Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
If you need to manage your disk or just check the disk space usage of a Linux powered computer, here are some suggestions for both graphical and command line interfaces.
Desktop applications for disk management:
File mangers: in a modern Linux desktop environment checking disk usage is a trivial task. The file ...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
After installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) I have noticed that Midnight Commander, one of the most used CLI file managers available for Linux is unable to preserve settings over different sessions. The solution is quite simple: in order to save it's settings, Midnight Commander requires a ".mc" folder (notice the ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
You've probably already noticed that if you try to copy a table from Firefox and paste into an Excel spreadsheet, using the classic methods the table formatting is not preserved, and the data from the table is copied into one cell from the Excel spreadsheet.
The solution is to paste the ...
Posted in Internet, Microsoft Office, Software, Windows | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
One of Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 bugs, consists in repeating (duplicating) some characters from the end of some elements with the CSS atribute - float.
What's triggering this bug:
Using HTML comments inserted between the elemens with the float attribute.
Hidden elements using display: none
Solutions to prevent the duplication of the ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
In case the sound events are not working in Pidgin you can use this solution:
From the main menu select Tools -> Preferences (or just press the keyboard shortcut CTRL+p).
From Preferences window select the Sounds tab.
At the Sound method section, for Method select the Command option.
In the Sound command field type:
aplay ...
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