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January 11, 2010
23:50
KDE3 and QT3 Fixes for Firefox Using gtk-qt-engine
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Well, gtk-qt-engine isn't supporting KDE3 in new versions, and most people have forgotten KDE3 and moved on to the piece of crap KDE4. I use KDE3/QT3, and like gtk-qt-engine. I had a few issues with the look of firefox under it, though.1. The biggest was that radio buttons and checkboxes got whited out whenever I'd click them and they'd be active.2. The scrollbar's leftmost line didn't render properly, and only drew down the length of the slider..3. The bottom statusbar was sectionized and thus ugly.I've written a userscript/userstyle (http://userstyles.org/styles/24068) that fixes all of these. I suggest using the firefox extension stylish (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108) to use my userscript, but it should work just fine with greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748) as well.Let me know how it works for you!
November 30, 2009
23:31
Keep Our Web Free: Stop Rick Boucher's Attack On Internet Ads
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Without ads, this site, as well as others like Digg, Facebook, Google, various blogs, and the ever popular cheezburger sites like LOLCats would die.The bill Rick Boucher is attempting to pass would make it nearly impossible to advertise on websites by making people agree to an agreement before they are advertised to. They don't have to do this with radio, print, or television ads, so why should we have to do it online?Hindering this would kill the internet as we know it. Please read up on the issue, and sign the petition.Link here:http://keepourwebfree.org/ (http://keepourwebfree.org/)
November 11, 2009
22:59
Recent Goings On - Magazine Articles, Linux, SEO, and School
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Well, I was unkowingly featured in Linux Format (http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/) issue 124 in a way, as they mentioned my apt-fast script in the article Make Linux Faster, Lighter, and More Powerful (http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/make-linux-faster-lighter-and-more-powerful-641317?artc_pg=6) (linked to page 6 of the article where apt-fast (http://www.mattparnell.com/projects/apt-fast-and-axel-roughly-26x-faster-apt-get-installations-and-upgrades.html)is mentioned). I love the fact that my involvement in the Linux community has been chronicled yet again, as it was back when I was maintaining deb packages for the Ubuntu version of the Zen Kernel (http://www.mattparnell.com/zen/press/zen-article.jpg).
October 11, 2009
17:49
FREE McDonald's 2009 Monopoly Codes
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I just discovered 3 free codes. One requires facebook. All of this is sourced from this blog (http://sweetiessweeps.com/2009/10/2009-monopoly-game-at-mcdonalds-free.html). It has other good info about rare codes and pieces, too.How to Enter Online: Visit monopoly.promotions.com/monopoly09/front.do (http://monopoly.promotions.com/monopoly09/front.do) and setup an account. Then input your codes. Free McDonald's Monopoly Codes: I6L6V4N4T09 (From Rules) UONLYRICHER (From Facebook) ONLYPLYRSWN How to use the McDonald's Facebook code: 1. You must have a Facebook account. Sign up free or login. 2. Go here to access the McDonald's page on Facebook. 3. Click Go. 4. Click Allow. 5. Click Let's Play. 6. Click Publish or Okay (pick one). 7. Click Okay. 8. You will be taken to the McDonald's Monopoly page. 9. Click Let's Play. 10. Sign in. 11. Click to Roll. The FREE Code can be used only once per person and/or email address or mobile phone and will not count against your daily play limit of ten (10) Codes per day. FREE Codes can be used by multiple participants.
September 29, 2009
2:04
My Current Boot Time in Linux - 12s after Post
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Using 2.6.31-zen2 with the BTRFS filesystem, as well as running without an initrd and having all of my modules compiled in with a kernel size of 630kb uncompressed, I can say my machine is good in latency, speed, and efficiency...It's an HP DV9205US, and if you'd like to see my .config sometime (it works on many different HP laptops, though you may have to tweak it or use different drivers), and produces a beauty of a kernel.Here's my bootchart:
September 23, 2009
12:58
In Honor of the Current WootOff: Bag of Crap Alarm Version 0.02
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WOOTOFF!Ever since woot changed their design, my script has been broken. Since we have a wootoff going on now, I've refined and updated it so that once more it works.I've removed a feature in the public version that runs your browser of choice with the buy now link in order to quash the competition, and so that you can learn a little bit if you desire this feature...add it yourself! It's just one line of code.To use this, you need a UNIX style shellscript interpreter, sed, grep, curl, and play, though you could use any equivalent program for these to mod the script to work on other OS'es than Mac and Linux.Download by clicking here (http://www.mattparnell.com/down/woot_alarm_bash_script.tar.gz), and see the below for the code, should you want to look it over.#!/bin/bash#Wootwatch Alarm v0.02#Written by Matt Parnell/ilikenwf http://www.mattparnell.com (http://www.mattparnell.com)#This is totally free, take it and mod it however you wish, under the GNU GPLv3.#This script goes every 3 sec to woot and checks for a bag of crap. If found, it sounds an alarm.clear i=0r=0while [ $i -lt 1 ] do r=`expr $r + 1` WOOT=`curl -s -f http://www.woot.com` (http://www.woot.com`) ITEM=`echo $WOOT | /bin/sed 's/.*<h2 class= fn [^>]*>([^>]*)</h2>.*/1/'` BUY=`echo $WOOT | grep -o WantOne.aspx?id=.[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*` echo if echo $ITEM | grep Random Crap ; then play -q alarm.mp3 echo echo BOC FOUND after $r runs. i=1 exit else AVAIL=`echo $WOOT | grep -o width:[[:alnum:]]*%'>< | grep -o [[:alnum:]]*% ` echo Current item: echo $ITEM echo echo Price: $`echo $WOOT | /bin/sed 's/.*<span class= amount [^>]*>([^>]*)</span>.*/1/'` if echo $AVAIL |grep [[:alnum:]] > /dev/null; then echo Available:...
