Illustrator Gradient Color Pick

So, there's one (of many) nightmare about Adobe's Illustrator. It's a great software really, but it has some downfalls, too. This one's about picking your gradient color. But not from sliders (which I rarely use) but from the color plane.

1. Select a shape with gradient fill.

2. Select the slider you want to change.

3. Now forget about the Colors pane (but you can use swatch color if you'll hold Alt key when picking the color) and double-click the Fill color at the bottom of the Toolbox.

4. Select your obscure desired color (and yes, you can type in those HTML color codes) and ... there's no "and", that's just it!!

Samuel Adams' Quote

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."

- Samuel Adams, debates of 1776

PowerShell: Calling Functions from File

Ugh, I've been struggling a lot with this easy stuff. There's a method called dot-sourcing which I've read about few months ago but I can't find it now. All those .{name.ps1} {function} and similar just drove me mad. Now I finally know :-) ! So this is basically a reminder:

We have file called a.ps1 and it's contents are:

function hello {
write-host "Hello"
}

And now we want to call that function from powershell. We have to load that file (think of a library):
. .\a.ps1 (that's dot, space, path-to-file)
and then we can call the function itself:
hello

And that's it :-D

Debian Stable -> Testing

Was updating my VirtualBox Debian machine for Etch to Lenny. The upgrade was error free, so I can now update my regular Debian box. Must admit that I've been expecting some minor bugs (just as when I was dist-upgrading Ubuntu).

Synergy

On my quest for finding quality software, I ran into great one called Synergy. It's developed under GPL, it's open source and it lets you do one thing you've always wanted to if you have more than one computer on your desk.
Synergy (through server-client communication) lets you control all your computers with one keyboard and mouse independently on what type of OS they run. Picture is worth a thousand words and video is worth a billion words. Take a look (I know - this video is not THAT interesting, but it demonstrates the possibilities really well):

Yesterday afternoon fun

HTC Touch Cube Contacts name display..

If you have HTC Touch (or any other similar device with TouchFlo), you may have the same problem as I did. Even if I assigned picture to contact, the still displayed (despite of what is written in the manual).
To fix this, grab some Registry Editor (I'm using the mobile version of Total Commander , which has registry sneaking built-in), go to HKLM\Software\HTC\QuickDial\config key and change the value for EnableNameBar from 1 to 0.