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Archive for January, 2007

26 Jan, 2007

Print Screen in Ubuntu Edgy

Posted by: Graeme Hunter In: Linux

Quick little tip, found this today when CTRL + Print Screen didn’t work for me. In Ubuntu, Print Screen will capture your whole desktop, whereas ALT + Print Screen will capture the live window. The latter being just what I needed.

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26 Jan, 2007

I killed my Wordpress blog, and lived to fight another day

Posted by: Graeme Hunter In: Blogging

So it was late. It was the wrong time of night to be playing with those sorts of options. And I compounded my error with the classic mistake of “oh, it’s a little change, I won’t need a backup”. Let both of those mistakes be lessons I learn.
So what happened? Well, I have a couple [...]

24 Jan, 2007

WordPress 2.1 Ella – How is it?

Posted by: Graeme Hunter In: Blogging

Well, I took the plunge last night. I meant to upgrade one of my least used blogs to Wordpress 2.1 as a test, and it was so quick and easy I ended up doing all four. Basic process was just backup the database, disable all plugins, copy the upgrade into the same directory as your [...]

23 Jan, 2007

Sync your podcasts to your iPod under Ubuntu

Posted by: Graeme Hunter In: Linux

This is a big deal for me, not so much getting it working, more that it is one of the few things I’ve been booting back into Windows for. I am hoping fairly soon to remove the Windows partition from the hard drive, and reclaim it all for Ubuntu.
Anyway, the setup is this:
1) Dock the [...]

05 Jan, 2007

Realplayer in Ubuntu Edgy

Posted by: Graeme Hunter In: Linux

I found this slightly trickier to set up than usual with Ubuntu, so I thought it was worth making mention of it. Basically, download from real.com and follow the instructions. The normal methods of installing such things (the package manager or using sudo apt-get install) didn’t work for me. Just saves a bit of faffing [...]


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