One of the more annoying things to come about in the Linux/open source world is the use of “info” pages, replacing the old workhorse standard of “man” pages. In doing so, developers often ignore documenting crucial elements in a man page, instead leaving this gem at the end:
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I’ve moved from Iceweasel to Firefox 3 beta4, and I’m in love. The bookmark handling is sweet. You can just edit a bookmark by going to the page and clicking on a little icon in the location bar. You can add and remove bookmarks right there, too. The save-password dialog box has been replaced with [...]
One of the most difficult things to deal with while using a Linux desktop is the clipboard. There are apparently two clipboards on my desktop — perhaps more? I’m running Debian Etch w/ Gnome 2 based apps, if that matters.
If you copy text from one window, you may not be able to paste it in [...]
tar: namedb/master/domain.com.DB: time stamp 2008-01-31 18:22:02 is 0.000371905 s in the future
It’s GNU-tastic!
You know how programs like ‘less’, ‘vim’ and apparently ‘mutt’ and others clear the screen when you exit or suspend them? To some, it’s a feature. To others, myself included, it’s an abomination. Ptang Ptang Olay Biscuit Barrel posted animations that demonstrate the wrong way and the right way for terminals to behave.
If you’re using [...]
In Firefox, and other applications, why must I go to print preview to see how many printed pages a document would span? The print dialog’s “print range” section would be the ideal place for this information.
There’s not very much information online about using a IBM TS3200 (3573-TL) SCSI tape library with the “mtx” utility, and the documentation for the library doesn’t mention much about Linux at all. I’m using rdump, over SSH, and I’ve reached the end of tape. As I understood it, the tape library was supposed to automatically [...]
We’re testing a new server from our primary vendor, one which uses Xeon 5130 chips, on the SuperMicro X7DVL-E motherboard. This board uses Intel’s new onboard 82563EB NIC. For some reason Intel designs their NICs to not be backwards compatible in any way, and so each new NIC release seems to require a brand new [...]
