Well as you will be told all over the place the double dash is the industry standard indicator of the beginning of a signature.  Well guess what? It messes with my uber ascii art signature that I created today out of a need to reduce my x-spam score and stop getting blocked by spam (Blogged
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Skype refused to login today, quoting this lovely error to me everytime I tried.  After a little bit of googling I was overwhelmed with results from dim-witted people suggesting to delete ~/.Skype to fix this problem and I thought I would make a quick post to hopefully help people fix this properly. The issue here
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So this is an interesting problem that has haunted me for the past week or so.  I was running dual monitors last week which allowed me 12 virtual desktops, one stacked on the other.  This made my desktop cube/hexagon twice as tall which was awesome.. The problem was that when I unplugged the monitor and
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Well the operating system is functional, I can get emails, I can surf the web, I can connect via wireless or, for the first time with this laptop, via a cat5 cable but man oh man does it look like shit. The main issues I have to deal with right off the bat are: Compiz
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I ran into a little problem today where one of the programs I wrote to create blog posts was creating duplicates during one step of the process.  I haven’t quite figured out why it’s doing it yet however in the meantime I have used it to create and import about 25,000 blog posts and the
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