My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun.

I had considered trying to run multiple applications simultaneously on the 512K Mac, but I was stymied by low memory conflicts and other potential gotchas. But now, as I observed Memory Shift in action on John's PC, I suddenly saw a simple way to do it, w

Instantly, I guessed that something was amiss. This was confirmed when in response to `ls /etc` I got `ls: not found`.

To fix "X logo" instead of KDE-configured screensaver, add to /home/user/.kde/share/kdesktoprc after

screensaver section: DPMS-dependent=false

After finding that there are now python wrappers for GtkMozEmbed, I made my own screenshotter-and-thumbnailer by embedding the Mozilla browser component using a little python script.

Ordinarily, running a CJK application in Wine results in lots of garbled text. On a good day, you will get empty boxes. On a bad day, it looks like the ASCII table exploded. No more. I put together a little shell script called WineLocale (after Microsoft'

sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems.

Yesterday, while still anxiously awaiting for new MacBook Pro (which are now rumored for either the 5th or 12th), I built a hackintosh with Leopard. How? I will show you.

vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it.

nLite is a tool for permanent Windows components removal and pre-installation Windows configuration. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines.