I’ve been using fluxbox for quite some time now and I really like it. It is very light and since I run it on my server I want to keep the footprint as small as possible.
Problem is I fell in love with Gnome Do and rightfully so, as it has quite a bit of functionality. [...]

Revelation is a nice little python application that manages your passwords. I thought it would be a good application to use as most password managers are either too heavy or very ugly looking.
The only problem is that the official version of Revelation does not support notes for the password entries. So I decided to create [...]

For a while now I’ve been using backup2l for my automated backups, but there where a few things I didn’t like about it. First the fact that all the backups where compressed, which is fine when you are trying to save space but trying to restore something can be a pain. in backup2l’s defense it [...]

I just recently found a bunch of little video clips that I took with my little point and shoot Canon PowerShot camera. Most of them are really short, less than 5 minutes, and I wanted a quick and easy way to put these on DVD so I can send them to friends and family. So [...]

When I saw uwstopia’s post on Tango terminal I fell in love with the color scheme right away. Basically it follows the Tango Desktop Project color scheme with a few exceptions. Personally I spend so much time on the terminal that this scheme make it easier on the eyes. But there was one problem I [...]

I finally got Virtualbox running on my Debian box but I kept wanting to just start the virtual machine from my Fluxbox menu instead of running the GUI and selecting it from there.

I just noticed today that when I connect from my Mac OS X box to my Debian/Etch box via Samba it appears that every time I create a file it gets the owner of root. For example if I log on as jfrias I would expect files to be jfrias:jfrias when I create them but [...]

Sunny Walia has a great tip for Search and Replace in a linux box.

I love Mondo Rescue and at one point there was a Live CD that would boot your PC and you can then launch it from there. It was great for backing up Windows machines, but I tried searching for it and the Live CD is no where to be found. So I decided to roll [...]

I just noticed some strange symlink behavior with my Samba shares on my Debian box. Usually directory symlinks show up as folders on Mac OS X. But today I noticed that they started to show up as file aliases.