http://fakebucket.com/blog nothing serious, just for fun Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:22:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you ever encountered a situation where a specific book becomes popular in your office or social circle? Then you start to hear lingo and new buzzwords referencing that book. And you find your wanting to read that book, simply to be in the loop. Unfortunately, you might not have ... http://fakebucket.com/blog/?p=159 OpenSync seems like a noble project. I always have a hell of a time trying to sync my devices togethor. Often I loose information and numbers when syncing with Outlook contacts because Nokia phones use different formats. Not to mention the head ache of syncing Nokia phones to non-windows. Not ... http://fakebucket.com/blog/?p=154 I want to write about what I see as a common misconception. That boredom means free time. In fact, I think boredom has very little to do with time at all. Boredom in my opinion, is about the mind not having anything challenging to do. To use a computer analogy, ... http://fakebucket.com/blog/?p=79 I updated the Ubuntu HCL site with my experience of the previously mentioned 3g mobile connect card. Take a look here. Huawei E170 (Networking) - Ubuntu Linux Hardware Compatibility List http://fakebucket.com/blog/?p=149 My 3g mobile connect card I got from Mobily was detected automatically on Ubuntu, which is version 8.10. The connect card is Huawei e170. The first couple of times I tried connecting it didn't work. When I checked the settings I found that everything was empty except the "Number" which ... http://fakebucket.com/blog/?p=143 I stopped allowing commenting on my blog about a year ago when I found that I had over 7 thousand spam comments. I didn't know how to stop the spam until recently I've added the spam utility through WordPress, called Akismet. Now I have the task of deleting 7'000 comments, which ... http://fakebucket.com/blog/?p=132 Often documents are written in Arabic using specific Windows fonts, so when the document needs to be viewed on Ubuntu it might not display correctly. One method to solve this problem, is to use the fonts from your Windows partition within Ubuntu. First create a new directory within Ubuntu under the ... http://fakebucket.com/blog/?p=96 When you upload your images to be viewed on the web, its best to reduce the size of the image to fit into a normal browser window and more importantly so that web site is quick and responsive to viewers. If you are working with a lot of images at ... http://fakebucket.com/blog/?p=110 My old hosting environment stopped working and with it so did my on-line web-album. I've been meaning to rebuild web-album since I moved my blog to new hosting. But I keep putting  it off. I tried using the a web album, simply called Gallery, offered by my new hosting. But seemed ... http://fakebucket.com/blog/?p=109 I'm currently on PTO. Which is short for Paid Time-Off, as the US corporate world calls it. I find the stages of  vacation very interesting and an emotional roller coaster. First we have the wishing Stage, where I wish I could start PTO immediately. That happens a lot. :-) The frequency of ... http://fakebucket.com/blog/?p=77