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Wonk — When you have to KNOW
A little while ago I was watching an episode of Covert Affairs and it used the term `Wonk'. I had heard the term "Policy Wonk" before in relation to someone employed as a political adviser that had a vast general knowledge of just about everything related to politics...
Adobe Acrobat Reader without using The Adobe Download Manager
The latest version of Acrobat Reader has some pretty good security restrictions so an upgrade is a good idea. However if you work on a network which has 512kbps internet connection you don't want to be running Adobe's Down Load Manager 30 times and sucking the files...
Alcatel OmniPCX Voice Prompts
Just had to upload voice prompts to an Alcatel OmniPCX. The process: Record the message using the "Sound Recorder" on Windows 7 (which saves to WMA format and it's got a high sample rate and it got 2 channels etc) Upload to a Ubuntu 10.10 Linux box and use ffmpeg to...
How Old School Linux are You?
Remember the Registered Linux User Counter: LOL.
WordPress for Android Video Upload
This link http://android.wordpress.org/2010/05/11/wordpress-for-android-version-1-2-geotagging-and-video-upload/ has the secret sauce for uploading 3gp videos to a wordpress blog namely the PJW Mime Config plugin. After installing PJW Mime Config the mime type you...
HP Officejet Pro 8500A A910a on Ubuntu 10.10
Update: The latest version of hplip has the correct entries in the installer/distros.dat file. Go to the aforementioned link and follow the instructions to install on Ubuntu 10.10 and it should work well for you. Just bought a new HP Officejet Pro 8500A A910a as my HP...