Tag: Software
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Customising powerline for bash
I prepared this as an answer to a Stack Overflow question, before realising at the last moment that the OP wasn’t using powerline at all, but bash-it (a more basic alternative). So instead of losing the write-up, which I think is handy due to the dearth of practical examples of tweaking powerline, I thought I’d…
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XFCE4 port of Hardware Monitor Applet
Just a quicky today: I’d briefly adopted the GNOME 2 Hardware Monitor Applet, only to find GNOME 3 dropping support for such applets. However, all is not lost!
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Pain with grub2 when upgrading from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16
I meant to blog this when it was still fresh in my mind, but frankly, it was such a nightmare upgrading my Fedora 14 box to Fedora 16 that I just wanted to put it all behind me and get the basics working again.
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MythTV and the UK Digital Switchover
We had part one of the Digital Switchover in our area on Wednesday, so I finally had to bite the bullet and do a proper DVB channel re-scan on my MythTV box.
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Removing the large resize grip / button in GNOME Terminal
I like to have my GNOME Terminal scrollbar on the left (it reminds me of xterm then). But in GNOME 3 there’s a fugly triangular grip/button that sits in the bottom right obscuring text!
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Moving my emails (sort of) into The Cloud
I’ve been meaning to migrate my email to the “cloud” for some time now (well, a little local cloudlet), but my last attempt a couple of years or so ago came a cropper & scared me off. But now I’ve gone back to it, and it’s all working a treat.
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Fedora 16 issues – part 2: Empathy
Finally seem to have gotten the GNOME IM tool “Empathy” partially working. What a pain in the jacksie that was.
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Have you sold your soul for games?
Around 7,500 customers recently sold their souls to games-shop gamestation.co.uk; read more in this Yahoo news article.
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Custom Visualisers in Visual Studio
I have, for a while, known about Visual Studio’s autoexp.dat file, which allows one to customise how various classes are previewed in the debugger.