Sojourn of the Mind

Today there has been an update to The Brain software. The beta software adds a lot of useful features that can directly translate to your productivity. You can read more about the features in the release notes which can be found here.

Some of the features that I like are as follows:

• Ability to import Word outlines.
• New way to copy pictures in to your notes gives me the ability to use the software for research.
• Better navigation and new view types.
• Expandability to the calendar.
• Keyboard commands can now be used and assigned to most of the menu items.
• Improved tags. Tags is the one feature that adds a whole dimension to The Brain software.
• And many, many more.

Take a look but please backup your brains as once opened you can not go back.

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If you are doing an update on Pam you might run in to an error after Pam is updated. This error showed its ugly head when I updated to Pam Version 1.0.4 (under 64 bit). The error exhibits when a group or an Id needs to be automatically (or manually) added to the system with

groupadd fails @ Pam: Authentication failed error

Or something similar. The problem exists because PAM does not pull in Pambase as part of its install. Bug ID  259954 has been filed for this. The short term solution is to manually emerge Pambase and then continue with the emerge.

Tags: 64 bit, emerge, error, Gentoo, Linux, pam, pambase
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4.2 KDE has been the standard as part of a few KDE based Linux distributions. But if you would like to install it as part of  Gentoo you have to take a few steps to get it installed. The full documentation exists at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml#doc_chap2. There are a few highlights that I would like to mention here.

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A software comes around once in a while that wen originally viewed is looked at as nothing more then a toy, but when fully used and utilized after some time becomes the best software ever.

The Brain Personal (http://www.thebrain.com) is just that kind of software. I have been using it for at least 6 years now and have gone through the whole evolution of the software. While looking like a fancy toy this software lets you create links and thoughts for the way you think and work. No it is not a gimmick if you actually take the time to learn the software that is exactly what it does (A little more on that later).

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