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Monday, February 13, 2017

Xfce - How To Execute Shell Scripts from Thunar or the Desktop

There are a few shell scripts I like to launch directly from the desktop or from Thunar - however, as of Thunar 1.6.5, this option is not en...

iOS 10 - iPad Lock Button and/or Auto-Lock Not Working Fix

It appears that a recent iOS 10 update has caused an issue where some users cannot lock iPad devices. I first noticed the issue when closing...

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Fixing encrypted swap partition in Ubuntu 14.04

Having the message "the disk drive for /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 is not ready yet or present" error on your splash screen when booti...

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Slackware Security Updates Desktop Notifier for xfce (sort of...)

How to (sort of) get slackware security update notifications on your xfce desktop: 1. Grab alienbob's excellent rsync_slackware_patche...

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Resolving 1080p playback errors on Raspberry Pi / Raspbmc / OpenELEC

If you're having issues with 1080p playback with raspbmc / OpenELEC - for me, it was garbled video or audio with no video - the issue mo...

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