Make Windows Act Like Linux

As I use Win7 more and more, there are things that I notice it doesn’t do that linux did do. Virtual desktops, certain programs minimizing to the systray, clipboard history. Small things, things that you normally would take for granted if you had them, but things that become very noticeable when they’re suddenly [...]

Linux-to-Windows Program Replacements

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been using the Windows 7 beta. A shocker, I know, but I’ve been able to find replacements for most of the software I use everyday in Linux. The biggest hangups I’ve found so far are 1) lack of package manager (PLEASE, Microsoft, implement something to this [...]

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Windows 7 and — My Computer!

Disclaimer: I never have gotten a chance to experiment with Vista, so I apologize if some of the “new features” I rant about here are actually old features carried over from Vista.
So I liked what I saw when I installed Windows 7 on VirtualBox. And I didn’t get to see Aero, and I kinda [...]

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A Couple Little PHP Array Tricks

Maintaining array indexes after deleting an element; selecting a random element from an associative array.

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Rounded Corners at the Src

CSS-based rounded corner solutions are excellent for website layouts, but it’s just downright silly to envelope a single img tag with two to four extraneous divs just to get some nice rounded corners on that one image. PHP (with its GD library) is excellent for this purpose.

Image: Warped by ~eternicode (me).
My PHP script can [...]