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Shell Redirection Question / Sometimes you learn more from the answer than expected

Shell Redirection Question /
Sometimes you learn more from the answer than expected: I love it when the answer to a question actually tells you more information so you can truly grok the underlying problem.
Also, nerds of the internet: when someone a…

Chocolate Cat (video)

Testing out video editing using a free Ubuntu program called “Kino”. It’s pretty sweet. One important note: if Kino playback is very choppy, you may need to specify /dev/dsp in the audio device section. I have a crappy, 10 year old sound card in this box — it’s not well supported in ANY operating system [...]

ATI Radeon 9600 with Compiz and Dual-Head

This concerns configuring an ATI Radeon 9600 under Linux to be dual head and run compiz-fusion. I’m not going into detail on what options make compiz run faster, just how to get two screens working well with compiz. I’m posting this because I had a hell of a time finding all the info on it. [...]

Gnome Color Changes

Update: Seems the original link was removed for some reason. I’ve posted a link to the new location, which is a source bz2 file. One of the things I love about Gnome is how it doesn’t overwhelm you with options and settings for things. But one of the things I hate about it is how [...]

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