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How to start a new X server with Quake wars to work as a minimizer for GNU/Linux
I’ve played Enemy territory since early 2006 in GNU/Linux and one of the things i missed from the beginning was the lack of a good minimiser. There was a ET minimiser ( ET Switch ) but it didn’t worked very well. So an alternate solution was the even more elegant solution of launching a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )How to create and remove a soft link, symlink or symbolic link
A soft link, or more common, a symlink, is link a shortcut to the targeted file or directory. So when is removed the original target stays present. This is the opposite of a hard link which is a reference to the target and so, if the hard link is removed, so is the target.
A [...]
Convert mp3 to ogg (to fix bitrate)
I was having troubles with an album a friend gave to me in mp3 format. Amarok wasn’t figuring out the lenght of the tracks so it wasn’t scrobbling them! It was like i wasn’t listening them at all!
The solution was simple: convert it to ogg. This is how i did it:
Nano – Shortcuts, syntax highlight and nanorc config file – pt1
I have been using nano as my favorite console editor (i use emacs/kate for the rest) for some time now. It’s simplicity, the speed and usefulness of it made it what it is. But recently, i’ve been trying to find out more features that i might been missing. One of those were the shortcuts. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Nano – Shortcuts, syntax highlight and .nanorc config file – pt2
And now, let’s look at the .nanorc file.
Here, i’ll go through the .nanorc config file, try to explain parts of it and set the syntax highlight on.
See the first part for shortcuts .
