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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On the heels of WordPress 2.0, 2.01 is out. 2.0 made a lot of backend and admin changes. 2.01 looks to be mostly bug fixes. Bloggeriffica!
Put this in your .vimrc: :if has(“terminfo”) : set t_Co=16 : set t_AB=Esc[%?%p1%{8}%< %t%p1%{40}%+%e%p1%{92}%+%;%dm : set t_AF=Esc[%?%p1%{8}%< %t%p1%{30}%+%e%p1%{82}%+%;%dm :else : set t_Co=16 : set t_Sf=Esc[3%dm : set t_Sb=Esc[4%dm :endif (Note: the Esc's should be replaced with a real Esc (Ctrl-v Esc).) This should give you sixteen-color support if you are using an xterm (or a [...]
After digging a bit, I found this. I was looking to download a Firefox 1.5 rpm for Fedora that was not RC3, but 1.5 “final”. All that I was able to find was RC3 rpms. Seems to me that this type of info should be put on the main Firefox Release Notes page. So I [...]
Because folks in South Africa have limited or nonexistent Interweb access, these guys came up with a vending machine solution to make Open Source Software more accesible. The Freedom Toaster will burn a CD or DVD (that you provide) containing your favorite Linux distro (and some other OSS), hot and fresh, and at no cost [...]
Whelp, my stuff is back online again. I decided to upgrade from Redhat 9 to Fedora Core 4. Instead of migrating everything, I decided to start from scratch. After researching, I figured I would be better off in the long run re-installing. I had a lot of fluff on this box that I needed to [...]
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