I found this script which, when set as your default mail client, opens up a gmail compose window from KDE apps instead of KMail.
I had a couple of problems with the automatic browser detection of the script, though, so I simply set the BROWSER variable to “firefox” instead of the command in the script.
To use, […]
For some reason my USB drive, even though empty, was showing up as half full and I needed to reformat it and found that to my horror, I had no idea what to do. Here’s the solution:
mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1
Make sure you do it while the drive is unmounted and you are root. Cheers!
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As of now, to get nVidia drivers working on FC5, you have to jump through hoops. This has partly to do with the FC5 kernel and partly to do with the driver. Sadly enough, when I reported this in FC5t3, the developers closed it with a NOTABUG (nVidia’s problem).
Here are the hoops you need to […]
Avyakt recently compared Microsoft Windows and women. In the same vein, I recently found out what an insecure OS Windows can be.
I recently gave in to temptation and bought a 250 GB hard drive (only S$150!) and decided I might as well give in to my gamer urges as well, and proceeded to install Windows […]
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, on Linux, using WINE. Bliss No better way to get high just after a deadline!
OK, here’s what I did. I’m using Fedora Core 4, by the way.Install wine. All you need to do is yum install wineRun winecfgGo to the “Graphics” tab. Check “Emulate a virtual desktop”, make […]
Howto make Firefox’s IE View extension launch Konqueror
I’ve been playing around with a couple of screencasting tools and even as I write this, the first result of my experiments is getting uploaded to the server.
This first screencast is about the little known ‘kfmclient copy/move’ operations which bring convenient GUI goodness to the command line. It’s a 1.25MB heavy, 1024×768 res Flash […]
Here’s the big picture overview of my desktop PC usage: I deal with data and not applications. Sadly, most of the apps today aren’t designed with this data first attitude in mind. This is a note on how I got my desktop closer to the ideal data first desktop.
Can’t tell DRI from DRM? Don’t know how Mesa relates to GLX? Help is at hand in the form of this short but excellent guide that will help make the X11 alphabet soup more palatable for everyone.
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If your DVD movie is interlaced and you find setting up deinterlacing filters in xine / totem / kaffeine / mplayer too cryptic, help is at hand!
Just use MPlayer’s pullup inverse telecine video filter:
$mplayer -vf pullup dvd://1
and enjoy the clean picture!
