http://twhayes.net/blog invest retirement planning financial secure simple savings Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:01:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Using a new feature from TiddlyWiki, I can write blog posts offline in TiddlyWiki and then automatically upload them by clicking on a single label. Post uploads automatically into TwH Blog. Nice feature!! http://twhayes.net/blog/2007/11/05/tw-blog-post/ I just finished upgrading this blog software - WordPress - to version 2.0.5 and looking at some different themes to use.  I really like three column themes and finally decided on the one you see here called AndyBlue.  I'm also using a new editor called ChenPress, to write this post.  ... http://twhayes.net/blog/2006/11/17/upgrading-wordpress-to-205/ After several months during which we made a long journey to Vietnam to adopt our second daughter, I've finally been able to get back to working with and learning more about Linux. I plan to chronicle my experience on my wiki - TwH Wiki. On the wiki, I'll ... http://twhayes.net/blog/2006/10/26/getting-back-to-linux/ I love to listen to music when I run, but haven't been a big fan of listening to music on my computer.  With AmaroK that has started to change.  AmaroK is a music player that is styled much like Windows Media Player, but I find it easier to use.  I ... http://twhayes.net/blog/2006/06/07/amarok-14-music-player/ While perusing a Linux forum yesterday, I found an interesting capability for Linux called klik.  By following some simple install instructions (wget klik.atekon/client/install -O - | sh) you can install klik.  Then you use the klik software to access the klik website where you can select a 'package' to download.  ... http://twhayes.net/blog/2006/05/24/klik-an-easy-way-to-check-out-linux-software/ Since I had installed Debian sound hadn't been working.  Every now and then a dialog box would pop up saying something about sound, but I had been ignoring until I had more time to explore what was wrong.  Yesterday, I deciided to see if I could get sound to work ... http://twhayes.net/blog/2006/05/09/setting-up-sound/ After a couple of weeks of trying various configuration combinations, I finally was able to print from my Linux box to a shared printer on my Win XP box.  It took a long time and I'm still not entirely sure what I did to make it work.  As I've mentioned ... http://twhayes.net/blog/2006/05/07/printing-from-linux-to-a-windows-shared-printer/ In my last post, I described how I set up and configured Samba.  Now it is time to see how to use Samba, both on the Windows and the Linux boxes. First, to the Windows box.  Chapter 3 of the O'Reilly online Samba book offers a comprehensive discussion on how to ... http://twhayes.net/blog/2006/04/28/using-samba-in-file-managers/ As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of the reaons I'm setting up this Linux box is to see if I can make do the normal things that I do with Windows XP.  Of course, that means I need to be able to network my Linux box with other ... http://twhayes.net/blog/2006/04/25/setting-up-samba/ In my last post, I talked about installing Firefox using a Debian package and Kpackage.  But, this method provided me with an older version of Firefox than I wanted.  So, I went searching for a newer version that was Linux compatible.  Once I found it, I then had to learn how ... http://twhayes.net/blog/2006/04/22/installing-firefox-from-a-targz/