Category Archives: Coding

Set HTTP proxy (or anything else) with NetworkManager on Ubuntu

Posted on 5/10/2010 by Chris

I move around a lot with my laptop – home, church, Panera, airports – and hate having to make changes to various settings each time I connect to a different network. NetworkManager provides a facility to run scripts when an … Continue reading →

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4 Uses For My G1 Android Phone I hadn’t Planned On

Posted on 9/12/2009 by Chris

So, I took the plunge and got a T-Mobile GI phone with Googles Android operating system. I really like it – I am a big Google tools user, so it integrates well with what I am already doing day-to-day. I … Continue reading →

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timekpr Grows Up ( or “Why I Love Open Source” )

Posted on 9/28/2008 by Chris

Back in February, I had the need to limit the amount of time my kids spent on a shared Ubuntu box. I cobbled together a simple script that would give a warning then shutdown the user session. It worked for … Continue reading →

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Rails Tag Helper default values

Posted on 7/23/2008 by Chris

I was tooling through a form setting text_field sizes ( the default of :size => 30 is a bit big for me ) and my “cut-n-paste is bad” alarm when off. There had to be a better way to set … Continue reading →

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12 Step Program for Ubuntu Update-Manager Addicts

Posted on 4/19/2008 by Chris

Hi, my name is Chris. I am Ubuntu update-manager addict. I began innocently enough, sometime back in Febuary, I ran ‘update-manager -d‘ to get a peek at Unbuntu Hardy Heron. Since that time I have been unable to resist the … Continue reading →

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