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Be Prepared for the January 18th, 2012 SOPA/PIPA Blackout

SAY NO TO SOPA The Internet is going to be turning black on Jan. 19th because of the copyright legislation currently going through the two houses of Congress. SOPA in the House of Representatives and PIPA in the Senate both … Continue reading

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How To Install Emacs 24 on Debian Squeeze

You are probably wondering what all the fuss is about the newest prerelease versions of Emacs 24. Well, the best way to see them is to install the newest version.Here’s how you can do that on Debian. This tutorial is … Continue reading

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Grindcraft: My Windows “Port”, A Minecraft Soundtrack for your daily life

I stumbled upon this program called “GrindCraft“. It plays songs from the Minecraft soundtrack at random times while you are at your computer. However, it only works for Macs, well easily anyways. Today I ported it to Windows with Audiere. … Continue reading

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How to Install CrunchBang Linux Statler and Keep Your Windows Install

CrunchBang Linux (aka #!) is an openbox distro with a simple and efficient setup. Generally the procedure for installing Linux from a flash drive is to open up Unetbootin and let it do its work on the .iso file. However, … Continue reading

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Using EasyGUI to Enhance Your Python Script

The programming language Python has many different libraries that allow you to create applications with graphical user interfaces. Some are more popular than others (Tkinter being the most well known). Many are very obscure and have very little documentation. One … Continue reading

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Raybans and Macbooks: A Journey On Becoming A Hipster

This is a guide on how to be a hipster. Or maybe it’s a tale of how not to be a hipster. With these easy steps you can achieve victory before achieving was cool. Just follow these simple steps. Firstly, … Continue reading

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My First Day of Minecraft (Or How I Fail At Minecraft)

Minecraft is the insanely popular sanbox game from the swedish developer Mojang. It is currently running in a beta. But anyone can buy and download it for 25% off of the sale price when it comes out in November. Anyways … Continue reading

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So…

I have been really busy with school work lately so don’t expect too much high quality journalism for the time being. I haven’t really done any programming lately so don’t expect any high quality updates either. But I have been … Continue reading

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Twitathon

I just wanted to announce a new addition to the family of scripts I have written recently. It is called Twitathon, and is a Python written Twitter client. You can find it at http://sourceforge.net/p/twitathon/. Please use it and help me … Continue reading

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Make Emacs Open Fullscreen All the Time

I was having problems with Emacs loading half off my desktop when I opened it so I googled around the internet(z) and I found this code: (defun toggle-fullscreen () (interactive) (x-send-client-message nil 0 nil “_NET_WM_STATE” 32 ‘(2 “_NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_VERT” 0)) (x-send-client-message … Continue reading

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