links for 2007-12-17
Posted on December 18, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: R3, by Dennis Danvers
Once we’re aloft, everyone falls silent, caught up in the wonder of it. We all love to fly. To grow up only dreaming about it, as every kid does, and then as adults, living in cages, actually getting to do it? To soar, to dive, to bank, to hover—to [...]
links for 2007-12-10
Posted on December 11, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Tip: Prompt magic
Why stick with the standard boring shell prompt when you can easily make it colorful and more informative? In this tip, Daniel Robbins will show you how to get your shell prompt just the way you like it, as well as how to dynamically update your X termina
(tags: bash linux shell prompt howto [...]
links for 2007-12-03
Posted on December 4, 2007 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: The You Train, by N.K. Jemisin
Hey, girl. Yeah, I know; I’m sorry. Just haven’t been feeling all that social lately. How are you? That’s good, that’s good. How’s the little mister? Oh, that’s hilarious. That boy’s a mess. Me? Well, you know.
(tags: fiction sf free * *toconvert)
Read More..>>Adobe Flash Crashing Mozilla Firefox in Linux
Posted on December 1, 2007 - Filed Under crash, firefox, fix, flash, linux | Leave a Comment
If you are having trouble with Flash crashing Firefox under Linux (Ubuntu in my case), you may want to try deleting (or rename) the $HOME/.macromedia folder. It worked for me.
The crashing in question wasn’t happening most of the time, but it was preventing my from using the Potlatch editor for openstreetmap.org.
A little detail on how [...]