Some of you may have noticed that when you try to grab a screenshot with the built-in gnome utility while compiz-fusion is enabled, you end up with a borderless window:
When what you really wanted was this:
The trick here is to use Gimp instead. Click on File -> Acquire -> Screenshot.
One of the things I love about Fedora is that it only includes Free software. Despite the fact that any and all patent encumbered or non-open licensed software has to be installed manually, I can’t help but respect the project for taking a stand for Freedom.
That’s why I was extremely disappointed, almost hurt, when I [...]
Don’t you hate it when your bittorrent download of an album finishes, and you realize that it’s one flac file and one cue file? Unless your goal is to recreate the CD, this format probably won’t be much good to you. You probably want a separate flac file for each song. Splitting the file is [...]
Ten (I know, only ten?) fun Emacs toys:
M-x life renders Conway’s Game of Life
M-x gomoku launches a game of Gomoku
M-x tetris launches a game of Tetris. This is also available in XEmacs
M-x pong launches a game of Pong
M-x spook outputs a string of random words designed to distract anyone from the NSA who might be [...]
Do you have to look up the crontab syntax every time you need to add an entry? Try using this cheat sheet instead!
I used to look up the crontab syntax every time I needed to add an entry, but not anymore. Now, I use this cheat sheet. Just copy the text and paste it into [...]
Last week, after being online for only ten days, this site had an article on the front page of digg.com, Linux.com, LinuxToday.com and several blogs. I’d like to share some of what I learned from “the digg effect.”
As It Happened
Even though I wasn’t feeling well Monday evening, I stayed up late to finish an article [...]
After making the front page of Digg.com and Linux.com yesterday, I though I’d check some of the stats on my site, and I was shocked by what I found.
Here is a list of the top reported IP addresses from yesterday:
Any guesses as to who #2 is?
Dell was #7 and HP was #10, while most of [...]
I know you’ve seen it. When you open a terminal window and become root… It’s that little message that tells you that you have mail waiting. Mail? What mail? Who’s it from, and what’s it about? Well, don’t worry too much about it. It’s most likely a message from syslog or maybe denyhosts. Here’s how [...]