Anyways, here’s what worked: instead of doing it KDE or Ubuntu-style, I set the monitors up with ATI’s AMD Catalyst Control Center. If you have the fglrx drivers installed, then you probably already have it: run it with

from the command line.

You’ll get something like this:

Anyway, make sure your screens aren’t clones of each other in the Display Manager part. That’ll let you enable xinerama under Display Options. Apply the settings, restart your computer, and you should have two fully-functioning, non-cloned monitors!

My xorg.conf is below, just for reference:

I particularly like the search function. It’s actually quite useful.

It’s very simple and can probably be optimized, but it works.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments. I’ll probably end up updating it as new versions of the User Groups module come out.

You’ll need two templates: one with the form that the user submits with the category name and description (I’ll call this the index template), and one with PHP enabled (parsed on input, NOT output), which I’ll call the create template. In this instance, I’m creating a groups equivalent for users based on categories.     

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Message: Co-Op-Service: 462562xxxxxxxxxxx-Frozen.Cal 866.360.8725

I googled around, couldn’t find anything similar to this message that anyone had received, nor any message of the 866 phone number.

So, I called it. Turns out that it tells you that your credit card account has been frozen, and that you need to enter your credit card number and a bunch of other stuff in order to reactive your credit card.

This is of course not true.

I’ll try to record the automated 866 number message later tonight.

I’ve cleaned them up a bit, and they’re available in .odt and .doc format. This template is in portrait format - I have the same template in landscape format that I can put up later if you’d like.

These templates are free for you to use in any way you see fit, with or without attribution, and for private, non-profit and personal use.

Download here

.ODT invoice template
.doc invoice template
.PDF invoice template (not editable)

The best source for dubstep in Sacramento I’ve found are the “Boom” events. I usually find out about them from 303sumatra’s MySpace page.

Also, shameless plug time: I made dubstepp.com a little while ago. It’s a great dubstep music aggregator/listening channel - it scrapes http://reddit.com/r/dubstep/ for tracks and puts them all in one place. dubstepp.com makes it really easy to find new artists and songs. Check it out - I think you’ll like it!

Anyway, SpiderOak gives all their users 2GB of lifetime storage, for free. Besides backing up all your regular documents and everything, you can also back up some important hidden directories, including your Firefox bookmarks and profile, and your KDE settings. Here’s how I did it.

First, you need to display the hidden directories in the SpiderOak client, so you can tell SpiderOak what to back up. To display the hidden directories, click the icon which looks like this, circled in red:

Once you do that, you should see something like this, assuming you’re looking at your home directory:

Your Firefox profile, with all your bookmarks and settings in it, is in .mozilla/firefox. If you select the firefox directory and find that it takes up way more of your backup space than you want, and you use Google’s Gears plugin, try unchecking the “Google Gears for Firefox” folder - that trimmed nearly 700 megabytes off the total space I needed to have backed up.

If you use Pidgin, you’ll want to select the .purple folder. This will back up all of your chat logs.

And, if you use KDE, you’ll probably want to back up your .kde folder. (Your .gnome and/or .gnome2 folders if you use Gnome). The .kde folder is where all of KDE’s settings are kept: font sizes, Kwin settings, panel options, saved Kwallet passwords, Dolphin/Konqueror bookmarks, etc. If your hard drive dies and you need to reinstall, replacing your new .kde folder with your backed-up one will make your KDE look and feel just like it did before your crash. One thing to be aware of: if you use Kmail, Kmail stores all of its mail in the .kde/share/apps/kmail folder. Depending on how much mail you have in there, you may want to uncheck .kde/share/apps/kmail so you don’t go over your SpiderOak limit.

Have any other SpiderOak tips, or important Linux config folders that you always back up that I haven’t mentioned? Let me know in the comments!

I believe these are leaves from a Valley Oak, Quercus lobata, but I could be wrong.

You can download all of the derivations I made of the original scanned image, including the original image and a transparent PNG GIMP .xcf file, here, in a .zip file: oak leaves zip. As well, here are the individual files: