Posts tagged: linux

And that's partly because Ubuntu has become such a disaster. If only I could find reliable drivers for my GPU on any other linux distribution, I'd never go back to it.

Here are some quick and dirty steps to include an animation in a pdf file. Note that not all pdf readers will support rendering the animation and many of them will show just a static image (likely...

On my keyboard I have two annoying keys right next to the arrow keys that go to previous/next page and I've always used them accidentally and have lost my drafts. Here is how I'm going to remap them...

So I have this bunch of music on my external hard drive that is connected to my PC at home and I need to get over there to play it while I'm at home, but that's usually a hassle, well, to some...

I remembered that I can use pidgin! I don't know what I haven't been using it for a while. But now that I've installed it again, I went and downloaded yahoo smilies (from here) and the according to...

Try the good ghostscript:

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Let's say you want to watch a lecture on youtube and you need to also visit some of the links mentioned in the description or read some of the references, but you can't do them all online. Of course...

When I was at WIU I had this website on their server that I had to maintain through their sftp server. It's been a while I have forgotten how to connect to do it. So, I am rediscovering it step by...

So, Danny pointed out this website and asked if one can write a script to do this on a computer. Here is what I came up with:

Here I'm going to collect my attempts at installing and using spotify client on fedora 22.

There are several times that I just want to jot down something and I don't have time to open a note, or I don't want it to get lost somewhere, or I don't want to decide where to save the file and...

There are times that I feel lazy to open a new tab in my firefox to search for something or a youtube video, even though I have tags for every important thing that I use commonly. For example if my...

- I use my tablet to write with its pen quite a lot, whether for taking notes, annotating a pdf file, or teaching. Here is a nice little script that I've made to get the screen to rotate and disable...

So, this is too long, I'm gonna just make a new post for it. When I connect the tablet to a projector, due to change of resolution the pen is not calibrated any more. I've tried xinputcalibrator to...

And while I'm at it, let me get this post started. A lot of times it happens that I have to work on a windows machine for a period of time. While I'm still trying to figure out how to get rid of the...

There are several things that I need to do on a monthly or yearly basis on my laptop in order to fix some problems. So far, I googled the problem and tried the solutions one by one, until I reached...