You were right Evan, I was lost but now I’m found:
http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/
HUGE improvement on the beautiful Python interpreter. Tab completion! Bash commands! Yes!
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iPython is super sweet!
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Something is wrong with my blog
It keeps deleting posts. I’ll figure it out tomorrow.
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Ubuntu Jaunty headphone sound fix
I was getting no sound on my headphones or external speakers on my MacBook 2-1 until I found this post:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/201957
Follow these steps by Polera:
1. Right click on volume control.
2. Click ‘Open Volume Control’
3. Go to Edit –> Preferences
4. Check off ‘Surround Sound’
5. Close Preferences
6. Un-mute ‘Surround Sound’
7. Plug [...]
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Ubuntu Features I Heart
I’m working mostly in Ubuntu now a days, and its been a joy since I discovered (read: desperately scoured the earth for) these fantastic applications that give me all the workflow magic I take for granted in OSX.
GNOME Do
A very fast and extensible launcher that does all the stuff I use Quicksilver for in OSX. [...]
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Emoticons are *gulp* useful
Hard to admit because they’re so cheesey, but emoticons are useful. Ever want to say something pithy in an email without sounding curt? Emoticon smiley to the rescue!
See, its really easy to mistake someone’s tone in an email, particularly a short one. So save a couple of exclamations points
(I feel dirty for some [...]
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I don’t want to hear your music
Dear modern people of the information age
I do not want to hear your music. Not on your ringtone, not on your voicemail message, not on your website and especially not in place of your ringer when I call you. It does not make me think you’re clever, I am not impressed buy your taste. It [...]
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Just sign the waiver
I just completed adding all of my posts from my previous blog at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com to this blog. I haven’t even read all of my original posts but I can tell you that there are some factual errors and naivete that I am not taking responsibility for. Use at your own risk, there is [...]
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FTOB: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
Originally posted on 3/29/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/
I always feel a mixture of excitement and dread when I start a new technical book. I’m about to dive into the intimidatingly thick JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan. Javascript guru Douglas Crockford mentioned in his wonderful series of lectures that it was the best (or [...]
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FTOB: Blogging in the heat of the moment
Originally posted on 3/27/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/
This was originally a reply to liverbones’ comment of my last post, but it became long so I gave it a home of its own.
Just about every day I run across some design or technical problem that I can only solve through blogs or message boards. Its an amazing resource, [...]
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FTOB: MillhollandCycles.com
Originally posted on 3/26/2008 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/
This is a progress report on MilhollandCycles.com, website I am building for my brother Greg, who builds bicycles in our house in Portland. His bikes are great. He built me the coolest fillet braised mountain bike that languishes in the basement while I try to save enough cash [...]
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