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Xvfb As A Service
sometimes it’s useful to run a a X app without a display to batch process something, but the app won’t run without an X server to connect to. That’s where X Virtual Frame Buffer Xvfb comes in. It’s everything an X server should be except actually displaying anything. It’s just missing one nicety, by default [...]
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Meat Popsicle Casing Update
Skin continues to calm down, used hibiclens this morning. Breakfast: eggs, sausage Lunch: yogurt, orange, white cheddar popcorn Dinner: cheese, Ham, green beans, gluten free mac & cheese, Klondike bar. Rash starting back this evening, on shoulders, armpits.
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Unprocessed Soilent Green Wrapper Update
steroids last night helping some. Breakfast: gluten-free english muffin, butter, peanut butter Lunch: Taco Salad from work cafeteria after eating it thought I should have checked the dressing, but I think it was Ken’s which should be ok… Dinner: Brinner! bacon, sausage, gluten free pancakes.. nom.
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State of The Meat Covering
Skin: rashes on forearms, inner elbows, behind ears. Flakey itchy patch on left middle and ring fingers Topical applications: in AM, washed with Dr. Bronner’s magic soap. In PM applied Vanos (synthetic steroid cream) to worst rash sites. Breakfast: wrapless breakfast burrito over potatoes, chocolate milk Lunch: vanilla dannon Greek yogurt, banana, peanuts Dinner: Burger [...]
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It Puts The Lotion On Its Skin
For close to two years now I’ve had off and on flare ups of eczema. From my GP to a Dermatologist to an Allergist treatment has gone from antifungals (no change), antibiotics (a little better?), topical steroids and moisturizers (calms things down, but is not a long term solution, also greasy), to changes in my [...]
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Stop Motion Video on Linux
I needed to make a cutesy video to give a quick overview of the products the startup I’m working with wants to make. Here is how I accomplished this on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install luciole luciole is an interesting project written for a french animation festival (you’ll want to run those links through google translate, [...]
Tags: animation, linux, stopmotion, video
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blog hacked
so, the blog was hacked, I think they got in via an outdated instance of gallery which I had migrated to flickr but hadn’t cleaned up. I think we’re all better now, but let me know if see something out of place.
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Installing 32-bit Citrix Reciever on 64-bit Ubuntu
I recently picked up an HP Mini 210-1041nr laptop and painlessly installed Ubuntu 10.10 from USB. I needed one more thing to make it usable for work: Citrix. Citrix kindly makes Debian packages available, but only 32-bit. I googled around and found some directions, but they seemed a bit overly complicated. Here is what I [...]
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Twitter Favorites for 04/26/10
I found the following things interesting on twitter recently ThatKevinSmith: Thing is, we never asked anybody at Skywalker if we COULD marry there; only wedding ever held on the property had been for a George’s niece.
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Twitter Favorites for 02/10/10
I found the following things interesting on twitter recently icelander: We need to get Lancaster in on Google’s gigabit fiber experiment. Nominate us and get city officials to sign up. http://is.gd/86EC1
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