Category Archives: Software

Tumbleweed/Skype

Posted on March 26, 2013 by

Not sure this is worthy of a blog post, but here goes, maybe it’ll help someone, you never know. Replaced my openSUSE 12.3 repos with Tumbleweed repos, rolling release, hopefully never install again! Tumbleweed how to. Skype did not work … Continue reading →

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openSUSE 12.3 KDE ~ Lenovo E325

Posted on March 20, 2013 by

Manfully struggled all day (much cursing!) to get Open SUSE 12.3 installed, the best implementation of KDE to date, on my Lenovo E325. Xubuntu had a nasty network bug where it would kick itself off the network taking everything else with it. … Continue reading →

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Parabolic Reflector

Posted on October 21, 2012 by

Check out this Parabolic Template.  Using just printable white card, tin foil, scissors, a craft knife & Pritt Stick, you can improve your wireless reception.  The tin foil only needs gluing to rectangular section alone.  Mounted to your routers aerial (or … Continue reading →

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Overheating Talk Talk Supplied DSL-2640R

Posted on October 15, 2012 by

So then, my old Talk Talk router was kinda grumpy, refusing & dropping connections on a whim.  I’d go online with my laptop while my tower slept, resume from tower, no connection without rebooting router.  Having a guest stay, I’d be in … Continue reading →

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Xubuntu Chromium Prompts Unlock Keyring

Posted on September 23, 2012 by

Quash an annoying annoyance! https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1022322 The file causing the problem is /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop . So: sudo leafpad /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop The line: OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity should be changed to OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;XFCE

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iPhone 5 Madness

Posted on September 22, 2012 by

OK. People are entitled to like Apple, hell, I like Linux. But it’s provided at no cost to the user. I would not say it is “free” as clearly a lot of blood sweat & tears go into making it … Continue reading →

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Amazon Cloud Player

Posted on September 22, 2012 by

Now then… Amazon introduce their Cloud Player, breaking Banshee’s Amazon MP3 integration. It really was an iTunes killer for me, but hey? Life sucketh. It remains to be seen if the dev’s have anything up their sleeves, but their hands … Continue reading →

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XFCE 4.10

Posted on September 8, 2012 by

Installed the latest & greatest window manager via PPA?  Broken your system?  4.10 is not supported by  Canonical.  Uninstall as of Xubuntu’s Google+ page: sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10  

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Caffeine; Screensaver Inhibit Applet For Xubuntu

Posted on September 7, 2012 by

Been looking for just this, for ages!  Sits in the system tray ready to activate on left click, in fact, be sure to check options for auto enable for Flash content & app auto start at login.  Just download the … Continue reading →

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Working Against The Flow

Posted on August 18, 2012 by

Now then… I wanted to use compact title bar & borders under Chromium on my laptop (XFCE), & system title bar & borders under Chrome on my tower (GNOME.)  After endlessly switching both, I figure Chrome is syncing settings between both … Continue reading →

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