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Miek Gieben5911d430Slowly changing the background in XFCE
Google is always helpful of course, so I've found this blog entry on how to set the background in xfce . It boils down to setting a jpg in XFCE's backdrops.list and then reloading xfdesktop . Crude, but it works....
Miek Gieben5919d397The file system I want
Working on backup programs for almost a decade now, I ve had plenty of time to think about file system wrt backups. Basically I want the following properties in a file system online snapshots in a .snapshots directory...
Miek Gieben5919d524The file system I want
Working on backup programs for almost a decade now, I've had plenty of time to think about file system wrt backups. Basically I want the following properties in a file system online snapshots in a .snapshots directory...
Miek Gieben5919d438The file system I want
Working on backup programs for almost a decade now, I've had plenty of time to think about file system wrt backups. Basically I want the following properties in a file system online snapshots in a .snapshots directory...
Geoff Sisson5921d811Blackholing Unwanted Sites in Google
If you re anything like me, you use Google dozens — sometimes hundreds — of times a day.  While Google s Search Quality Group is preternaturally good at keeping the search results relevant, a few sites pop up regularly...
Miek Gieben5925d459XFCE title less theme
After some switching I have now settled on XFCE. With Ubuntu XFCE sometimes does not start, this is a dbus issue in combination with gnome-screensaver (a race condition between the two). This sucks, but can be resolved...
Miek Gieben5925d546XFCE title less theme
After some switching I have now settled on XFCE . With Ubuntu XFCE sometimes does not start, this is a dbus issue in combination with gnome-screensaver (a race condition between the two). This sucks, but can be resolved...
Miek Gieben5925d487XFCE title less theme
After some switching I have now settled on XFCE . With Ubuntu XFCE sometimes does not start, this is a dbus issue in combination with gnome-screensaver (a race condition between the two). This sucks, but can be resolved...
Miek Gieben5929d371Grrrr
Grrrrr cd rm -rf Desktop mv Documents docs I don t want desktop environments messing with MY home directory. Thank you.
Miek Gieben5929d571Grrrr
Grrrrr cd rm - rf Desktop mv Documents docs I don't want desktop environments messing with MY home directory. Thank you.
Miek Gieben5929d501Grrrr
Grrrrr cd rm - rf Desktop mv Documents docs I don't want desktop environments messing with MY home directory. Thank you.
Miek Gieben5930d563Setup postfix with clamav and spamassassin WITHOUT amavis
I ve battled with amavis too often and I started to dislike it a little. So when I wanted to configured my postfix setup to scan for viruses and spam and needed a solution which would work without amavis. This is what I...
Miek Gieben5930d577Setup postfix with clamav and spamassassin WITHOUT amavis
I've battled with amavis too often and I started to dislike it a little. So when I wanted to configured my postfix setup to scan for viruses and spam and needed a solution which would work without amavis . This is what...
Miek Gieben5930d479Setup postfix with clamav and spamassassin WITHOUT amavis
I've battled with amavis too often and I started to dislike it a little. So when I wanted to configured my postfix setup to scan for viruses and spam and needed a solution which would work without amavis . This is what...
Miek Gieben5931d449My favorite LaTeX preamble
I ve written quite a few LaTeX documents during the last few years, but only recently I m starting to discover very powerful new packages, like memoir and xelatex. So I just wanted to share my new way of writing LaTeX...
Miek Gieben5931d584My favorite LaTeX preamble
I've written quite a few LaTeX documents during the last few years, but only recently I'm starting to discover very powerful new packages, like memoir and xelatex . So I just wanted to share my "new" way of writing...
Miek Gieben5931d484My favorite LaTeX preamble
I've written quite a few LaTeX documents during the last few years, but only recently I'm starting to discover very powerful new packages, like memoir and xelatex . So I just wanted to share my "new" way of writing...
Miek Gieben5935d429truetype fonts in LaTeX the easy way (on Debian/Unbuntu)
Steps: Read: How to use nice fonts in LaTeX Install the software: sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex sudo apt-get install lcdf-typetools The latter one is needed for otfinfo to determine the font family name. Read...
Miek Gieben5935d578truetype fonts in LaTeX the easy way (on Debian/Unbuntu)
Steps: Read: How to use nice fonts in LaTeX Install the software: sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex sudo apt-get install lcdf-typetools The latter one is needed for otfinfo to determine the font family name....
Miek Gieben5935d446truetype fonts in LaTeX the easy way (on Debian/Unbuntu)
Steps: Read: How to use nice fonts in LaTeX Install the software: sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex sudo apt-get install lcdf-typetools The latter one is needed for otfinfo to determine the font family name....
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