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Archives for May, 2007

Citrix connection under Linux

So, a few things about using Citrix under Ubuntu (7.04): Don’t use the client linked from your Citrix login page, it’s probably version 7 but the latest is version 10. Go here, instead You will need Open Motif. Use synaptic to search for ‘motif’. Install limbotif3, libmotif-dev, and motifnls You may need to set up [...]

New Wallpaper

Sized 2560×1024 for dual-monitor setups. Feel free to crop them as you see fit First, the regular one: Second, the one for the Next Generation fans

BTW: Flickr uploadr

For you Linux users: the Windows XP/2000 Flickr upload tool runs under (the latest) Wine reliably and well. Only wrinkle is there doesn’t seem to be drag and drop.. that may just be a setting I need to change, however.

Rails and Harry Potter

(Amused by my own cleverness) Me: I want the ability to observe several forms with a single observe call Me: er, several form fields Me: will you patch rails for me? Coworker: umm Coworker: no Coworker: can’t you just make a method that takes an array and creates an observer for each? Me: I could [...]

More good music

(update: just found that you can listen to/download tracks at last.fm from them here) My friend, Alec, got me into Coheed and Cambria and their music. I have been listening to it pretty incessantly over the past week and a half (as my last.fm account will attest.) I really enoy them a lot — all [...]

TMNT 2 Rap Video

How well do you suppose Robert Van Winkle sleeps at night? For the record, this was the height of cool when I was in 6th grade or so.

Random Thought

Combination locks would be so much more effective if they incorporated polynomial equations, or perhaps imaginary numbers.