I tend to use screenshots a lot when I do instant messaging, since they tend to help explaining things much better – and faster than raw text in many situations. It’s very rare I need to actually edit the screenshot, and in these rare occasions, It doesn’t bother me to fire up something like Pinta [...]
Categories: Script-fu
Tagged: bash, linux, programming, screenshot
Warning: Biased content follows. Scroll down if you just want to skip to my wise words. One year ago, I started coding for real again. I dumped wasting times on stupid games and so on. I like building websites, so I started by going back to the roots. HTML & CSS which I had coded [...]
Categories: Me
Tagged: arch, bash, experience, php, programming, python, ruby
A few days ago I was set off to create my first RubyGem. There are many resources on how to do this, but it took me a good while to gather all the information I figured I’d need for my application, so I’ve decided to gather my bit of knowledge in this article. This article’s [...]
Categories: Guides
A few weeks ago, I ran into some trouble with my earphone controls for my iPhone. They suddenly stopped working, meaning I could not go to the next song, or pause directly from the controls on the wire, as I was used to doing this, it frustrated me a lot. Luckily, the fix was extremely [...]
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Until not-so-long ago, I always had a million terminals open at the same time. I have this neat keyboard-shortcut (Alt-T) which opens a new terminal. That’s nice and all, but the problem is, that I can’t be arsed to alt-tab to my old terminals, leaving a million terminals open, making alt-tabbing between other applications a [...]
Categories: Script-fu
Tagged: bash, linux, programming, terminal
After about 8 months with Ubuntu, I decided it was time for change. I had for a while wanted to switch to some other distribution, not really because I did not like Ubuntu, more because I wanted to learn more about Linux, and try something new. And I felt Ubuntu limited me in this matter. [...]
Categories: Me
Tagged: arch, experience, linux, os, ubuntu
In both Ubuntu Jaunty and Ubuntu Karmic I’ve had trouble with the internet, actually also when I was running Fedora. It was unstable, I could go to sites, but it took a good while to look up the host (according to Chrome). It had periods where it was good, usually short ones, and periods where [...]
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I’ve known Dropbox for very long. I found it nice that it provided the service it did, however – I like to have things automated, I didn’t want to “Drop” my files there manually all the time. That was time consuming, and I would forget to do it – and then when I’d need that [...]
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When I for the first time wanted to try out Linux, I couldn’t at first glance find a simple guide on how to dual-boot Windows and Linux. So I decided to write a quick simple guide for you, to give an overview of how to create your own dual boot system. You should have the [...]
Categories: Guides