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Everything in it’s Right Place 5: Toggles or Now you see it, now you don’t

This is the fifth and final post in a series on achieving an orderly desktop environment in GNOME 3, using no add-ons, only old school hacks. See also…

Post date April 4, 2015
Post categories In Desktop

NetworkManager and intermittent lags in Steam Home-streaming

Steam in-home streaming is great. I can play graphics/CPU intensive games on my laptop sitting on my couch. Or I can let the (Windows) laptop run Spelunky while…

Post date March 30, 2015
Post categories In Desktop
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Why GNOME keybindings silently resist customization

Note: This relates GNOME Shell 3.10 in Ubuntu 14.04. Other versions may differ and YMMV. The keybindings of GNOME Shell can be changed using the system settings windows…

Post date March 29, 2015
Post categories In Desktop

The first bit

I was wondering how to explain the concept of a ‘bit’ when the thought struck me that we have a perfect illustration in Genesis, chapter 1: 3 And God…

Post date March 22, 2015
Post categories In Linux

Alphanumericalize: Filename munging music file names in ABCDE

Rip-roaring and rigorous

Post date March 21, 2015
Post categories In Desktop, Linux
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Is Bolt CMS more than just WordPress Lite?

I’ve got blogs and I’ve got blogs. That is to say, I’ve got three public facing blogs (this one, one on gaming and one general themed) and then…

Post date March 10, 2015
Post categories In Linux

NGINX for humans

Readable documentation on NGINX configuration is scarce. So finding something good is a genuine cause for celebration. This Digital Ocean piece on location blocks didn’t directly address the…

Post date March 10, 2015
Post categories In Server

Ubuntu Revisited: Back in Brown with 14.04 Trusty Tahr

My pseudo-review of Arch made me realize that it wasn’t the right distribution for me anymore. Not really a critique as should be evident from the pros and…

Post date February 21, 2015
Post categories In Desktop