August 2013 ~ Techmint Blog

507. (re)assembling a Dell C521 -- pictures

I finally got around to getting a new (well, refurbished) power supply for my old Dell C521. While the PSU worked fine, on trying to shut do...

Another update: It now dumps the energies in a file, energies.dat, as well. Update: some programmes, like ecce, are more picky about the xyz...

Every now and again I get ticked off with something to do with planned 'features' in gnome 3. I'm still not happy about gnome-sc...

I've got an SSD and 4 gb ram on my laptop, and have no desire to use to actual swap during normal use. However, I'd like to be able ...

Update 2: The coordinates are actually gradients, and so aren't terribly informative to a casual user like myself. See this post for how...

To my great shame I am using a piece of non-FOSS to deal with MS Office files -- namely, WPS . As a junior faculty member it'd be profes...

I've done this a couple of times by now, and I always forget one step or another. Most of the information is on http://verahill.blogspo...

This is both obvious, and tricky at the same time. 1. Install locales The first step is to install the languages you need sudo apt-get insta...