michael favia

Want to have the handy custom keys om your XO actually control something in XFCE but think the HOWTO looks discouraging or less than entertaining. I've created an RPM that includes some simple scripts to let you control the screen brightness, screen orientation and volume of your XO with the buttons you expect should work. Please install the "noarch" rpm below to add the functionality listed above. Also provided the "src" rpm if youd lie to edit the spec file and change/improve the rpm.

The basic premise of twitter is simple. You update what you are doing and others "follow" you and decide how they want your stream of updates delivered. You may want to have close friends updates sent to your phone via text messages, and have other peoples updates only display on your twitter web page so you can check in ocassionally but not be bothered all the time. The point is, its up to you and can be changed anytime you like from your phone or on the web.

I finally bit the bullet and bought a new desk and chair for my "office". Milla sleeps under my desk while i work and she finally broke the support off of hre glass and steel desk i bought many years ago in St Louis. It served me well but i wanted something "warmer" for my next desk and my Office Depot Special chair has seen better days. I spend alot of time at this desk and i figured it was time to get something decent.

While linux is getting generally easier for anyone to use as a desktop replacement this operation required a little more fiddling than i would like. I'll record it here in case anyone has similar desires to use their cingular phone as a modem/personal area network device. This method lets you connect to the internet over thwe bluetooth link while charging the phone over the USB connection (if you care to connect it at all).

We made it to the best taping weve been to yet on monday night. More details later, just want to post these pics for Ryan.

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The Austinist is hosting another ACL pre-party this year and it promises to be a great time. This year it is held on Thursday at Mowhawk on 912 Red River. No cover, and doors open at 7pm. Live bands, great DJ's, special guests, and fire dancers are we missing anything?

Bands

• Loxsly
• IV Thieves
• Brothers and Sisters
• Til We're Blue Or Destroy
• Horse + Donkey

A couple of sub 100 degree days in a row and I'm seriously considering starting to run again. I just can't hack the Texas summer for any real running so I normally just play beach volleyball at zilker or something else to stave off all the chocolate I eat. If you pass me on Town Lake trail huffing along for the next few weeks say hello, though I doubt you'll get much of an audible response. To this end I was bored and decided to make a placeholder for my race results from a few past races. I'm probably going to make a Drupal module that stores all training and race information properly in the database so I can use it for statistical analysis and other geekery but just getting it all in one place will be nice. -mf

I think more people are coming around to the fact that the people and objects used in terroristic plots aren't the targets they are the weapons. The affected billions are the targets and we are losing the war. Bruce Schneier writes a compelling article for wired about the issue here.