In the early days of this blog I used to run it on Typo, which *was* a great Ruby on Rails blogging platform (at one time).  Unfortunately the project stalled (for years) and I ended up jumping ship after a few months of bugs and the ever crashing Rails server, WEBrick.  Yes, if you search [...]

UPDATE: also, before you try this, make sure you have some good fonts installed, after a fresh install of Lenny at work, I needed to run this first: apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts
After a…slight slip up, I finally had the chance to install Linux from scratch on my laptop (Dell Vostro 1500) the way I’ve always [...]

If you’re like me, you’ve messed up your xorg.conf before and wanted to start over with the default that you know dpkg-reconfigure can set it to.  Because of this I’m posting here because I’ve needed it multiple times in the past and have tired of looking it up!  To automatically reconfigure Xorg in Debian or [...]