Author Archives: Ben

Spam and CAPTCHA

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Ben

So after leaving this place for a month (probably more), I log in to find that there are over 6300 comments pending.  I have WordPress set up to automatically queue comments there that contain more than three hyperlinks, which tends … Continue reading →

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Fedora 13

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Ben

I’ve had a problem on Ubuntu for a while, or at least I thought it was Ubuntu-specific.  The problem is with suspend-to-ram (aka, what you get when you click suspend; the computer goes into a low-power state, and comes back … Continue reading →

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Oil

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Ben

Right now, there is a pipe sticking out of the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico, from which oil is billowing.  It is a huge environmental disaster, and most certainly a historical event if there ever was one.  But there … Continue reading →

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Humidity

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Ben

It’s getting pretty humid around here.  Need to get the air conditioner in here soon.

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Updates

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Ben

Hmm, haven’t posted here in a while. Well, nothing too noteworthy’s happened, I suppose. I’m taking a class, and working in between class days for some cash. It’s been going well for the most part, thought I do want to … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu: The Hanging Purple Splash Screen of Doom

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Ben

A couple weeks ago I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx.  (It’d previously been running Karmic.)  The upgrade went well.  Since this machine was not very critical to me for school, I had opted to do this one … Continue reading →

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Distributed Social Networking

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Ben

I remember when FaceBook was new.  A lot of people I know rushed to grab an account, and soon just about everyone I could think of had their page.  It was nice, I kept up with a ton of people … Continue reading →

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Earth Day

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Ben

Just posting while it’s still Earth Day.  I can’t say I’ve done anything special, but I did think more about my eventual plan to not pay an electric bill.  Well, as long as the sun shines… And at least it’s … Continue reading →

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OpenOffice

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Ben

Well, I hope everyone has been having a good April.  Here in Rochester it’s rainy right now, but it’s warmer out, so that’s good.  It’s certainly nice to be out of winter. I don’t really have much in the way … Continue reading →

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Quick Ubuntu Tip: Not Enough Space Left to Update

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Ben

So just today I went to run updates on my Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) machine, only to get an error message stating that there was not enough space left.  Now, I saw this once before, and luckily the fix is pretty … Continue reading →

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