Obnam restore

Having done a restore and re-install recently of my Debian wheezy box, I made notes on what exactly I did. This was a ‘planned’ restore in that I decided at about 1430 to start the restore now rather than wait for doing it tomorrow. Whilst Obnam was completing ...

Cairo-Dock is a pretty, fast and customizable desktop interface. You can see it as a good alternative/addition to Unity, Gnome-Shell, Xfce-panel, KDE-panel, etc. Its installable from the repos and has its home page at ’GLX-dock’ http://glx-dock.org/ where it has a good set of documentation, a ...

Although I have a very modern and up-to-date computer with 4 gigs of RAM, I do like the desktop environment of LXDE, which has a very light footprint. I have customised it to my needs and preference, with a top panel for everything and cairo-dock in the bottom panel place ...

Yesterday I heard of someone running MATE on Debian wheezy, which is something that I’ve been wanting to do myself. MATE is a fork of Gnome 3, essentially going back to Gnome 2 but updating it slightly, and today I logged into it. And it works beautifully! I’ve ...

I finally took the plunge and upgraded my debian box to testing, also known as ‘wheezy’ which is the next version of Debian. I changed my /etc/apt/sources.list so that everything that said squeeze was changed to wheezy, and then did a ‘sudo aptitude update’ and checked that ...

I have been a fan of Tony Buzan’s mind-mapping for many years, and have used several programmes for it, primarily kdissert and now freemind.

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or ...

I also started the groundwork to upgrade to wheezy from squeeze. I knew that I got a distorted screen under wheezy and it turns out to be my graphics card, which is a bit old, being a VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev a1) , as ...