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Templates in Thunar

Monday, April 25, 2011

I have been using XFCE recently. KDE 4 is nice and all, but a bit flaky and I am tired of kmail and kopete (occasionally) losing settings after point updates. After switching to Pidgin and Claws Mail, and already using Firefox as my main browser, I figured, why bother keeping KDE? So I switched to [...]

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Truecrypt Trouble Triumph

Thursday, June 10, 2010

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 [...]

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SCO over at last?

Thursday, June 10, 2010

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.

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Too Many Choices?

Sunday, April 19, 2009

MS Windows advocates sometimes claim that “normal people” (1) don’t like having choices and that all the Linux distributions confuse people. Just a quick question: have any of the people who argue this ever seen or been in an American supermarket? Have you seen the cereal aisle? The toothpaste section? Seriously, my wife is from [...]

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