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Locking Ubuntu Gnome Panel
Children have a knack for messing up anything tidy. Unlike their rooms, and the car, however, your computer can be kept orderly – at least in part. On Ubuntu, it is possible to lock down the panels (the top and bottom bars with icons and menus). Firstly, get System Tools>Configuration Editor displaying. Do this from [...]
Making custom emblems for Ubuntu
Have you ever wanted to make your own emblems for Ubuntu? It is very easy. Just use the GIMP (or something similar) to make a png image (make it at least 40x40px) and then open nautilus (e.g. Places>Home Folder>Edit>Backgrounds and Emblems and add it. I store all my emblems in ~/Pictures/emblems. For a brilliant overview [...]
Karmic RC sound problem
Installed Karmic release candidate. Trying to play various media. Oops. Attempts to get plugins for Firefox failed but fortunately I know the magic trick: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras OK. But no sound to hear the media with. I seemed to fix the problem with two small changes under System>Preferences>Sound>Output. I changed the device for sound [...]
Python fits in my brain – no accident
One of the things I like about Python is the way I can hold so much more in my brain without having to look stuff up. If you know the tools for working with sequences (strings, lists, tuples, dictionaries etc), you know what to do with anything that is a sequence. Data from a database [...]