Twitter is pretty weird, I follow a few people… people that I actually want to hear from or that mention things that interest me. For me Twitter isn’t a marketing tool or anything like that because at the moment I don’t have anything to really promote, for example? I hardly ever mention this site on Twitter because I’m not trying to drive tons of traffic to it. For me Twitter is a way to “catch up” with other people and find out what they’re reading, thinking about or doing.
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Transformers 2 – Revenge of the Fallen
Last night Claire, myself and a few friends went to watch the new Transformers movie, Transformers – Revenge of the Fallen. We both enjoyed the movie and Claire said she liked it more than the first, and this coming from a girl who’s not a fan of “scifi” movies or anything that she thinks is un-realistic.
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Sunset (From the office) 01/07/2009
Sunset (From the office) 01/07/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
Another Sunset photo, this time taken as I left the office. Our offices are in the Pinelands Business Park in Pinelands, Cape Town. I really love the colours, we’ve been getting some awesome sunsets lately.
Now if I can remember to take my phone along I’ll get a photo of a sunrise in the mornings when I go walking.
Sunset
Sunset – 30/06/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
A beautiful picture I took with my cell phone of the sun setting, love all the colours. Was taken outside our flat in the street, inside the complex, in Pinelands, Cape Town.
Windows Console Replacement
I spend a lot of time at the command line in both windows and Linux, I guess I feel more at home or perhaps more in control. On Linux I have Gnome-Terminal which is a perfectly adequate container for a command line. On windows though I only have the standard cmd.exe which is seriously annoying, you can’t have things like tabs etc.
Over the weekend I went in search of a replacement, something that more closely resembles gnome-terminal and I found console2, and so far I found it perfect. I’m not hardcore enough to install one of the many ports of bash to my windows machine and I haven’t tried power shell yet, it?s not so much script ability that I need as much as the ability to run my command line apps from a nicer looking window and consolidate all of them into one window.
Breakfast – That tastes bad with Toothpaste
Breakfast – 24/06/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
Someone suggested I keep track of things that taste bad with toothpaste, in case you’re wondering its a really long list. But this morning I tried one of my favourite yoghurt’s a pear one from Woolworths.
Unfortunately, as I’m sure you’ve guessed by the title, it doesn’t taste that good straight after brushing your teeth, it may be up there with things like Orange Juice.
Bookmark All addon for Firefox
I use Firefox alot, its open all day and by the end of the day I normally have between 20 and 40 tabs open. Often I would like to bookmark the tabs, especially when doing research on stuff, so that I can come back to it later but its often not important that I bookmark it with any kind of description a date is normally more than enough.
Up to now I’ve normally just hit CTRL+SHIFT+D (Bookmark All Tabs) and type in today’s date, this had worked but it is a little cumbersome and sometimes I mis-type the date.
A few days ago I set out to find a plugin that does this or find the info needed to write one, after alot of searching I found a add-on that did exactly what I wanted.
Here is the Addon page on Mozilla.org, it’s called “Bookmark All” and allows you to add a button to your bar that basically bookmarks all the currently open tabs under a folder (that you select) with today’s date and time.
Low Hits
Noticed that even though I’ve been posting my “hits” are still a little low for some posts, then I remembered that my parents are away for a week and obviously this means my biggest fan (Hi Mom :-)) is not online.
Bad Weather – 23/06/2009
Bad Weather – 23/06/2009, originally uploaded by Dale Nunns.
Photo taken from our office’s in Pinelands, Cape Town. There is a terrible storm at the moment in Cape Town.
Get a Samsung SCX 4200 Working On Ubuntu 9.04
I have a Samsung SCX-4200 Printer/Scanner it works rather nicely and I like it alot, even though I don’t use it often. Tonight I plugged it into my Ubunut machine and it printed first time, with no setups. Unfortunately the scanner didn’t work.
A few quick search’s revealed this forum entry on the Ubuntu Forums and from there I found this site with .deb packages for the Samsung Unified MFP drivers. After installing the packages the scanner suddenly work in XSane and I could scan. I’m really like the fact that more and more hardware “just works” now in Linux, or works with minimal tweaking. I haven’t had to compile a kernel or any other software in a very long time.
After getting the scanner to work I found 2 nice apps to use instead of XSane, the first is flegita a nice little app that makes it easy to scan things from the scanner to png, jpg, tif and PDF and the other app is gscan2pdf which allows you to scan to pdf.