TechKnack

While the MS Office 2007 GUI is nice (and maybe even a tad more usable), the (relatively) new docx file format is so proprietary, it’s not even funny. Can Office 2003 users open it? Not without the Microsoft-developed “compatibility pack”. Can OpenOffice users open it? Not without installing a non-standard file [...]

If you’re planning on selling your computer in a usable state, chances are you’ll want to securely erase that three to five years of tax forms, social security numbers, etc from your hard drive. The most secure method (for us civilians, anyways) to destroy that data while keeping the drive usable is to start [...]

After the upgrade to WordPress, I haven’t updated the theme to include this feature. I may jsut stick to code highlighting for now.
I’ve employed a bit of progressive JS here on the blog to make it easier for readers to copy the blocks of code that I post. Go ahead, try it: click [...]

There’s been a lot of opinions expressed about the IE team’s introduction of the X-UA-Compatible HTTP header (or, in most cases, a meta tag in the html), otherwise known as Opt-in Standards Mode, with IE8. Most of the opinionators seem to be opposed to the “switch”, while a few (PPK of QuirksMode and Aaron [...]

I recently wrote a post about KDE4 and Plasma, and my first impressions about it. Yesterday, I ran aptitude dist-upgrade to find out that KDE4 had an upgrade available. KDE 4.0.1 is here.
The main changes I’ve noticed since the update is some changed and some missing functionality. The “Add widget” area [...]