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visual studio 2010 – How do I apply themes to Solution Explorer in VS2010 – Stack Overflow

visual studio 2010 – How do I apply themes to Solution Explorer in VS2010 – Stack Overflow. This is mighty annoying. The Solution Explorer doesn’t get themed when you apply a theme like ZenBurn. Hope that they fix this for VS2012? Is that out yet? photo credit: dalancarter

[ More ] August 4th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in software |

Opendipity or Western Digital MyBook World Edition Hacks

So it is a great thing when a piece of hardware you bought turns out to run Linux. Serendipity specifically related to electronics and ability to run FOSS, maybe opendipity? I had bought the Western Digital MyBook NAS device because it of the network attached nature, the 1 TB size, and what I thought was [...]

[ More ] October 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in gnu/linux, hardware, media, software |

OS X on Dell D420

After running Ubuntu Karmic Koala for about a month on the my Dell D420, I have decided to give OS X a try. I started here. Ended up here. 10.5 was a bust. 10.6 works great! The process I used was: 1. Get 10.6 disc or disc image. 2. Make an external hard drive version [...]

[ More ] December 16th, 2009 | 12 Comments | Posted in apple, gnu/linux, hardware, software, ubuntu |

Delete Pics help from Excel-anauts

Ever copy a table from an ASP page? And the table had some pictures of your friends mean cat in it that you didn’t want? Here’s some help with that, from Google Groups: Open the workbook select that worksheet hit alt-f11 to get to the vbe hit ctrl-g to see the immediate window Type Activesheet.pictures.delete [...]

[ More ] October 6th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in software |

jAOLT – FOSS ebay listing software

This software was great! But partly because it is the only one out there. Looking around for something, anything but the web interface on GNU/Linux, I found this. jAOLT works. In my usage of it so far, I haven’t had a problem. I used it to create about 20 listings in a pretty short amount [...]

[ More ] April 5th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in gentoo, gnu/linux, software, ubuntu |