A member of staff asked how he could open a personal XPS file, created in Windows 7. Now XPS is the Microsoft replacement for PDF and it is apparently installed as a printer by default in Vista and Windows 7, which means increasingly people are going to start sending XPS files whether we like it or not.
Installing from Ubuntu onto Debian Lenny seems sub-optimal, but is quick and dirty.
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/freenx-team/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/freenx-team/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
I recently that the arrow keys on my laptop were not working correctly, usually triggering knapshot. The following webpage addresses this concern. You should go there now, only read on if that page is gone.
This is just a list of the hacks or fixes that I currently have in place on Iceweasel. These were not my invention, and surely I owe a debt of thanks to various sites; unfortunately I have no way of knowing which sites.
Some of these hacks are too facilitate system wide control, others help to maximise performance on a thin client system.
This is currently a few scrappy notes just to jog my memory as to things to try. Messing about with monitor settings can blow your monitor, graphics card and probably both; although in practice sensible use should ensure that never happens to you.
Note that some of these commands may not exist on your system, if you need to install them, then remember to install into the chroot, e.g.:
Finally spent a few hours on my HTPC. Previously the Hauppauge HVR-2200 was working fine in Kaffeine, but was not working in MythTV. I finally resolved this issue, and typed up some details here.
In an effort to make my desktop a little more elegant, I have designed some new wallpapers for use with KDE on Debian. They may be a little too bling for some of you, but I’m quite pleased with them. All created using free software, in the form of The Gimp. In the spirit of free software, I have uploaded to KDE Look under a Creative Commons licence.
This is a guide to upgrading from Debian Etch and LTSP 4.2 to Debian Etch and LTSP 5. This is largely based on the following page which should be your primary guidance on installation:
The selection of client hardware is an interesting topic, that causes much confusion for those unfamiliar with LTSP. When you start out with LTSP, the likelihood is that one of your motivations is to extend the life of your existing clients. But you’d be lucky indeed not to require a few new clients, and of course over time you will need to purchase replacements for hardware failures. So what are your options?
As a died-in-the-wool KDE user, I’m just coming to terms with KDE4 and mostly loving it. A few niggles remain, but in the main it is very good indeed. But I suppose I would hesitate to recommend it to a new user. Having seen and heard much praise for the latest Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, which uses the Gnome desktop, I thought I’d give it a go.