CNET posted a HOWTO video on how to enable a much broader Control Panel setup by creating a folder with a specific filename. If you want to skip the video, here are the instructions: create a folder in the root level of any drive (C:, D:) call the new folder “GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}” open that folder enjoy
quick and simple: edit /etc/hosts (or on Windows machines: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) add the following lines: 0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com facebook.com apps.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 www.myspace.com myspace.com 0.0.0.0 www.digg.com digg.com etc. Add as many sites as you want. When you want to stop being productive at work, simply comment out those lines (like during a lunch break) with a # hash character, save the file. Just be sure to uncomment the lines when you need to be productive again…
I used to do web development. I still do, but I used to, too. I’ve been pleased to have helped out over at http://mitchhedberg.net/ in the past, with some phpBB programming to keep spammers out of the memorial forums for the late Mitch Hedberg, by far my most favorite comedian ever. Lynn Shawcroft, Mitch’s wife, contacted me about a week ago, asking if I could help redesign the whole web site into something classier and and easier to manage.
Disclosure: I was an employee at The Rubicon Project for almost two years as a senior engineer working on core statistics and analytics data, including when I originally wrote this blog piece. <u>I was not asked or compensated to write this review.</u> I bought my stock options upon resigning and so was a shareholder for a time but sold my stake in the company after their IPO. Despite being an employee, I used the *exact* same interface that any other person uses when they sign up, and I pay Rubicon the same 10% of the managed advertising they bring to my site.
After a lot of digging and some tweaking, I finally have Ubuntu playing nicely on my work laptop, so wanted to post my findings here in hopes it can help someone else. My video chipset: $ lspci | grep Graphics 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) The annoyance I faced was that plugging an external monitor into the laptop before powering it on forced the laptop/monitor to be a mirrored/clone display output, which is annoying.
I decided to sell my Neo1973. Commuting to the new job makes it tough to do any more development now that I’m giving up 3-4 hours a day sitting in a car. The eBay listing is at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120232014254 and more photos can be seen at (a page I no longer maintain at iandouglas.com, sorry) Auction closes March 20 2008 at 9:50am PST. Update, March 2017 Nine years later, and I might have found the Neo1973 in my basement.
Facebook allowed me to reconnect with a friend from high school named Lee-Ann, who is currently studying graphic design. Being the avid little RSS subscriber, I’ve been reading her blog for a while, and saw a post back in late November about some graphics work she wanted to make public. One of her assignments was to create some poster ideas, and her designs impressed me enough to hire her to my roster of graphic artists who I use for my various freelance projects.
A previous blog engine I used to use, e107, created links like “http://iandouglas.com/page?3.0" (my old SpamAssassin trainer tutorial page) so I decided I should at least attempt to toss in a few mod_rewrite rules to even up the playing field so search engines and people with bookmarks could still get to the tutorial text which I’ve started adding to the new CMS. Trouble is, mod_rewrite doesn’t support something simple like:
The geekiest of my friends know that I’ve had a Neo1973 phone from FIC running OpenMoko for a few months now. Sadly, there have been numerous roadblocks that keep me from using my insomnia to develop some killer app for the phone. For starters, the development platform is a bit of a chore to set up. Hey, it’s a developer’s phone, I should just bite the bullet and get it rolling.
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