Tag: how-to
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KDE help: ‘KDE lost my widget!’
Recently I was arranging widgets on my dual screens when I tried to drag one from one monitor to the other. I dropped it where I wanted it to go, and was surprised to see it wasn’t there. No matter, I thought. I opened the widget panel to add it again and was confused to…
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My Favourite Linux Commands
As a child of the DOS era, I’ve always been comfortable communicating with a computer without a mouse. Most of my use of Linux is via a desktop environment (KDE and Xfce are my favourites), but I still like to be able to do certain tasks in a terminal window. Here’s a list of commands…
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KDE help: LibreOffice icons missing in KDE menu?
Recently, I noticed that the Writer icon had disappeared from the favourites tab of my K menu. Naturally, I right clicked and used the Edit Applications function to reset the icon back to normal by finding it in the system icons. There was no problem finding the icon, but as soon as I set it,…
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KDE help: Kubuntu Oneiric Won’t Shut Down Anymore?
I’m really loving Kubuntu 11.10. As usual, I upgraded during the beta phase to avoid the slow downloads after the official release. It was a flawless upgrade: the best I can remember. I even did it using the wireless connection, with no significant hiccups… except this one I hardly noticed. I rarely need to reboot…
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Unlimited Gmail aliases
A helpful tip from Google, if you didn’t know about this already: Gmail doesn’t offer traditional aliases, but you can receive messages sent to [email protected]. For example, messages sent to [email protected] are delivered to [email protected]. You can set up filters to automatically direct these messages to Trash, apply a label or star, skip the inbox,…
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Building an RT Twitterbot
Creating a ReTweeting Twitterbot used to be easy. My colleague Peter Smith originally pointed me towards Tweetalert, a service which scanned Twitter Search for the hashtag of your choice, then retweeted the associated posts via your own Twitter account, or another you’d created for that specific purpose. This is how the GCPEDIA and GCconnex Twitter…
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Do-It-Yourself Degree Milling for Fun and… well, Just Fun
When I was younger, I liked to hang my degrees up in my office. I suppose that until I had a well established sense of identity and self worth, those framed bit of paper helped me feel like I belonged in the world of professionals. While they still have some importance to me—primarily as legal…
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Enabling MMS streams in Firefox
If you’re sick of seeing “MMS is not a registered protocol” when trying to view streaming content, here’s the fix (compiled from a few half-correct or half-clear descriptions from around the net). I use Debian Linux with the KDE desktop, but this should work so long as you’ve got Firefox and Kaffeine installed. Mplayer or…
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How To Speak Tamarian
Too stupid to learn Klingon? Relax! Have you been rejected by the Über-nerds at Star Trek Conventions? Rejoice! Tamarian is the language spoken by the Children of Tamar, first heard in the episode “Darmok” from the fifth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Unlike traditional earth speech, it relies on metaphor and allegory to…