Category: Linux

TIL, you can easily change the password for a previously defined ssh public key. ssh-keygen -p -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa I mistakenly added a password because I thought it was required and have been typing …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Nerdcommenter Language specific block comments. Oh, yeah, that’s much better.

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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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 …

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.

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.

hmm, somehow, when I wasn’t looking, they wedged chat into the Thunderbird email client. Will have to investigate, if I can tear myself away from OSX’s Messages app.

I bought my brother an hp printer/copier/fax for xmas (from newegg.com for $39, shipped; stupid Shell Shocker deals.) Between the time I bought the unit and when he got around to unboxing, I also cut …

Quick update today. Got printing to work. After some googling around, I found lots of advice that the gnome printer config utility was pretty flaky, I blew away my existing CUPS config (generated by …

Last night, I had two tasks for my FC5 project: Get a Parallels VM machine for Windows XP rolling.Seemed to kick off OK after having to remember how to use Parallels’ VM setup utility. A false start …

I’d love to ditch XP completely, but I still have a few things that I need windows for. My master plan is to run FC5 as the primary OS and use XP in a Parallels virtual machine. I’ve messed around …

Monday, I took a day off to concentrate on some chores that never seem to make it off my to do list. On of which was replacing the OS harddrive in my primary PC at home before its impending failure. …