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VinDSL replied to a thread HOWTO: VinDSL Conky Script in General Help

Heh! Looks good! :) Well, I'm finally going to have a couple of days to myself, this weekend -- no meetings (until Monday) -- no airport shuttle...

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22 Hours Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread Chromium Likely to Replace Firefox in Ubuntu +1

Dittos... I like to "test" things, so I use Chromium Canary 98% of the time. It has pages n' pages of experimental features (chrome://flags) to...

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22 Hours Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread Chromium Likely to Replace Firefox in Ubuntu +1

Opera? Hear! Hear!

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1 Day Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread HOWTO: VinDSL Conky Script in General Help

Interesting! I tried the example (above): 'Waxing.*:Waxing' And, the "Crescent" text finally disappeared. However... Now, a close brace...

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2 Days Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread Marvellous May Screenshot Thread in The Cafe

FakeBook... :D

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2 Days Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread HOWTO: VinDSL Conky Script in General Help

Will do... Thanks! :)

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2 Days Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread HOWTO: VinDSL Conky Script in General Help

I was having problems with Conky freezing, too, when running Rhythmbox in Raring (somewhere in the dev cycle). I *think* the RB client (which is...

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2 Days Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread HOWTO: VinDSL Conky Script in General Help

Another thing I've noticed... :) Showtime feature isn't truncating "Waxing Crescent" to "Waxing", in the moon phase text. All the other...

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4 Days Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread Linux 3.10 - rc1 in Ubuntu +1

Oh, drat! Now, the initial nVidia driver module is failing to build. Guess I'll need to play the video driver shell game -- looking for nVidia...

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4 Days Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread Linux 3.10 - rc1 in Ubuntu +1

Aye! That's more like it... I had was experiencing unmet dependencies, with the Precise build. Thanks! ;)

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5 Days Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread I'm Destroyed, totally, totally disappointed in this ver. in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

Same here... If the dual-boot machine is going to be infected with winders: Manually partition using GParted Install winders Hide the...

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5 Days Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread HOWTO: VinDSL Conky Script in General Help

Bwahahaha! First LoL_of_the_day! Looks like the TSA dude, that just patted me down. Everybody is looking at me like I'm crazy... Heh! I'm...

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5 Days Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread seeking advice on web hosting company in The Cafe

Sorry it took so long to reply! I'm on the trot, right now, going from airport_to_airport. Still several hours from home... I'm not sure where I...

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots in The Cafe

I'm sitting in a hotel shuttle in Vegas, right now. LoL! :D And, I'm using ConkyWX for my weather parser. Go to the HOWTO in my sig, for...

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots in The Cafe

Thanks, so much! I just went through airport security, and am sitting in a terminal lounge, waiting for my plane to arrive. Kind words mean a...

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread seeking advice on web hosting company in The Cafe

I don't know about your ISP, but... My ISP considers that an unauthorized redistribution of their bandwidth and services. And, they'll red-flag...

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread seeking advice on web hosting company in The Cafe

True! One of the many, many, ways 'they' get you is by limiting inodes to 100K (give_or_take) Read 'em & weep: ...

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread seeking advice on web hosting company in The Cafe

Well... I'll try to keep it short. I've been on the web, since the last century... and ran a BBS for years before that, before Al Gore invented...

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread New clutter-1.0 (1.14.0-1) breaks GDM and Gnome-shell (3.6.3) in Ubuntu +1

Really?!?!? You'll miss all the 'fun'... :)

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread New clutter-1.0 (1.14.0-1) breaks GDM and Gnome-shell (3.6.3) in Ubuntu +1

I don't run all that many extensions, but the ones I do run are paramount to my happiness/sanity. Without the correct mix of extensions, GS is a...

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread New clutter-1.0 (1.14.0-1) breaks GDM and Gnome-shell (3.6.3) in Ubuntu +1

I was concerned about how the multiple, new, clutter upgrades would affect GS 3.9.1 Synaptic wanted to remove gnome & gnome-core, which I had...

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread New clutter-1.0 (1.14.0-1) breaks GDM and Gnome-shell (3.6.3) in Ubuntu +1

Did you guys ever get this sorted?!?!? I finally did an upgrade, a few minutes ago, and everything seems to be working fine.

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread Marvellous May Screenshot Thread in The Cafe

Google Cloud just switched to Debian 6 & 7 (also CentOS, for those that want it). If you want a stable release... this headline says it all: :D ...

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread HOWTO: VinDSL Conky Script in General Help

No worries! I think it's a great feature -- unique, even! Kudos! I'll study the alerts, and adjust my script, as necessary... ;)

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread HOWTO: VinDSL Conky Script in General Help

Hrm... My alert says, "Tropical Weather: Tropical Cyclone Twentyfour (South Indian Ocean)" Heh! That's quite a few 'clicks' away from Arizona....

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread HOWTO: VinDSL Conky Script in General Help

Very nice, Paramvir! I'll need to come up with a sed to change the font size (or truncate the condition text) when alerts are present. :)

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread 3.9 is here... in Ubuntu +1

Hrm. Interesting! Probably unrelated, but... I lost all of my saved passwords, in Chromium Canary 28 -- wiped the slate clean :confused: ...

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread Marvellous May Screenshot Thread in The Cafe

Or, Stardock WindowBlinds LoL! :D

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1 Week Ago

VinDSL replied to a thread 3.9 is here... in Ubuntu +1

Just installed 3.9.1-saucy, again. SOURCE: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.9.1-saucy/ This time, I didn't take any chances...

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