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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Finding the time…
After discovering that the clocks on several of the servers I work with now were out of sync, I decided to check my own system’s accuracy. The simple command “ntpdate [server]” (on Ubuntu by default) will sync your clock with … Continue reading
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Neat Firefox Shortcut and More Handy Display Config Candy
I accidentally discovered an awesome shortcut in Firefox today. I wanted to switch to a workspace in fluxbox, but my sausage finger excuses for fingers pressed Alt+4, not F4, of their own volition. Serendipitously, Firefox had focus at the moment, … Continue reading
Linux Display Config… Can be Simple!
On rare occasions, one encounters a tool or application which makes blithely simple a task which was once annoying/hard/cumbersome/painful. Such a thing have I seen today: nvidia-settings. It has long been the case that having an NVIDIA graphics card has … Continue reading
The Sound of Linux
Recently, I came across some rather neat, if obscenely geeky, things to do with sound in linux. Actually, the first can be EXTREMELY useful. Often, using new systems, I do something that results in the PC speaker squawking. If it … Continue reading
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Eterm Oddity
While configuring my Fluxbox setup, I decided I wanted transparent terminals tailing various logs, or running top, from startup. I described getting most of this setup in a previous post. Since then, I ran into and solved two additional problems. … Continue reading