Tag Archive: linux
Nautilus and Subversion
I knew, that I could add Subversion support to Nautilus (similar to TortoiseSVN) using the nautilus-script-collection-svn package, but it didn’t seem to do anything. The context menus in Nautilus weren’t any different after installing package. Today, I finally figured out…
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Software Freedom Day
Who would have thought… From simply asking someone here at uni regarding a room booking, I’m now helping organizing Software Freedom Day here at uni. Well, I wanted to get more involved with WLUG here anyway. 😉
Giving Oracle the boot
I had a bad feeling when Oracle bought Sun back then in regards to MySQL. But considering how they behaved in regards to OpenOffice and their community ([1], [2]), I decided to give Oracle the boot and switch from OpenOffice…
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Don’t like aubergine?
To be honest, as much as I like the new Ubuntu 10.04 release, I can’t stand two things: the window buttons (min/max/close) on the left hand side the aubergine login screen But that can be fixed quite easily: window buttons…
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Encrypted external HD
For quite some time, I’ve been using a completely encrypted hard drive on my laptop, keeping it (to some degree) safe from prying eyes, in case the laptop should get stolen. Having a regular, automated backup, makes one worry less…
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MSI Wind U100 – Take two
Some time ago, I upgraded my Ubuntu 9.04 on my MSI Wind U100 work netbook to 9.10. Man, what a mistake: USB stopped working Once you unplugged the mouse that was plugged in during booting the netbook, it was gone….
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A graphical frontend for pyPdf
A couple of weeks ago, I needed to join two PDFs together in one. And I was rather disappointed being unable to find a graphical frontend for command-line tools like pdftk for Linux. When I came across the Python library…
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Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04
Hmm… Looks like upgrading from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 (64-bit) went not only rather smooth (just two minor hiccups with apparmor profiles), but also there don’t seem to be any side-effects. I was a bit afraid upgrading my machine, since…
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