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Comment on Ubuntu’s Ambiance: selected items in unfocused windows are invisible by Trevor Bradley

Trevor Bradley — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:09:01 +0000

Thanks for this, the non-selected highlighting in geany was driving me bonkers.

Comment on Fridgemate HOWTO by rwh

rwh — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:57:41 +0000

Ok, to answer your questions:

1. You can certainly use a fridgemate to make a regular fridge keep its internal temperature at 13 degrees (or any other temperature between ambient and the lowest temperature the fridge can produce).

2. The specifications of the fridgemate and that ebay listing look pretty similar to me, given a cursory glance at the specifications.

Comment on Fridgemate HOWTO by Nav

Nav — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:07:52 +0000

Hi Guys- I am trying t convert a regualr fridge intoa wine Fridge and was pointed to this blog by MashMaster. I haveve 2 Qs- Can i use the Fridgemate to control regular fridge temp at 13 deg celsius and is this any better to the plugin digital thermostats available out there http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Digital-Temperature-Controller-Beer-Fermentation-Wired-Fridge-Freezer-Thermostat-/290829814525?pt=AU_Building_Materials&hash=item43b6cecafd
Thx

Comment on Installing Ubuntu on the lenovo ideapad S205 by Gerard Cunningham

Gerard Cunningham — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:01:04 +0000

Followed these instructions (except Linux Mint 14, not Ubuntu) but when I try to boot to Mint I get a flashing cursor. Windows boots okay. Any suggestions?

Comment on Installing Ubuntu on the lenovo ideapad S205 by noblegrunty

noblegrunty — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:05:10 +0000

If you’re having trouble with the Wifi, go into the BIOS menu and make your HDD #1 and the mysterious “ubuntu” entry #2.

Messing with the drivers and modprobe never worked for me. (Ubuntu 12.10)

If you’re having trouble with the installation, follow this guide:

http://pastebin.com/0R1jXyzM

This blog is from 2011, and might not work on the current Ubuntu 12.10. (It didn’t for me)

Comment on How to change a headlight bulb on the Honda Varadero XL125V by Iain Cairncross

Iain Cairncross — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:14:24 +0000

Thanks for the very helpful post!

Comment on How to build MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu Precise (pre-release) by Wellington Ribeiro

Wellington Ribeiro — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:09:25 +0000

For those who has the following problem with libgtkmm-2.4.so.1

$ mysql-workbench
/usr/lib/mysql-workbench/bin/mysql-workbench-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I solved it by reinstalling it:

$ sudo aptitude reinstall libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a

cheers

Comment on Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe transcripts project by rwh

rwh — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:30:57 +0000

Great, head on over to http://www.sgutranscripts.org/wiki/Special:RequestAccount. It'd be great to have you on board. Cheers, Rob

Comment on Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe transcripts project by Danny Haworth

Danny Haworth — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:19:47 +0000

Hi Rob, this is a terrific idea.

I’ve done some transcription work for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, and would love to help out

Comment on RDP VirtualBox without the proprietary Oracle extension pack by pb

pb — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:02:15 +0000

Nice post. I hadn’t considered xrdp.

> Great! We don’t need the proprietary expansion pack to do this.
> However, there are a few drawbacks to this approach:
…
> You have to keep the command running so you have to use screen
> or nohup or equivalent, which is a bit less convenient than
> using VBoxManage

FWIW, just redirect the shell output to /dev/null and background the command,
e.g.
‘VBoxHeadless –startvm ‘Ubuntu’ –vrde off –vnc –vncport 5900 >& /dev/null &’