Yes, I am blaming this one on the great Mark Shuttleworth! “The $20 million ride will make him the 450th person to enter orbit and by his own admission “the first nerd in space”. He is now making final preparations in a quarantine unit at Baikonur Cosmodrome. Simonyi is set to return on April 20th, […]
Author Archives: Rich Johnson
Windows update
OK, a couple posts down I made light of the Windows vulnerability that is aimed at the animated cursors was fixed just a few hours after my post. Well so we thought. It seems the fix broke Windows XP SP2 systems. If you have Realtek HD Audio then you stand a good chance of not […]
Dictionary on the desktop
I have been using an application for years now and it has become one that I cannot live without. The application is KDict, the KDE client for the DICT protocol. It allows you to search through dictionary databases for a single word or a phrase, and then provides you with a list of definitions. Another […]
