Archives for A taste of linux

Sat 14 December 2019 Updated pdfbuild, version 3

Wed 27 March 2019 Tabbar!

Fri 15 December 2017 Redo Your To-Do List

Wed 13 September 2017 restic scripts - amended to version 2

Sat 19 August 2017 restic - backup

Sat 19 August 2017 restic - integrity checking

Sat 19 August 2017 restic - unlock

Thu 17 August 2017 Backups after the demise of Obnam - Analysis of borgbackup, restic, and zbackup

Sat 12 August 2017 Referencing a Newspaper Article in org-mode/latex

Sat 15 July 2017 'pdfbuild' - from tex to PDF - version 2

Fri 14 July 2017 What’s On Your To-Don’t List?

Sat 01 July 2017 Move TeX-Live xxxx

Wed 21 June 2017 Tips for coping in hot weather

Wed 21 June 2017 Sleeping in hot weather

Sun 10 April 2016 org2latex - a yasnippet

Sun 10 April 2016 'pdfbuild' - from tex to PDF

Thu 07 April 2016 A puddle underneath the keyboard!

Fri 26 February 2016 5 rules for taking creative criticism

Sun 17 January 2016 New Obnam Manual, version 19.1

Thu 31 December 2015 ToDo List

Thu 31 December 2015 5 Advantages of a To-Do List

Sun 13 December 2015 Why I use a ToDo List

Sun 06 December 2015 How to setup, and remove, multiarch in Debian Jessie

Thu 29 October 2015 How I've set up pelican - part 3 - Themes

Thu 22 October 2015 How I've set up pelican - part 2 - The conf files

Sat 17 October 2015 How I've set up pelican

Thu 24 September 2015 The productivity trick one author used to write over 40 books

Thu 17 September 2015 22 Lessons from Stephen King on how to be a great writer

Tue 25 August 2015 Its a new look!

Sat 13 June 2015 Using a ppa repo on debian

Wed 06 May 2015 New Obnam Manual

Mon 06 April 2015 *New* beeb 7.5

Wed 11 February 2015 An updated radio feeds script

Sat 27 December 2014 mpd super-feed!

Fri 26 December 2014 At last, a working BBC radio feeds

Mon 08 December 2014 Do you have a 'recovery plan'?

Sat 22 November 2014 Emacs init from an org-mode file

Fri 07 November 2014 UPDATE - The Quick And Dirty Guide To ”Get-Iplayer”

Mon 03 November 2014 UPDATE - 'beeb' is working again!

Wed 29 October 2014 Update on 'beeb'

Wed 15 October 2014 An updated "plank!"

Sun 05 October 2014 SOLVED! Yesterdays lightdm upgrade broke it!

Sat 04 October 2014 My `gitcron' script

Thu 07 August 2014 Transferring books to a Kindle Fire

Sat 21 June 2014 Life on the bleeding edge 2 – get_iplayer

Fri 06 June 2014 Ranking of percentage of free space on your drives

Mon 26 May 2014 QupZilla problems

Sun 11 May 2014 Wallpaper-for-gnome3

Fri 18 April 2014 'beeb'-v4.0

Sat 12 April 2014 'ebuild- v2'

Mon 07 April 2014 'emq-v1' - to help choose which version of emacs to use

Mon 07 April 2014 Life on the bleeding edge 1 - emacs

Thu 03 April 2014 Sudden catastrophic loss of free space!

Wed 02 April 2014 The new kid on the block - QupZilla

Thu 20 March 2014 YASnippet, your own snippets, and lorem-ipsum

Tue 18 March 2014 Passwords 3 - Passwordless password manager

Sat 15 March 2014 A New Plank

Sat 22 February 2014 lrs - logoff/reboot/shutdown?

Thu 20 February 2014 emacs theme problems

Thu 13 February 2014 "Wallpaper" - v1

Sun 09 February 2014 "radiostreams-v2.0" - A New MPD playlist

Tue 04 February 2014 What to do when your email gets hacked - and how to prevent it

Tue 28 January 2014 A strong, secure password

Wed 22 January 2014 How to Create a Secure, Memorable, Password

Mon 06 January 2014 How to restore one file from an obnam backup

Tue 31 December 2013 And yet more testing!

Tue 31 December 2013 Hello World, and Welcome to 2014!

Sat 28 December 2013 The lowdown on 'org2blog'

Fri 20 December 2013 A new 'mv'

Thu 19 December 2013 Hello, World

Sat 07 December 2013 Evernote and ..... a linux client? NixNote or Everpad?

Wed 04 December 2013 Poor-Mans-Spotify aka PMS

Tue 26 November 2013 'mengen' and 'fluxmenu'

Tue 19 November 2013 Fluxwant v3.0

Mon 18 November 2013 Gone to bitbucket!

Mon 18 November 2013 You've seen 'want', now you can have 'fluxwant'!

Sun 17 November 2013 A 'super' command - want

Wed 13 November 2013 Show - a new command

Sat 09 November 2013 Troubleshooting MPD

Fri 08 November 2013 Obnam unlock and force-lock

Sat 02 November 2013 Obnam conf files

Sat 02 November 2013 Obnam-fuse

Sat 02 November 2013 reinstall-ubuntu

Fri 01 November 2013 Git and my github

Sun 27 October 2013 Obnam and MPD restore

Mon 21 October 2013 A new host!

