Ubuntu’s partition editor, GParted, usually scans all the hard drives when it starts. However, in some cases, it will get stuck on this “Scanning all devices” step indefinitely. By knowing what hard drive you want to edit, you can launch GParted specifically for that hard drive. Either go into run or a terminal, and run […]

You want the cool sidebar and instant search features of Windows Vista, but you don’t want to put your computer through surgery to upgrade the OS? Just install Google Desktop.  It’s that easy.  Google Desktop has its own sidebar that closely resembles Vista’s sidebar, and will index your files and do find-as-you-type searching. I installed […]

CAD file formats are a mess. I’m trying to get a part made in Autodesk Inventor into Mastercam. IGES is borked. Half the surfaces don’t come in. SAT has a version mismatch or something, and it refuses to import. I don’t have a license for STEP import, apparently, and STL (even if it isn’t NURBS) […]

Today, my friend told me about this amazing new Internet filter. He went to a meeting at the city hall, where it was being demonstrated to the government. Apparently, the police gave it the thumbs up and recommended it for the schools. On a news story, it said that it was made by a Purdue […]

I got a new laptop (see previous post) with an AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-50, with a clock speed of 1.66 GHz per core. Earlier, I got a new CPU to replace the broken one in a desktop computer. That one is an Intel Celeron 331, with a clock speed of 2.66 GHz. I […]

This seems to be a huge issue the big companies “get” and the little companies neglect.  When designing software, make a good interface.  So many times, a piece of software can’t rise up into the big leagues because the interface is horrendous.  The workflow in a program should be efficient, intuitive, and simple. Case 1: […]

Found on Slashdot: “Psssst…. want some Open Office?” “I don’t know. My dad says to stay with Microsoft Office” “Come on! It’s free!” “But at school, they said that OpenOffice is a gateway program, and that I’ll soon be hitting the heavy stuff like Linux” “This ain’t linux! What’s wrong with just trying just a […]

I have the Lexmark P3120 AIO, and for the longest time I could never get it working in Linux. Well, I finally figured it out (printing only), when I saw that the P3150 was confirmed working and I was only 30 model numbers behind. I used the Z600 drivers for Linux that were provided by […]

This bug affects Autodesk VIZ 2007 (and possibly its older-sibling 3ds max 8 ) during registration when Internet Explorer 7 Beta is installed on the system. After Autodesk VIZ 2007 installs, the first time the user runs it it will complain that it cannot find a file in C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Temp\~RT65.tmp\. The file in […]

It seems that a lot of people are enjoying my “To Be” Verbs Analysis” program, and, well, some aren’t. Since only the school has Writer’s Workbench, people have trouble finding time to use it. Well, now they can do it at home. Mitchell pointed out that “It doesn’t work!” because it wasn’t picking up “wasn’t”, […]