GNU PDF project
I don't want to install wine and PDF XChange viewer just because it has some odd behaviour on linux. Scrolling does not work well at all. I wish the GNU PDF project would speed up and release the GNU Juggler http://www.…
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Crunchbang install notes
Just so I can keep track of the configuration changes I am making that messes up my system, I am going to post a running list here. Starting from a brand new install: Started with crunchbang for 64 bit systems: * Downlo…
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Arrgh, what's wrong now?!
Seriously, I can't seem to catch a break with my linux troubles. It's been hardly 14 days since my fresh install and things are already starting to act up with Crunchbang. The stylus goes on insane object and text selec…
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Sound card on PanP7
For reference the sound card on my PanP7 is: cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec Codec: Realtek ALC272 Codec: Motorola Si3054 It has the most crappy output with ALSA sound server. The front mic used with a mic bo…
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Bash History!
Can be accessed through the command: history Kewl. It's kind of nifty how my earliest history is a nice documentation of everything I did post-clean-install of Crunchbang (and would like to do for future installs). [quo…
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Install R on debian without an internet connection.
R needs all these packages to install on debian. So essentially, if my /var/cache/apt/archives/ had these packages already then it wouldn't need to download anything from the net. With these packages already there, R wo…
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Pipe it through
somecommand goes here > some output goes here For example: ls > filename lists all names in that directory in a neat little text file called "filename" (that doesn't even need an extension because linux *just knows*(tm)…
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Niftay linux Alt+Right Click Resize
I just found that I could resize all windows by pressing Alt+Right Click and totally do away with the annoying practice of carefully hovering over window margins and waiting for the resize arrow to appear. Sweet!
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Crunchbang Take 2
Conky's gone. So has the upper bar with active windows. Instead the right side panel has everything I need. The rest is via the right click menu.
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PDF on Linux
So there are some amazing tools on linux for pdf manipulation and I am super glad that none of them involve Adobe's evil little tools. If you want to cut out pages or manipulate PDFs in any way, there is no other tool a…
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Crunchbang home
I migrated from Fedora 15 to Crunchbang once more, and hopefully for good this time. I had to deal with one-too-many hangs and quirks and finally gave up. Having had to stare at the clock all the time, not being able to…
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Learning about linux by dissecting packages
What makes a flawless efficient productive system? What goes into all those small things that make sticking to one OS easier than the other? What is behind those simple little tricks that you get used to in one OS that …
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Netinstall debian with XFCE
With my continuing troubles and hiccups with Gnome 3 on Fedora 15, I am sorely tempted to migrate to this: (From omnsproject blog: http://omnsproject.org/?p=1179) Clean and minimalist netinstall Debian with XFCE 4.8 fea…
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My pretty Linux box
This is what I see 50% of the time I start Skype with Fedora 15. :/ I have no option but to do an ungraceful hard reboot.
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How do I get rid of the titlebar in Gnome 3?
When the title of the program is on the never-disappearing top panel and the title bar just has an [X] on it (that I seldom use), why do I even need a title bar? I have keyboard shortcuts for everything, there is no poi…
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Top five gnome 3 annoyances
that I haven't figured out how to fix. (Solved whines are marked and in blue.) # Hot corner and dock are on the left: I am RIGHT HANDED dammit. So are a majority of people in the world. Stop pandering to left-handers or…
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Flash for Fedora 15 (64bit) in Chrome
Hey e:Paul, did you install the beta version of the flash player from the Adobe labs website here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11/ It's a tarball... Update: The new beta from Adob…
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Compiling RTL8191SEvB Drivers on Fedora15
DID IT! Many thanks go out to e:Paul and Andy Grimm from the Fedora Project who messaged me a few days back to say that RTL8191SEvB does work with Fedora15 and offered to help. For those of you who are stuck with this o…
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In praise of Fedora and Gnome 3.
I have switched! Thanks to some super-human effort by e:paul, I am finally on planet Fedora and being awed by Gnome 3. How superawesome is it that you can just start keying in ANYTHING that comes to your mind and if its…
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Issue With Fedora 15 Terminal Transparency in Gnome 3
It has been making me absolutely crazy that since I switched to Fedora 15, Gnome 3 I lost my terminal transparency due to a bug in Mutter which caused the drop shadow of windows to be opaque. The bug report was filed wi…
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Greppetty Grep
Another set of commands I need to burn into my brain: Find all files in the current directory that contain blah in their file names * ls |grep blah Wildcards in grep: all files that start with a b and end in a g with ON…
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The TermKit Philosophy
I read with interest this nifty commentary by Steven Wittens on his extreme redesign of the concept of the bland linux terminal. One of the Unix principles is nobly called "Least Surprise", but in practice, from having …
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Purge Purge Purge
I need to remember these four commands Purges configuration files. * sudo apt-get purge PACKAGENAME Purges dependencies * sudo apt-get --purge autoremove Finds any stragglers * find / -iname '*PACKAGENAME*' Purge config…
