Monthly Archives: January 2010

Debian/Ubuntu Package Installation Shortcut

Posted on January 16, 2010 by nocnokneo

Alt-F2 then type

Simple, quick, and should work in any window manager. Just remember that package names are case sensitive and almost always lowercase. Here’s an example where I install XBMC: Then just click Install: This example is with Ubuntu’s … Continue reading →

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Synergy for HTPC control

Posted on January 16, 2010 by nocnokneo

Synergy. Great app. Synergy for HTPC control. Great application. Setup is pretty simple, but the Synergy HOWTO on the Ubuntu Community Documentation was pretty horrendous. I decided I’d give back a little and did a major clean up/rewrite of it … Continue reading →

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Waking Up is Hard to Do

Posted on January 15, 2010 by nocnokneo

Since I couldn’t possibly write it any better, this is plagarized from the user page of a random Gnome developer: 2:00 AM: Set alarm for 10 am (physical switch) 2:03 AM: Tape piece of paper over alarm with the text … Continue reading →

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Better FOSS QA Testing

Posted on January 13, 2010 by nocnokneo

I just had a random thought when I came across the following in the Changelog for VirtualBox 3.1: Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don’t interpret mouse wheel events as left click (bug #5049) This seems like something basic that … Continue reading →

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Easy, automated backups with rdiff-backup

Posted on January 12, 2010 by nocnokneo

Let me start by saying rdiff-backup is exactly the tool I set out to find when looking for a backup solution. It makes use of librsync so you get all the goodness of the rsync remote-delta optimization algorithm, plus incremental … Continue reading →

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