12:58
In Honor of the Current WootOff: Bag of Crap Alarm Version 0.02
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WOOTOFF!Ever since woot changed their design, my script has been broken. Since we have a wootoff going on now, I've refined and updated it so that once more it works.I've removed a feature in the public version that runs your browser of choice with the buy now link in order to quash the competition, and so that you can learn a little bit if you desire this feature...add it yourself! It's just one line of code.To use this, you need a UNIX style shellscript interpreter, sed, grep, curl, and play, though you could use any equivalent program for these to mod the script to work on other OS'es than Mac and Linux.Download by clicking here (http://www.mattparnell.com/down/woot_alarm_bash_script.tar.gz), and see the below for the code, should you want to look it over.#!/bin/bash#Wootwatch Alarm v0.02#Written by Matt Parnell/ilikenwf http://www.mattparnell.com (http://www.mattparnell.com)#This is totally free, take it and mod it however you wish, under the GNU GPLv3.#This script goes every 3 sec to woot and checks for a bag of crap. If found, it sounds an alarm.clear i=0r=0while [ $i -lt 1 ] do r=`expr $r + 1` WOOT=`curl -s -f http://www.woot.com` (http://www.woot.com`) ITEM=`echo $WOOT | /bin/sed 's/.*<h2 class= fn [^>]*>([^>]*)</h2>.*/1/'` BUY=`echo $WOOT | grep -o WantOne.aspx?id=.[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*-[[:alnum:]]*` echo if echo $ITEM | grep Random Crap ; then play -q alarm.mp3 echo echo BOC FOUND after $r runs. i=1 exit else AVAIL=`echo $WOOT | grep -o width:[[:alnum:]]*%'>< | grep -o [[:alnum:]]*% ` echo Current item: echo $ITEM echo echo Price: $`echo $WOOT | /bin/sed 's/.*<span class= amount [^>]*>([^>]*)</span>.*/1/'` if echo $AVAIL |grep [[:alnum:]] > /dev/null; then echo Available:...
September 16, 2009
0:23
PSPP: An Opensource Clone of SPSS
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SPSS is way too expensive for a student in Intro to Statistics (me). Most of the class remains a confusion to me despite my previous successes in math classes. Furthermore, I really don't want to have to use the public computer labs here on campus with the dirty keyboards and mice, as well as the small screen resolution, and of course, Windows (nobody in their right mind really wants to use Windows). In an effort to prevent having to take my work to the lab, I went seeking a solution. I could have illegally cracked the SPSS demo, but I really don't like to do such things, and don't encourage it...
September 05, 2009
22:42
Wow, SEO Is Time Intensive Sometimes
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I've been working on a large array of projects lately, and all seem to take up time. I'm back in school, but that really doesn't hinder me that much except for the time I spend in class...furthermore, I make good use of the 30 Megabit Down / 7 Megabit up internet connection.Wordpress updates and plugin updates were first on the docket. That took plenty of time across my sites, and then I proceeded to play with some new plugins like CosHTMLCache (which broke RSS on a couple of the sites so I reverted to WP-Super-Cache), and I also have started using twitterposter to promote my posts, which has made a good increase in traffic and AdSense clicks.After that I have just been tinkering and considering whether I should put up more sites, or try to start working on my all in one blackhat SEO command center in an effort to automate as much as I can from site creation, to promotion, to maintenance and tracking, as well as ad placement and management (probably integrate OpenX in some way for that one....).All in all, I feel I'm on the upswing, though I still stink at getting many CPA conversions...I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I'd say the techniques I hear of are often so old that they are saturated or dead, so I guess I need to find a place that doesn't have a bunch of whining n00bs, and enough activity to actually warrant me joining and discussing techniques that work.In the end, it's all more of a playground than anything...I still have tons of unused domains to do something with...I'll never run out of things to do.
August 20, 2009
5:21
Pinecone Research Working Signup Link
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I know people who do this, and it is legitimate and pays fast.What you do is fill out surveys, and get paid $3 ( or $5?) per survey you do for market research. The great thing is, you just keep doing them, and keep getting paid. They payout via paypal and checks.Sign up here, and hope you get accepted! (http://link2there.com/00)Good luck!

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