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I had been unsuccessful in running the latest version of Skype on my Mac – it would crash on startup. I finally found the solution in one of the comments on Skype’s versiontracker.com entry: add Skype.app to Application Enhancer’s “Master exclude” list. I did this, and now Skype works fine!

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I recently managed (accidentally, just by upgrading X.org) to get accelerated graphics working on my T43p Thinkpad running Gentoo. So now I get all the nice Xscreensaver GL hacks running at full speed – with one little problem: I have my system configured for dual-head mode (internal screen and external monitor) using MergedFB, with both [...]

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Thanks to the always-useful Thinkwiki, I am now able to hot swap the Ultrabay in my T43p, which makes it possible to exchange, for example, the DVD-RW drive for an additional hard disk, without having to reboot or even put the machine to sleep. Essentially, just follow the instructions on Thinkwiki, which boil down to [...]

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I recently reinstalled Gentoo Linux on my Thinkpad, using a second disk, with my old disk mounted in the UltraBay slot. I found that I could not enable DMA on the old disk, which made most operations (for example, copying my quite large home directory) unbearably slow. I just found the solution in the always-useful [...]

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This had been bothering me for a while. Due mostly to artifacts in synchronizing with my PalmOS device, a large number of duplicates had accumulated in my Evolution addressbook. Today I put together this short script to eliminate them. It’s crude, but it sort of works.
Standard disclaimer applies: use at your own risk, backup your [...]

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Evolution 2.6.1 had been driving me mad recently – every few minutes, CPU utilization would go up to 100% for about 20 seconds, slowing down everything in my system, and then go back to normal. Today I found the cause: I had enabled “Periodically synchronize contact information and images from gaim buddy list” (in Mail [...]

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Some time ago I posted the bookmarklet I use to post links to del.icio.us from my browser’s address bar. Some time ago also it sort-of stopped working – it would still post the link, but leave me with a blank window. I had been too lazy to figure out what was wrong until yesterday, and [...]

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Update: new overlay for xscreensaver 5 (see below)
A Linux driver for the fingerprint reader found in some of the newer Thinkpads has been released (I have a T43p). I got it to work on Gentoo using the instructions and ebuilds provided by Tobias Sager, which are based on the original instructions found in the very [...]

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