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Ubuntu Blog - Aug 14, 2007
This thought just struck me: the GNOME “save file” icon is still an image of a floppy (or it is at least in Gnumeric). How many people still remember what a floppy looks like? Should the save icon be replaced by …
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Ubuntu Blog - May 20, 2007
Via Chris Ilias’ Blog comes this gem of a tip. If you use Mozilla Thunderbird, and love the threaded view, but hate losing the threaded view whenever you click on “Sender” or “Date” to sort the messages, then this is …
Also tagged: applications, surfing
Ubuntu Blog - May 17, 2007
The utility “tee” is very useful for plumbing on the command line. Curiously enough, it gets its name from the T-splitter used in plumbing, shown below: Say you want to run a command, and be able to see the output and …
Also tagged: administration, ubuntu, commands
Ubuntu Blog - Apr 12, 2007
The latest edition of Reviewit Magazine features the Ubuntu Logo on the 37th page. (via Digg). The logo is used in an ad, so it isn’t the magazine’s fault, perhaps. The ad is for the Woodlands Institute for Health and …
Ubuntu Blog - Feb 23, 2007
I found the solution to another long standing gripe I had with Firefox - if you mistype a url once in the url bar, the ‘fox remembers it for a long long time. So I’d type “ubintu” once, and then, each time I type …
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Ubuntu Blog - Feb 18, 2007
I stumbled upon the nifty “lshw” tool today. lshw lists your hardware. Try it now: $sudo lshw You can get specific details by using the -C flag: $sudo lshw -C disk will list all you hard disks. It create an html page …
Ubuntu Blog - Jan 3, 2007
In a surprising development that seems really strange and unnecessary, Firefox 2.0 won’t go to the previous page when I press the “backspace” button on the keyboard. I have grown used to this over the period I have …
Also tagged: ubuntu, bugsquashing