Shell Script to Install/Update VirtualBox on Centos 6

CentOS 6 If you’re like me, you like testing software in a virtual machine, before committing it to your live system. That’s what I do with Oracle’s VirtualBox. Something you might have noticed is that the VirtualBox yum repository doesn’t work all that well with CentOS, (as it’s not really for CentOS in the first […]

Hatchback or Liftgate? Auto Propaganda Persists.

Remember #Ford’s nonsense commercials for the "foot operated liftgate" on their new whatever they are vehicles? Yeah, so do I, and I can’t stand them. Their vehicle has a foot activated hatchback, not any sort of "liftgate". Now, I know the difference and for the rest of the world, in an effort to put an […]

Pidgin with Facebook Chat

As most everyone knows, services like Twitter and Facebook changed their APIs awhile back, effectively killing all the 3rd party client programs that we all loved using. The Fabina Socialist micromanagement has even infected the Internet, it would seem. Well, the Internet has an answer to that; for Facebook, at least, and it comes from […]