Gordaen’s Blog

She is a little sensitive about her weight, but maybe she should be…

What does the secret button do?

I did a post on this previously, but that solution was not ideal. Essentially, there are two versions of Totem, one using xine and one using gstreamer. The gstreamer one is the default and it is the one that has color problems when paired with an ATI card and (I believe) the FGLRX […]

It’s a bit late, so I’ll cut the story down significantly. I was attempting to make my nginx (web server) install play nicely with a front controller PHP setup and became rather frustrated tonight. For some reason, Firefox started to download the index file as a bin(ary). Any time I went to […]

When I saw the “Zoo fears as polar bear eats cubs” headline, I was intrigued. I haven’t been reading the news much lately, because it always seems to be filled with politicians doing the opposite of what they are saying. Thinking this would be an interesting change, I read through the article […]