Monthly Archives: August 2007

Goodbye Banshee, Welcome Back Rhythmbox

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Michael Schurter

After leaving Gnome‘s default music player, Rhythmbox, for Banshee almost a year ago, I’m back using Rhythmbox.  I only have 476 songs on my computer and already managing them in Banshee was getting painful. Rhythmbox feels like it starts faster … Continue reading →

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Drupal Database Maintenance Script

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Michael Schurter

I love Drupal, but its insistence on saving every session its ever created causes the sessions table to become massive. So I usually end up creating a shell script like the following: drupal-db-maint.sh (I posted a copy to pastebin since … Continue reading →

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Gnome Feature Idea: View Output

Posted on August 2, 2007 by Michael Schurter

From time to time applications crash (I’m looking at you Pidgin*). To diagnose the crash I usually start the application in a terminal to watch what it outputs. Most Linux applications noisily dump all kinds of information to the terminal … Continue reading →

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