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  • 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 playing at my linux desktop. But I had a problems with it: I kept getting intermittent lagging. A little notice would pop up in the bottom left…

  • 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 (All settings | Keyboard | Shortcuts). However, I have at times run into the feeling that these settings were only superficially customizable. Some keybindings would keep working…

  • 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 said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

  • Alphanumericalize: Filename munging music file names in ABCDE

    Rip-roaring and rigorous

  • 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 I’ve got various things for my eyes only. Matt Mullenweg is quoted somewhere saying that he can with great certainty instantly recognise a WordPress site and I…

  • 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 issues I was having (“Why do I get redirected to XYZ when I’m trying to reach ABC?”) but it made me understand much better how NGINX uses…

  • 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 cons article. Currently for me the cons just outweigh the pros and when an upgrade broke Gnome badly, well it was time to leave. I bought a…

  • Resurrecting imwheel

    Xmouse for Windows is brilliant. And it makes a mockery of any linux desktop user’s claim to having the more customizable user environment. Well at least as far as pointers go. What Xmouse does is allow you to intercept any mouse action and translate it into any sort of user interaction, be that simply another…

  • Everything in it’s Right Place 4: Launch and switch

    This is the fourth post in a series on achieving an orderly desktop environment in GNOME 3, using no add-ons, only old school hacks. See also the first, second and third post in the series. Following the first two set of instructions we’ve got static workspaces and windows spawn where they should. That in itself…

  • Arch Linux: The Review Pros and Cons

    Linux distribution reviews are a regular feature of linux journalism. Twice a year a new Ubuntu release sees the light of day and sometimes they are deemed worthy of writeups depending on how ‘big’ the release is, and also-probably how slow the newsday is. I suspect most people don’t read them as ‘consumer guide’ reviews…

  • Everything in it’s Right Place 3: Setting dedicated workspaces with devil’s pie

    This is the third post in a series on achieving an orderly desktop environment in GNOME 3, using no add-ons, only old school hacks. See also the first and the second post in the series. Dedicated workspaces is a term – possibly – of my own invention. Possibly not. The basic idea was outlined in…

  • Arachnophobia: Getting the macro keys on the Razer BlackWidow to work on linux

    I bought the Razer BlackWidow for the hardware, not for Razer’s Synapse software or all the joys that it offers (Google suggest for searchers entering Razer Synapse? “Razer Synapse sucks”) Which meant that I was perfectly content not to use any of the special function keys on the keyboard. However the thought hit me that…

  • Everything in it’s Right Place 2: Setting static workspaces

    This is the second post in a series on achieving an orderly desktop environment in GNOME 3, using no add-ons, only old school hacks. See also the first post in the series. In the previous post I laid out the requirements for my ideal desktop. In the following I’m going to explain how I go…

  • Everything In It’s Right Place 1: My idea of a proper desktop

    I’m working on polishing a collection of minor desktop hacks that will transform my Gnome Shell experience into something more palatable than vanilla. In preparation for an article on how best to achieve these goals I wrote down the following as a sort of vision and mission statement for the project. The how-tos will appear…

  • Gratification: Instant vs. delayed

    I have spent most of the day, trying to get a very rudimentary mail server setup working, using a number of wikis, guides and tutorials. Some work better than others. What they all get wrong is in ignoring the users need to see something, anything working before having sunk a day into the project. Ars…