Mint 11 - Broken or No Workspace Switching, Cannot Move or Resize Windows

I was playing around in Compiz and I enabled "Desktop Cube".  This broke a myriad of things in such as missing title bars and the inability to move windows in Mint 11.  I reverted the Desktop Cube, but Compriz did not return the setting before I enabled this plugin. Those were easily fixed:

1. Goto Control Center


2. Select Compiz


3. Scroll down to Window Management to fix the inability to move / resize windows
   
   
   
   1. Enable Move Window, Resize Window, Application Switcher, etc.
   
   


4. The broken ability to switch workspaces is some options under "Desktop" in Compiz were turned off
   
   
   1. Enable Desktop Wall and Viewport Switcher
   
   

I'm blogging this in case I need to remind myself how to fix this issue.

Stop Pesky Leafleting - Free No Handbills, Leaflets, Pamphlets Sign for Minneapolis Residents

No Handbills Sign.pdf
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Are you sick of getting commercial handbills (i.e. pamphlets, circulars, leaflets, advertisements, etc.) on your property in the City of Minneapolis (Minnesota)?  I certainly am!  The Minneapolis City Code prohibits the distribution of commercial handbills on private premises if there is a notice (i.e. sign) prohibiting them.  I obtained this information from Minneapolis 311 which referred me to Chapter 403 of the City Code:

Chapter 403 - Handbill Distribution

So I created a sign that I posted in the window of our porch.  Feel free to download the PDF and use it on your private property.  It includes a citation with the city code and section number for those pesky handbill distributors you catch.  Minneapolis 311 also said that you can the Minneapolis Police Non-Emergency number at 612-348-2345 if you catch a handbill distributor leaving commercial handbills.  There are some handbills that are considered non-commercial or protected speech (such as political and religious) so you might err on the side of safety if the handbill is not clearly a commercial handbill.

cf.Objective() 2011 - 2nd Annual Google Map - Places to Eat, Drink or Things to Do

[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=213377847837207216642.000484608da9ec213d3ce&ll=44.959454,-93.268604&spn=0.058305,0.109863&z=13&output=embed&w=640&h=480]

Let me know if you want to add anything on the map.  I'll add you as a collaborator!

cf.Objective() Announces List of Community Events

Hot off the presses...go check out the list of community events including the Enlist HackFest:

cf.Objective() 2011 Community Events

Enlist - Open Source Hackfest at cf.Objective() 2011

Matt Woodward, Kurt Wiersma and I are proud to announce that the Enlist App that we started at OpenCF Summit will have an un-official hackfest at cf.Objective() 2011.  So if you are attending cf.Objective() 2011 this week and you're interested in becoming open source contribute, please join our un-official hackfest.

Enlist is an open source and free application that aims to help non-profits organize volunteers, track volunteer hours and management volunteer rewards.  The HackFest aims to build a functional application that could be leveraged by non-profit organizations to better manage and track everything to do with volunteers. The idea came forth after  Peter Farrell volunteered for a Team Ortho event and noticed that all volunteer hours were being tracked on spreadsheets. These spreadsheets were used to generate volunteer reward "bones" (points) in which volunteers could use to enter Team Ortho race events or purchase running gear.

All you need to start is to find Matt, Kurt or me at cf.Objective() and get a contributor account:

• Peter J. Farrell - project leader - peter [at] mach-ii.com


• Kurt Wiersma - team leader - kurt [at] mach-ii.com


• Matt Woodward - team leader - matt [at] mach-ii.com

Hope you see you there.  This is a unique opportunity at conferences.  We promise you'll learn a lot!

 

Mala Injured...

Looks like a call to Dr. Restring tomorrow...

ColdFusion Weekly - Advice from the Past

Matt and I decied to move the ColdFusion Weekly to an archive on Posterous this week.  So I decided to listen to our last show while we ere chatting on IM and this little gem came across my ears.  I decided to transcribe it because it's worth it's weight in gold.  Bear in mind that this show is from June 2008 which is nearly three years ago.  I guess things haven't changed at all.

Matt: This timing is kinda interesting with the growing pains that are going on right now. It is obviously with all the open source going on, very - as people know from stuff I said -- it's a great time to be a CFML developer. We all need to figure this stuff out together. Some of the final things I'd like to say is that I hope that after people calm down a bit and that everybody can just be nice to each other. I'll just say that...

Peter: You know there is plenty of space out there.  We're not fighting for same square foot of land...

Matt: Yea, and the CFML community has always been a great community and we will continue to do that...  The other thing I'm starting to realize is and that is probably why you'll see me participating in blog comments less... I'm getting to the point with that a lot of people are say things that they might not otherwise say to you if you were in person...

Peter: Yea, whether your name is attached to your comment or not, there is a little additional bit of anonymity when it comes to commenting -- even if your name is there... just because you don't have to deal with somebody getting up in your face.

Matt: Right, so I guess I would say -- try to think about as if you were talking with people in person.  There is a lot of misunderstanding because of text communication -- everybody knows this -- there is no nuance to it and you don't know how people are delivering that message.  This is just one of the things that causes things to spin out of control like they have a bit recently.  Like I said, it's a fantastic time to be in this [CFML] world.  It's only going to get better for everybody involved.

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