After a few days with KDE I decided I didn’t like how buggy it was. I have moved back to XFCE after trying a few others. For me I wanted just enough features so I can get my work done without any pauses or glitches that will distract me. I am not 100% happy with [...]
I used to use a hosts file supplied by a website that has now ceased operations. http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html however I found this new one from a slashdot post. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/visual-subst.html
I am surprised this one hasn’t been fixed as I can see on google mentions of this back to 2007. Anyway many google results tell you to execute this command. This also gives a file not found error. I did a quick updatedb and locate guake.schemas. Here is an updated command for Ubuntu 10.10 to [...]
I wanted a quick launch panel at the bottom of the screen like I have in windows 7. I decided to look for a mac like and found avant-window-navigator (AWN) I installed this via synaptic and within 10 minutes had it looking pretty. I moved the show desktop icon, trash icon and open applications list [...]
Very Very easy. Full instructions here with explanation I will be installomg php, mysql and apache for use with this. If everything else works ok I will have a script develop.sh which will start apache, mysql, and eclipse up. When I quit eclipse it will close down apache and mysql. I will do this to [...]
I am used to firefox on windows and expected it to operate in an identical manner. It does for the most part but one thing that is bugging me is that in Windows when you click in the Address bar it gets highlighted and you can start typing a new URL straight away. In linux [...]
I used a live partion backup cd to backup the windows 7 partitions and restored them to the new hard drive. I then installed Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) Then the fun began. I didn’t expect LMDE to be as user friendly as the standard Linux Mint but I did want a rolling distribution that [...]
PLEASE NOTE: This is done on the live version of the distro as I haven’t paid for the installer yet and my new hard drive hasn’t arrived anyway. I have just been reading up on the various desktops and E17 seems to be quite popular as a lightweight option. Looking around I found a distribution [...]
I have finally had enough of Windows for development work. Going through the software I now use it is only iTunes that is holding me back. I have ordered a new hard drive for my Laptop and will be installing a dual boot system of Linux and Windows 7. I will only go into Windows [...]