Category: Linux

Leaving KDE

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After being a loyal fan of KDE for a long time, I've just left...

Gutsy woes

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I upgraded to Gutsy RC last week, and I've really had nothing but trouble, and submitted lots of bugs...

Facebook broken in Konqueror

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At the end of the day, contrary to what many web developers and browser writers would like you to believe, quality and standards compliance mean nothing. The only thing that matters is market share.

Sharing internet connection to chroot

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How to share an internet connection to a chroot'ed system (or, using Knoppix to get into another Linux system which you can't boot directly for some reason).

Mature Wine

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I have been more and more impressed with Wine recently...

Configuring Samba in KDE, with Kubuntu Feisty

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A combination of bugs in KDE/Samba/Feisty makes the simple task of configuring Samba to share a folder (in this case to share it with myself, for the benefit of some virtual machines) much harder than it ought to have been

Edgy, Feisty, and Pheenet WLU-703Z

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I spent an unprofitable afternoon trying to get a new wireless USB adapter to work under Ubuntu Edgy, but Feisty did the trick beautifully.

Portable computer

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More adventures in not having my computer with me...

Replacement dos box for Windows - emacs shell mode

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The Windows dos box (command prompt) sucks in many ways in comparison to an xterm (and I'm not even including 'command' vs 'bash' here). But if you have emacs you can make it suck a little bit less. "M-x shell" gets you shell mode, and you can select text etc, and use emacs keybindings for editing your commands etc.

bacKing up

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Boring post about backing up tools in KDE

Wajig is da bomb

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I discovered `wajig `_ for Debian, and it's great...

SimplyMEPIS

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I'm currently installing SimplyMEPIS on my old machine. And using it to blog at the same time...

Uptime

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My broadband internet connection has held up for a month now..

iTunes for Linux

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It really bugged me that there was no iTunes for Linux, and despite searching high and low, there is no decent alternative that works on Linux - a simple way of buying a single track online. Until now...

Ubuntu and Win4Lin

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Finally got round to getting Win4Lin working, with a few hassles...

Subversion on AMD64

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A warning for anyone switching to a 64-bit architecture (such as AMD64) from a 32-bit: Subversion repositories have to be migrated...

Automount gotchas

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I insert a CD, and watch as it is automatically mounted (good!). I check it's MD5SUM, then eject. Only it won't...

Fun with 64-bit Linux

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I found there is no way to get Win4Lin running on my 64-bit kernel, so I'm looking at the alternatives...

Mandrake firewall fixed

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I finally found some good info on how the firewall works in Mandrake..

Networking fun

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Since I now have two computers, it's time to start messing around with networking them...

LP Phone Home

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When I'm away from my computer, sometimes it would be really useful to be able to access it. I've only got a dial-up connection...