Category: Geekdom

MovableType/Blogging Link Dump

Wanted to get some of these MovableType and blogging links on here that I’ve collected before I forget about them:

OK, now I feel better getting a few of those bookmarked here.

For The Cramped Geek Desk

The Paperhub serves as an “inbox” paper tray as well as a Firewire and USB 2.0 hub. Via The Raw Feed.

Freesco Router

Another one for the bookmarks (quoting LangaList):

FREESCO (stands for FREE ciSCO) is a free replacement for commercial routers supporting up to 3 ethernet/arcnet/token_ring/arlan network cards and up to 2 modems. Why should you use Freesco? Ease of use – it’s insanely easy to set up Thoroughly documented – it’s more or less self contained, read one doc and you’re off and running Like most players in this field, it runs off one floppy Freesco runs in as little as 6 Mb RAM. Unique Web Control Panel Freesco is the easiest to use, one disk Linux system available.

What’s That Empty “Xerox” Folder?

If you’ve ever pecked around in the Program Files folder in Windows, you may have noticed an empty “Xerox” folder. Why is it there? Now you know. Thanks Neil for the link.

Top 11 Firefox Extensions

A great collection of extensions that I’d love to see available for Firefox including the GetOffYourLazyButtAndWalkToTheFrontDoorForPetesSake snail-mail sniffer and the ClassiqView 1.1 which simulates MSIE and breaks W3C compliance.

Things To Put On USB Pen Drive Before Visiting Parents

If you’re like me, you’re the geek in the family and in charge of keeping everybody’s machines up and running. Sadly, if you’re like me, you’ll be spending part of this holiday fixing said family’s computer. It sounds like it just needs to be cleaned up a bit, and I’ve got a USB Pen Drive, so I’ll be loading it with a bunch of the software that is listed here (most of it I already have, but some of them were ideas I didn’t think of). Thanks Neil for the link.

LazyWeb Request: Need Firefox 1.0 Help

Upgraded from Firefox .9 to 1.0 a couple days ago. After updating all my extensions and getting my skin up to date, things are running along nice and smooth.

But somebody out there has to be able to help me with this. When I used to click on external links (say a link in an e-mail message or a link in a document) it used to open a new Firefox window. Now it uses the same window, which I don’t want it to do because I’ll sometimes lose stuff I’m working on. Is there any way to make links coming from external sources open in a new window, or even a new tab?

How Does Your Network Rate?

Post your network diagram here, and have it rated. So far, as of this writing, these are the top large, small, and home networks.

WYSIWYG Editing for MovableType

The one gripe new users of MovableType have had is that it doesn’t have a WYSIWYG editor for post creation. I, personally, don’t mind not having one, as I compose all my stuff offline using SharpMT, and like working with code. But many folks like to have the WYSIWYG editor, and many other blogging solutions have it. Heck, Six Apart, the company that makes MT, recently implemented a fancy editor for it’s TypePad hosted blogging solution, so why it’s not a part of MT is beyond me.

Thankfully, MT 3.0 has made it a bit easier to implement a WYSIWYG editor, thanks to its CSS interfaces, and Movalog, an indespensible site for MT hackers, has a great tutorial on how you can implement HTMLArea into your backend. It’s still a bit complicated, and SixApart should really make this far easier to do (or just make it part of the main MT install), but at least you can have one, if you so desire. It’s now on my To-Do list (which I really need to edit/update).

Still Running Windows 98 or Older?

At least get your MS-DOS subsystem running MS-DOS 7.1. If you’re still running Windows 3.x, you really need the upgrade — just check out all these features versus DOS 6.x (which was Microsoft’s last official stand-alone DOS release — I’m pretty sure the DOS that comes with Windows 95 and higher is DOS 7.0).