One of the things that has annoyed me with Nvidia’s Twinview utility is that it doesn’t recognize if you swap external monitors (or at least I couldn’t figure out how to make it do this). I use an external monitor at work and at home, but they are different resolutions. Typically what I do is [...]
I saw this link that solved my problem. For me, it was noticeable whenever I had BZFlag active and some other application generated a sound. Glad to have this annoying glitch out of the way.
This is one of those things I only do occasionally, so here’s a note on how to do it. rpm2cpio rpmarchive.rpm | cpio -idmv This should extract the entire rpm into the current dir, so make sure you are in a clean dir before you do this. The rpm2cpio command should be available on any [...]
Some months ago, launched a huge, DRM-free catalog of songs and albums available in MP3 format. Now they have released their download client for Linux in native formats for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and OpenSUSE. The client is not required to download individual songs, but only for entire albums. I’ve already downloaded a couple of albums [...]
I stumbled upon this invaluable gem: http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/how_to_linux_and_open_source.htm It is a page of over 200 tips and tricks for all sorts of *nix and opensource goodies, like this: TIP 70: Generating Random Numbers. $ od -vAn -N4 -tu4 < /dev/urandom 3905158199 This guide is full of stuff that you may only do occasionally but you can [...]
On FC5 (don’t have FC6 yet), if you don’t have the rpm for “koffice-filters” installed, you won’t be able to open up anything except native Krita files. I believe that these filters are packaged separately because they are maintained separately from Krita, since they are used by other KOffice applications. Makes sense if you think [...]
Need to make multiple PDFs into one? Here is an easy way to do it with Ghostscript: gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf After scanning a few documents, I converted the resulting individual PNGs into PDFs and then used the command above to make a single, multi-page PDF. Here’s a few other apps [...]
Here is an ingenious method for freeing your junk-o-riffic printer that you got with your new Dell Super-Fantastic-Overpriced-Home-Computer Bundle of DRM. I’m optimistic that this method will also work for any DRM-crippled device as well.
This excellent article from The Register is an excellent reason not to use Winblows. Even though its a few years old, it is (unfortunately for MS users) still relevant. And not much has changed in three years on the MS front…
From CNET News.com: …The Microsoft chairman told a group of reporters at a press conference in Lisbon that the tax agency needs special computers to handle his returns “because their normal computers can’t deal with the numbers,” according to a report by the Agence France-Presse news wire… “Special computers”? What the hell does that mean? [...]
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