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My boss showed this to me today. 30 Giant Japanese Hornets attack 30,000 European Honey Bees.

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Today I went over to Howard’s house and he helped me get my hive together. He showed me how the hive body went together, how to square them up nice and tight. How to secure the joints with glue and nails. Then we move on the the super, then the frames, then a few good coats of paint. Howard’s a bit of a perfectionist, like me. So everything had to be just so. It was nice getting to spend some time with him and learned a bit from such a knowledgeable man.

After my hive was finished we switched the frames of bees out of his hive for the new frames in my hive. With this, I became a beekeeper.I really appreciate Howard for taking the time to ignite a new interest in me.

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I’ve been interested in beekeeping all my life, but until about a year ago I didn’t know anyone who kept bees. I’ve been attending The Wilkes County Beekeepers Club since the spring of 2007. But it wasn’t until today that I went and purchased the necessary supplies from Miller Bee Supply to begin this exciting new hobby. Howard Blackburn, a local Master Beekeeper, helped get me started. He brought over a hive of his, and told me what to purchase. Below is the list of supplies he told me to purchase. They do offer beginners kits, but this is what Howard recommeded, and I trust him.

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Gnome uses Nautilus as it’s file manager and ultimately the desktop manager. And Ubuntu uses Gnome. I like a clean desktop. But every time I mount a drive, a new icon is added to my desktop. This just will not do. It seems that on at least one of my installations recently I was able to disable them by checking a box somewhere. For the life of me though I can not retrace my steps. Some Googling turned up this which did just what I was looking for, but my memory still fails me.

gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible false
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/computer_icon_visible false
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible false
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_visible false

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The latest Ubuntu 8.04 just shipped with Firefox 3 beta. It has disabled many of my beloved plugins. Completely by accident I ran across a workaround for broken firebug and thought this was a workable solution. Other than the time involved in modifying all my plugins and reinstalling them in all of my firefox profiles.

Then when viewing the download page for a favorite plugin I learned that I could just enter

about.config

into my address bar and

change app.update.incompatible.mode = 1

instead add new entry

extensions.checkCompatibility

set it to

false

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A little over 2 weeks ago I brought you Growl for Linux. I still think it’s pretty slick.

For those that know I’m a command line junkie but has to co-exist in a desktop world I have managed to get my favorite irc client to report highlights to the desktop using Mumbles.

To make this all possible grab mumbles.pl and place it into your .irssi/scripts folder. Then symlink it in .irssi/scripts/autorun. Edit mumbles.pl to contain the machines you want to notify.

I’m looking forward to this.

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It’s handy, fast, and convienient to you mysql on the command line. Lately, what I’ve been using it most for is to back up and restore databases. I don’t do it often enough to have the commands committed to memory, but everytime I need it I go searching for it again. Rather than trying to find my previous search results again I’ll post them here with a summary.

To back a mysql database into a gzipped archive:

mysqldump [database] | gzip > backup.sql.gz

To restore the backup:

gunzip < backup.sql.gz | mysql [database]

Reference: web cheat sheet

Something to remind you what is is to be a man, in case you’ve forgotten. Thanks, honey for the Monday morning laugh.

Now you can have GPG encryption of your Gmail. This becomes pretty powerful when combined with portable firefox. Even Google would have a hard time cataloging and data mining your email. It works nicely.

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