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Tools for cleaning an infected Windows system

Lately I have come across stuff that owns Windows sytems via Firefox in some fashion. AVG was alone has been able to clean these systems up. I have found some tools that are effective. Dr Web CureIt is...

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Dynamic, lazy loading JavaScript packages

Many different solutions exist. JSLoad is a Javascript file loader that [they] wrote for Instructables. jspkg is a package loader for Javascript, based on pluggable loaders for locating and loading...

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Financial Crisis: Of Bailouts, Kleptocracy, and AIG

Several must read articles just from the past couple days. No Return to Normal Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than you think. James K. Galbraith. The Big Takeover. The global...

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What about Opera?

I can’t believe Farhad Manjoo wrote an entire article comparing every browser but Opera. He even comments on how much he loves the Firefox mouse gestures plugin, a feature that Opera pioneered. What a...

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Economic Crisis Reading, Money Supply and Capitalization

Steve Keen has a must read article, Steve Keen’s DebtWatch No 31 February 2009: “The Roving Cavaliers of Credit”, that turns the accepted relationship of money supply and the Fed on its head. Eugene...

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Deliciousness

Finally created a Delicious account. My open tabs now exceed practicality. I can’t work through enough projects simultaneously to hold my active tabs under 50. It’s crazy. Posting to Delicious, I am...

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Geany GTK based editor

After fighting with the latest version of Kate’s strange way of allowing you to configure the usage of tabs rather than spaces, I decided to give a Geany a try. Normally I steer clear of GTK...

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Just which decade is it?

I stumbled upon this hilarity from the PostgreSQL docs. The first century starts at 0001-01-01 00:00:00 AD, although they did not know it at the time. This definition applies to all Gregorian calendar...

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Three Invaluable PDF tools

While I’ve never been one to write top n things posts, there are three PDF tools I use routinely that are pretty awesome. The most generally applicable is PDF Creator, which lets you print to PDF on...

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Optical Media Backup Tools in Debian GNU/Linux

Today I happened across a couple of packages to test drive in the near future for photo backup, though neither are specifically tailored for said purpose: backupninja – lightweight, extensible...

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Epson lawsuit effecting generic ink cartridge supply

I’d been buying from abcink for ages, but recently — actually it seems last year — Epson was successful in stopping the manufacturers of many of the generic Epson compatible cartridges from importing...

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ExtJS and Observable

With ExtJS, any class you create can have access to the ExtJS event model by simplying extending Ext.util.Observable. But then how do you actually use events? High level overview of ExtJS events Custom...

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