Tue 01 October 2013 Protecting files and folders from unwanted deletion

Mon 23 September 2013 Update on 'linux counter'

Sun 22 September 2013 GreatLittleRadioPlayer - streaming radio!

Thu 19 September 2013 Whaaw media player

Wed 18 September 2013 Fluxbox part 5 - semi-dynamic menus

Mon 16 September 2013 On free software

Sat 14 September 2013 Tint2, lxpanel, cairo-dock, docky, perlpanel, awn?

Thu 12 September 2013 Pogo

Thu 05 September 2013 Obnam tweaks

Wed 04 September 2013 Restore from obnam backup

Wed 04 September 2013 Obnam scripts

Mon 26 August 2013 MPD

Sat 24 August 2013 cairo-dock + fluxbox.

Fri 23 August 2013 Three good NotePads

Wed 14 August 2013 Fluxbox, part 4 - usermenu

Sun 04 August 2013 How to Report Bugs Effectively

Thu 25 July 2013 Pyradio - radio from the commandline!

Fri 12 July 2013 Cryptkeeper - usage

Thu 11 July 2013 Cryptkeeper

Tue 09 July 2013 I'm sorry Fluxbox....

Tue 09 July 2013 Backup v5.6

Fri 05 July 2013 Bye Bye Fluxbox!

Sun 30 June 2013 Backing up with 'Obnam'

Tue 18 June 2013 Why I use Linux

Sat 15 June 2013 A new contender for my desktop - Fluxbox - part 1

Sat 15 June 2013 Fluxbox menus - part 2

Sat 15 June 2013 Fluxbox - part 3

Mon 10 June 2013 Cairo-dock

Tue 04 June 2013 Skippy-xd

Mon 03 June 2013 Themeing LibreOffice

Tue 21 May 2013 Amended backup script - now version 5.1!

Wed 08 May 2013 More streaming radio - in Spanish!

Sat 27 April 2013 ctodo

Thu 25 April 2013 Desktop Environments

Thu 25 April 2013 Tweaks

Thu 21 March 2013 LibreOffice errors

Mon 11 March 2013 Bash aliases

Mon 28 January 2013 Reinstall, jdiskreport, emptyTrash, debian-timescale, startup, podcasts

Fri 25 January 2013 MPD playlist

Sat 19 January 2013 New Desktop - LXDE

Sat 19 January 2013 Amended conky scripts

Sat 19 January 2013 conky

Thu 03 January 2013 Miscellany

Mon 19 November 2012 Wheezy and MATE

Mon 19 November 2012 New phone and Evernote

Wed 19 September 2012 Amended backup script

Sun 09 September 2012 Wheezy

Thu 02 August 2012 pdfForts

Sun 22 July 2012 Darkstat.

Sat 21 July 2012 More bash scripting

Mon 16 July 2012 More bash scripts

Sat 19 May 2012 Grep

Fri 18 May 2012 Datapacker

Thu 17 May 2012 Mind-mapping software

Wed 09 May 2012 Feeds!!!!

Tue 08 May 2012 Renaming to mp3

Sun 06 May 2012 Some Useful emacs key presses

Tue 01 May 2012 Backing up my mp3 music collection

Thu 19 April 2012 Upgrading to wheezy?

Thu 19 April 2012 Keyboard Shortcuts

Tue 10 April 2012 vnstat

Mon 09 April 2012 Tasklist colours in KDE

Wed 04 April 2012 A new installation

Thu 15 March 2012 Backing Up DVD's - part 2

Sat 11 February 2012 Backing up DVD's

Sun 22 January 2012 Password Keepers

Sat 21 January 2012 GNOME control center

Mon 16 January 2012 Tweaks - 2

Tue 10 January 2012 Creating space

Wed 04 January 2012 rsync and USB - part 3

Thu 29 September 2011 rsync and USB - part 2

Tue 27 September 2011 rsync and USB

Thu 22 September 2011 pdftotext

Sat 10 September 2011 gmail and iceweasel

Wed 17 August 2011 Elvis is dead!

Fri 12 August 2011 GTK-gnash

Mon 01 August 2011 Begone kmail date bars!

Sun 31 July 2011 File Indexing

Sun 17 July 2011 Tweaks - 1

Mon 11 July 2011 TOP and KILL

Tue 05 July 2011 Crontabs and cron jobs

Tue 05 July 2011 Bash prompt

Fri 01 July 2011 Widgets!

Sat 25 June 2011 KDE menu

Mon 20 June 2011 334501 linux counter

Sat 18 June 2011 Time for a change - 2

Thu 09 June 2011 LibreOffice 3.4.0

Thu 09 June 2011 A new start!

Thu 09 June 2011 Backups and rsync

Sat 30 April 2011 Time for a change

Sat 19 March 2011 The green side of the fence!

Sat 19 March 2011 A smooth transition to the light :)

Fri 04 March 2011 Add Close buttons to Konqueror tabs

Thu 25 November 2010 LibreOffice

Sat 31 October 2009 10 Reasons Engineers Hate The Phone!