I recently had a hard drive go bad on me which actually turned out to be a motherboard going bad. The hard drive may be fine but I don’t want to take any chances, and anyway, you can buy 1 terabyte now for about $70 US. There was definitely something goofy going on with access [...]

Information on changing the default Gnome terminal size is out there but it is scattered and scarce. I have two 20 inch monitors. The default size (80×24) is too small. Here’s how you can change the default. This applies to all launchers, menu items, and keyboard shortcuts: Run gconf-editor Open desktop → gnome → applications [...]