Osugi Sakae

I am not a fan of the default header and footer settings that Firefox uses when printing. Too much info, most of which I do not care about. Like having the URL of the website. If I need it again, I have it bookmarked or a quick search for some keywords from the content should be sufficient. If I am printing it on paper, I don’t care about the URL. Same for the date and time. Some people (perhaps in business) may need this sort of info on their printouts, but I don’t need it and don’t want it.

Changing the header and footer info that is printed is very easy. The problem is that it resets after every print job. I have looked occasionally but never found a GUI way to change the info and have it stay changed. So today I delved into about:config. Sure enough, it isn’t that hard to do if you are willing to poke around “under the hood” a bit.

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So I am working on my MA TESOL research paper, and decide I want to put include the List of Tables (LoT) in the Table of Contents (ToC). Creating a ToC in OpenOffice.org is incredible easy, but adding things to it is much less so. Correction: finding out how to add things to it is not so easy. Once you know how though, it is pretty simple.

Obviously, you first need to have a ToC and something you want to add to it that isn’t already added by default. If you are using headings (and you should be!), you can easily add heading levels by changing the ToC settings. Right click on the ToC, select “edit index/table”, and set the appropriate level in the text box located to the right of “evaluate up to level”. In the screenshot, I have my ToC include heading levels 1, 2, and 3 by setting OOo to evaluate up to level 3.

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If you are having trouble unmounting a truecrypt file with
truecrypt -d
(especially if you get a “device busy” message) try umounting it first. You can do this from the command line with:
umount /media/truecrypt1
and then doing the usual:
truecrypt -d
Obviously you may have your truecrypt file mounted somewhere other than /media/truecrypt1, but if you do, you are probably tech-savvy enough to know it. On PCLinuxOS that is the default location. Unmounting first solved the problem for me. YMMV.

I am not a lawyer, but it looks like the farce is finally over. All that is left is payback for the poor souls (like IBM) who were unjustly accused by SCO. I understand that IBMs lawyers are referred to as the Nazgul. Bye-bye SCO, no one will miss you.