Krazy Glew's Blog

Andy "Krazy" Glew is a computer architect, a long time poster on comp.arch ... and an evangelist of collaboration tools such as wikis, calendars, blogs, etc. Plus an occasional commentator on politics, taxes, and policy. Particularly the politics of multi-ethnic societies such as Quebec, my birthplace.

The content of this blog is my personal opinion. It is not that of my employer. See Disclaimer.

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Monday, January 02, 2012

Recovering diverged home directory version control

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I have long version controlled my home directory.  CVS. Git. Hg. Unfortunately, they diverged.  Divergence happens naturally with CVS.  Yo...

Missing X fonts

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Like  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11544410 , I was getting errors such as Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-me...
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An Amusing and Frustrating Anecdote about Google 2-step Verification

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I like Google 2-step verification - in which you normally log in with a password, but where, if you are logging in from a new machine, etc....
Monday, December 12, 2011

Powering up multiple displays on Windows 7 - lots of flashing :-(

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I have 4 external 1920x1200 displays connected to my Lenovo Thinkpad X220 Tablet PC, via Diamond DisplayLink based USB adapters. When I po...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Lifehack: Binder Clips help Debug Chistmas Lights

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Fixing Christmas lights today. Figured out the binary search approach - e.g. as described by  http://www.squidoo.com/howto-fix-broken-chri...
Thursday, December 08, 2011

A Modest 1 bit Proposal about Quotification - making the Default Easy

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Listening to an old "Security Now" podcast while doing my morning stretches. Leo Laporte's TWIT website was hacked, and Stev...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Multiple Displays on Windows 7... Good, but...

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I love the DisplayLink USB display adapters that let my piddling little tablet PC drive 4 1920x1200 external monitors. However, many, umm,...
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