After moving back to the midwest United States, I was immediately reminded of the frustrations of dealing with the primary cable internet provider–Charter Communications. They offer fairly good speeds, and when considering the price, the performance-to-cost ratio is outstanding. However, the reliability of the service leaves a lot to be desired. One of the primary …
Tag: hardware
Aug 19 2012
Keybindings and Openbox menu shortcuts for slock
After reviewing several solutions to a security problem regarding screen lockers, I’ve found that the easiest workaround for switching virtual terminals and killing the screen locker application is to start one’s X session with the following command: exec startx That way, even if someone switches to the virtual terminal that was used to start X …
Jul 22 2012
Hand me the newspaper
A friend sent me an email recently, and I thought that the attached image was pretty funny. Behold the woes of technology. Cheers, Zach