Category: Linux
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Yep, I’m a hacker
So, recently I started putting together a home music server. I got all the basics up without too much hassle, but didn’t get around actually installing music collection. After getting back to it, I quickly figured out that the raspberry pi doesn’t put out enough current on its USB ports to drive a 2.5″ spinning…
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Music server on the cheap
I used to keep all my music on my mac, but after downsizing to a smaller (but zillion times faster) SSD drive, I can’t seem to jam everything in any more. So, I’ve been using a portable 500Gb USB drive to keep my music. Gets the job done, but even though its small, its hassle…
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Setting gnome-do summon binding on Ubuntu 14.04
There’s a bug somewhere with gnome-do‘s key binding set up interface. It wouldn’t let me set <Control>space as for the summons action (which I’ve used pretty much since the down of time, or at least as long as I’ve been using Quicksilver on Mac.) At first I thought it was a conflict with an existing…
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Another Stop on Road to VIM Mastery
command-t Quick file searching. Similar to Fast Open in Komodo. Installation is slightly annoying (needs ruby and ruby-dev to configure, and c compiler to build.)
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Next Stop on Road to VIM mastery
Nerdcommenter Language specific block comments. Oh, yeah, that’s much better.
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Sacrilege!
Running Win8 style window decorations on my Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu. Flat is the new black.
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Not the Legos I had when I was a kid…
Upcoming Lego Mindstorms EV3 to include iOS support | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Want!
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Fixing 2 Factor Authentication for Google Talk in Pidgin
After noticing that my contact list in Pidgin was a lot shorter than usual, I figured out that I wasn’t connecting to Google Talk anymore. Some where along the line, I forgot to update my Pidgin account settings for 2 factor authentication . Wasn’t super clear how to do that, but SuperUser set me straight:…
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Like an iMac, but Ubuntu.
Meet The $799 All-in-One Ubuntu PC from System76 | OMG! Ubuntu! Pretty nice, but I don’t see them moving a lot of them at that price point.
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Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10
Prefer GNOME Shell? Download Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog. Another way to get the Ubuntu you know and love, minus that frigging Unity crap.