux’ or `year of the linux desktop’ actually means.
Here’s a new one for you: there will be no year of linux.
Yes, you heard it here at ThermionicEmissions first. No [...]
Download Index.dat Suite to help cover your browsing tracks. Or just because it’s nobody’s business where you’ve been. Unfortunately it’s Windows-only but every tip is still a tip.
Vertor is a new site that aims to help you find torrents that are free of fakes and malware. Sound interesting? Read on…
Governor Kulongowski of Oregon (makes one [...]
If you’re new to ThermionicEmissions, you may not have seen the Online Utilities page.
This page is my listing of useful sites I came across on my web outings. I try to keep it current. If there’s a search engine or utility that may be of interest, I link it on the Online Utilities page.
There are [...]
Well, it’s the end of the year (2008, as best I can figure) and time for all of the online info purveyors to put up their horrid lists of the best, worst, biggest, free, and most controversial. As if that weren’t enough, there’s the resolutions…
LEFTYSTRAT RESOLUTIONS
I hereby resolve not to make any resolutions
I will try [...]
I use my USB sticks for a variety of things, most notably a temporary backup of important files from various PCs. One day I had a spectacular USB stick failure and lost my backups. Ever since then I thought it was a good idea to back up the backups.
There are a number of ways to [...]
Science Daily, via Lifehacker, brings us confirmation of what I’ve been saying since I could speak: `Chocolate, Wine, and Tea Improve Cognitive Performance.’ Ok, I just refer to chocolate as a religious sacrament (Church of Hendrix), but it’s great to see Science catching up with me for once.
You use text messaging, right? Even I use [...]
My Dell E4300 laptop has been running on Xubuntu 8.04 since I got it. Was hesitant to try 8.10 because it wasn’t proven (back when I started testing it on other machines).
One thing that *really* ticked me off was that the touchpad scrolling refused to function. Yes, it’s a small thing, but it’s important to [...]
Determined to make my holiday time off count (whatever that means), I resolved to do some amp wiring (or miswiring or Design by Fault or Unhappy Accident). I even posted my intention to two online groups, hoping that would cement my future actions via intent.
Because I announced my intent to the Universe (and the [...]
Little is said about the internet, yet it is a fact of everyday life. I suspect it came about so rapidly, relatively speaking, than most other technologies, and integrated itself into our daily activities at a speed that defied logic.
It started as ARPANET, a military experiment in keep networks up regardless of nodes being taken [...]
Or was that Appliantology?
Scientology refuseniks sue over compulsory workplace courses
Study it or you’re fired! Then hook yourself to this toaster…
Flash Gordon Surrenders
U.S. Homeland Security seeks to arm commercial airliners with antimissile lasers
That will keep those little bastards with the keychain lasers busy for a while…
Do as I Say, Not as I Do
Rice says only an [...]
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