Ubuntu Countdown
Response to Reader Question: How to Archive Facebook Chats
Howto: Add Your Facebook Friends to Pidgin (via The Linuxologist)
One of my readers (and friends) asked:
“Is there a way to retrieve your facebook chats somewhere on your computer?”
While I personally do not use the Facebook chat (or any chat, seriously. I just don’t have time), I don’t get questions from my readers very often so I thought I’d look into it.
Here is what I’ve found…
The Basics
Facebook chat — as it is when you are logged in to Facebook.com — is nothing more than an HTML/AJAX “chat”… I’m trying to keep this in as plain of terms as possible for the sake of time and to save you the headache of technical details (I assume
Windows 7 – Solid Background Boot Delay Bug
OK I found this to be interesting… Apparently there is a bug in Windows 7 that causes a 30 second startup delay when you opt to use a solid color background vs. a background image of any kind…
Now, I’ve never developed (or been a part of developing) an entire operating system, so I guess my point on this may be way off base, but does this bug make any sense at all? To me, from a programming perspective, no… not at all!
Supposedly there is a patch/workaround for it, though I haven’t tried any of it (I have Windows 7 at work, I may be tempted to test it out tomorrow just for the sake of verifying it first
Project 6 – Computer Science Practicum
My how time flies!
An update is in order. I have temporarily postponed the Top Secret Project for the sake of a different project.
As I am enrolled in an on-going degree program in Computer Science, I have a course this semester that has required an extensive amount of time and resources. This course requires that I work with a team of peers to develop a project selected by our professor.
Our project, Project 6, has been a work in progress since January. The latest release is v0.3 and is currently on our test server. There is much work to be done before the final product can be released.
I was new to PHP, MySQL, and AJAX up until I