http://marcfearby.com Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:56:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 http://marcfearby.com/computing/custom-latin-keyboard-layout http://marcfearby.com/computing/custom-latin-keyboard-layout#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:49:14 +0000 Marc http://marcfearby.com/?p=78 Graduate Diploma in Humanities at the University of New England this year and got sick of my Open Office macro toolbars for entering special characters. So, after some googling, I decided that a custom keyboard layout would be my only salvation. So, here's an installer created under 64-bit Windows 7 (that should work for 32-bit as well) that probably also works in Vista, I'd be willing to bet...]]> http://marcfearby.com/computing/custom-latin-keyboard-layout/feed 2 http://marcfearby.com/blowhole/crappy-linux-twitter-clients http://marcfearby.com/blowhole/crappy-linux-twitter-clients#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:29:04 +0000 Marc http://marcfearby.com/?p=73 Twitux seems capable of producing nothing but "Timeline Parse Error" messages these days, so I went looking for something else. Found two possibilities: gTwitter and Gwibber. Judging by the screenshots, Gwibber is a screen real-estate hog, so I don't think I'll bother with that. So that leaves gTwitter. More disappointment in store, it seems...]]> http://marcfearby.com/blowhole/crappy-linux-twitter-clients/feed 0 http://marcfearby.com/computing/quick-and-dirty-jquery-centred-tabs http://marcfearby.com/computing/quick-and-dirty-jquery-centred-tabs#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:39:14 +0000 Marc http://marcfearby.com/?p=62 jQuery.UI, unless you're prepared to resort to quick and dirty hacks like this one I just cobbled together...]]> http://marcfearby.com/computing/quick-and-dirty-jquery-centred-tabs/feed 0 http://marcfearby.com/blowhole/im-with-linus-kde-4-sucks http://marcfearby.com/blowhole/im-with-linus-kde-4-sucks#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:26:09 +0000 Marc http://marcfearby.com/?p=54 I might use Linux, but I wouldn’t recommend it. A comment to that post by one "JD" said that this was because I have "made bad Linux choices". Well, having decided to bite the bullet and give Ubuntu with GNOME a try, I'm inclined to agree...]]> http://marcfearby.com/blowhole/im-with-linus-kde-4-sucks/feed 16 http://marcfearby.com/blowhole/i-might-use-linux-but-i-would-not-recommend-it http://marcfearby.com/blowhole/i-might-use-linux-but-i-would-not-recommend-it#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:14:41 +0000 Marc http://marcfearby.com/?p=39 http://marcfearby.com/blowhole/i-might-use-linux-but-i-would-not-recommend-it/feed 8