Squirrel Hacker

Putting the minimize and maximize options back in Gnome 3

SeanJA — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:00:19 +0000

You need gnome tweak tool (apparently):

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

Then open up “Advanced Settings”. On the left, pick “Shell”, then for “Arrangement of buttons on the sidebar” pick the option you prefer (I like “All”).

Fix Gnome 3 Auto Complete Crash

SeanJA — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:55:09 +0000

Gnome 3 (running on Ubuntu, with the latest nvidia drivers from nvidia’s ppa) shell kept crashing on me when I was typing in the Activities “Search Box”, after some digging, the problem seems to be the recently-used list. If there is anything in it, it crashes things apparently. This seems to work:

echo "" > ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

then, to stop it from ever writing to that file ever again:

sudo chattr +i ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

Problem solved

Privacy Policy

SeanJA — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:32:17 +0000

Still, it has to be better than Apples.

Privacy Policy

We firmly believe that privacy is unimportant and meaningless to you. If it were not, you probably would not have a Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn account: and you certainly wouldn’t ever use a search engine like Google. If you’re one of those tin-foil-hat crazies that actually cares about privacy: stop using our services and get a life.

We agree with Mark Zuckerberg when he pithily opined “The age of Privacy is Over.”

Our privacy policy is a reflection of this conviction. Therefore, to satisfy the absurd privacy requirements of various legal entities (and so you understand exactly where you stand with us) we are pleased to present our privacy policy:

1. We are the company that cares about your privacy. Specifically, while most other companies are concerned with protecting your privacy, we care about profiteering and violating it when expedient or useful.

2. You may think of using any of our programs or services as the privacy equivalent of living in a webcam fitted glass house under the unblinking eye of Big Brother: you have no privacy with us. If we can use any of your details to legally make a profit, we probably will.

3. We will track and log everything we can about all the dirty (and clean) things you do and like with cookies, GPS, secure connections and or whatever technology exists today or becomes available at any time in the future.

4. By using any of our services, you grant us permission to surgically implant a tracking microchip of our choosing in your body and sell all collected information to the highest bidder . . . and to all other bidders. You also agree to regular updates and reinstalls of said device entirely at our discretion for up to 50 years after the end of your natural life.

5. If the opportunity arises to sell or otherwise use this or any information, data or meta data about you or your world, we will jump at that opportunity like a pitbull on a fresh steak

6. Please email us to tell us some of your secrets. We may, at our sole discretion (or lack thereof), broadcast, reveal, sell, manipulate, or otherwise use these secrets, or any information we collect to our benefit whenever, wherever, and however we choose.

7. We are right now looking at you through your webcam. Do you always move your lips like that when you read? We also recorded what you were doing last week and are sending the video to (you know who). If the prior statements are not true, it’s because in addition to everything else, we reserve the right to lie to you, and you agree to believe us and hold us harmless for any and all such lies. Furthermore, if we are not recording everything you’re doing through your webcam, it’s either because we haven’t figured out how, you’re just not that interesting, or both.

8. We are serious about all of the above. So don’t go trying to sue us later with some nonsense like “I thought that was all satire.” All your privacy are belong to us. We mean it.

9. Cookies: We like chocolate chip cookies. You agree to furnish any employee or associate of our company with fresh chocolate chip cookies upon request. That’s the price of using our programs and or services (in addition to any other price we come up with).

10. Spam. You agree that nothing we do with the access and information you grant to us shall be called Spam: even if it is. We prefer the term “bacon”, because . .. mmmmmmmm bacon.

via: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/screenshot-pimp-screengrab-scr/privacy/

A karate dog with a karate bone

SeanJA — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:38:38 +0000

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Like a hammer hits a cantelope

SeanJA — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:29:19 +0000

Zlad – I Am The Anti-Pope

The complicated and into the room

Decided to make sense

The struggles of the woman divorce was unanimous

The senate and house

Whatsoever

Selfselection in our lives

The city’s was that they had gone mad

Now this week

Haven’t so long

Just loves it

Susan

Lagged visit

Subtlety successfully styling salons

Post soviet also

You is one of one

Piecemeal

Fans might be interested

He’ll look for substance

He stated he soon

These organizations

Balances

These drugs

The

Lina this

Haemophilus it distrust

Communists

The family is really only

Dot business

Everyone’s

Sults socotra

Six instead

Haha

Holes

Animated

Resentments

Forty years knows about that

Expenses

CCC

Christensen

Minimal

Settlements own lonely more money on water or two thousand civilians

Lyrics by Google Closed Captioning

links for 2009-01-14

Like a wizard!

SeanJA — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:05:54 +0000

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Mojito 2007-2012

SeanJA — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:00:36 +0000

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This will never cut pizza

SeanJA — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:21:16 +0000

My Star Trek Enterprise pizza cutter will never cut pizza, I have a pizza batleth for that already:

Unboxing:

I may do this with it though:

now where do I get a black background like that?

WOOSH!

Woosh!!

Happy Holidays

SeanJA — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:09:13 +0000

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17 “rm”s? Wonder what I’m hiding…

SeanJA — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:11:40 +0000

seanja@deepthought:~$ history | awk {'print $2'} | sort | uniq -c | sort -k1 -rn |

    204 svn
    138 cd
    125 ssh
    116 sudo
     95 ls
     63 ll
     37 exit
     20 nano
     17 rm
     17 convert