Summary: This post details a relatively simple way I got my external monitor (ASUS VH242H) to work with Ubuntu-powered notebook (HP dv7-3080us). Check out my xorg.conf or see the gallery of images if you are having trouble getting your setup to work. I started my new year with a sick husband and installing Ubuntu 11.10 [...]
One thing I haven’t shared too publicly is that I worked as a part-time customer service agent for a telemarketing firm. It was a departure for any of the previous jobs I’ve held but I now hold a deeper appreciation for the work that telemarketers do. So, what has precipitated this change of subject matter? [...]
TL;DR – Android Gingerbread on the Atrix features a slew of new/updated features and this article goes over some of the more memorable changes to Gingerbread on the Atrix (Installation of apps from unknown sources is now enabled, etc). Visit my Min.us gallery of Atrix Gingerbread screenshots. I updated my Motorola Atrix to Android 2.3 [...]
TL;DR – I haven’t needed to because the Atrix (custom Android skin – MOTOBLUR, generous specs, warts and all) is quite capable for me as a ‘regular’ user. Sys admins, serious tinkerers and people who yearn for a plain vanilla Android experience are probably not the target for this article. If you are in the [...]
I made a rookie move while on Habari: I switched to using only post titles i.e. janetalkstech.com/%postname%. After I migrated from Habari to WordPress, I decided to keep that post structure i.e. janetalkstech.com/%postname%. Unfortunately for me, WordPress developers strongly recommend against setting up sites this way. After several days of seeing intermittent 500 errors and [...]
Update #3: I performed a Google search on WordPress forums and found other people with the same issue: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-disqus-comment-system-crawl-errors-with-plugin https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-disqus-comment-system-disqus-comment-system-showing-weird-code-on-my-page. Update #2: Disqus says the script below isn’t generated by Disqus. I’m guessing the Disqus plugin is not created by the folks at Disqus: Here’s the actual universal code for enabling comment counts on Disqus-enabled [...]