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IntelliJ IDEA 9 Subversion Functionality Is Buggy as Sin

I already blogged about running into problems with IntelliJ 9’s SVN operations once before, and here I am again, unable to check a goddamn thing into my repository because it’s done it again “Checksum mismatch while updating…”
Previous to this error I tried to commit 10 changed files that had a refactored common method in them [...]

WordPress Image Upload ‘Crunching’ Not Resizing Images

NOTE: I am posting this information here because I just spent 20 mins Googling for the types of phrases in the title and never got a direct answer and hope anyone else that isn’t a PHP/WordPress guru that needs help with this can find it with this post.
I migrated my WordPress sites to a new server [...]

SmugMug Downloader Web Start Link Fixed

It looks like on Mac the Java Web Start JNLP file used to launch the SmugMug Downloader had an invalid reference to itself and was failing to load — it seems on Windows this was working anyway.

kallasoft SmugMug Album Downloader Announced

kallasoft would like to announce the initial release of the SmugMug Album Downloader. The purpose of this software is to help you download your albums from SmugMug onto your local machine on Windows, Linux or Mac.
Comments and feedback welcome!

Global, Mac-like Menubar on GNOME with gnome2-globalmenu

Caught the introduction of this story over on OS News — apparently folks have been voting on the addition of a global, application-context sensitive menubar in Gnome for a while. The design of the bar is very similar to the way the global bar in Mac works. For those that don’t know, there is a [...]

FOG as a web-based Ghost Replacement

Lets face it, some sectors just can’t move to Linux due to legacy application support, lack of personnel support, employee training, and especially due to the jump in vastly different user interfaces. Each company has their own incredibly (insert sarcasm) unique reason for holding back. So, what is left for the network admins to do [...]

Mephisto Backup

I’ve recently ran across a unique little backup utility called Mephisto. The program is a command line tool written in Java that incorporates rsync and tar to do filesystem backups to a remote filesystem or local image. Of course utilities like this are great for doing system duplication, and especially great when you roll your [...]

VitualBox 2.1.2 Released

You might have noticed that VirtualBox 2.1.2 has been released into the wild. While there is a laundry list of changes, a few performance and stability enhancements for Mac OS X were on the top of want my list.
While Parallels and VMWare offer commercial solutions, Sun backed VirtualBox offers many similar features for free. As [...]

Zero Install Allows Installs for Unpriviledged Users

I recently ran across an interesting application that allows unprivileged users to install programs. While this maybe a good surface idea, the concept and coolness factor runs a little deeper.
The idea behind 0Install is to give the ’standard user’ install privileges without compromising a system if malicious software is installed. While this is cool [...]

QT 4.5 as LGPL

If you haven’t heard yet, there is good news on the application development platform front. Recently Qt Software, owned by Nokia, announced that the next version of their flagship product, QT 4.5, will be distributed under the LGPL. Prior to this announcement, the platform was free for open source use, while the price of a [...]

UI Design Can Be Funny Sometimes… Again

Right after we got done laughing about Mixx’s somewhat mixed message on it’s “do more!” submission confirmation page, we tried out Google’s Friend Connect (integrated on the right hand side of the site if you are interested) and saw an even more interesting placement of conflicting functions:

Pretty great if you ask us… immediately after you [...]