I finally cracked. This is what happens when you’re left alone for a few hours and start messing around in Inkscape. To be fair, however, I’ve wanted a graphic tablet for a long time — I could just never really justify the cost since I don’t draw too much. Anyway, I broke down and bought [...]
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Simple custom keybindings in Gnome/Ubuntu
Gnome’s default keybinding app sucks (maybe Linus was right and Gnome treats its users like idiots? sucks for me I guess). Here is a way to bind anything you’d like to any key you’d like, globally. I found this useful because I naturally use WIN-E for an explorer or WIN-R for [...]
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Using Gnome + Ubuntu (7.04 Feisty Fawn) + Apache 2
Step 1:
In gnome goto System -> Administration -> Network and click on the ‘Hosts’ tab
Step 2:
For your normal localhost (127.0.0.1) double-click or hit ‘properties’ to edit it. Add your list of subdomains under localhost.
*Ignore the text in this pic, I overlooked that you had to include [...]
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This is more for me in case it ever happens again. My system froze up while doing some stupid stuff (namely pressing keys I shouldn’t be pressing) so i force-rebooted it (aka: kicked the surge protector). When I re-booted I got the “Hal failed to initialize” message which is apparently pretty common and was supposed [...]
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