I’ve just bought the Edimax EW-7318USg wireless USB dongle, mainly to use it in corners of the house where the wireless signal is weak. It works fine and does seem to boost the signal. With network-manager, I found no way to quickly switch between the built-in wireless card and the Edimax. I installed wicd, which [...]
I’ve written a small script that checks whether I have queued mail and that displays a notification icon via “zenity –notification” in case I do. I wanted to run it using ~/.crontab but it wouldn’t run. First, I got error messages from the cron daemon that looked like this: (zenity:22981): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: [...]
You know what I mean … that loud loud beep that almost knocks you out whenever you type a non-available keyboard shortcut in Emacs. For immediate relief (this will not persist through a reboot): sudo modprobe -r pcspkr For permanent relief, edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add the line: blacklist pcspkr Addendum On my Lenovo [...]
I know hardcore Linuxers use rm for everything and think the trash on a computer is for babies who also like such poo-poo things like the mouse and GUIs. However, I’ve just deleted one too many files using rm from a shell script, especially since I like doing rm -rf on directories … confirming every [...]
I like the graphical login screen on my laptop to display my e-mail address. In case I lose the laptop and an honest person finds it, they should at least have the possibility to return it. In the latest versions of Ubuntu or Xubuntu, you can change the welcome message via the settings menu for [...]