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chris @ February 13, 2006 # Comments Off

My good old desktop got upgraded to Ubuntu Breezy last night. I took the oportunity to review and edit the existing partitions and do a clean install from CD — a procedure that always comes with discoveries of new software. And sometimes a problem or two, but I have installed Ubuntu so many times […]

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GTK+ “open file” dialogue, a small but useful tip

chris @ December 8, 2005 # Comments Off

Imagine you use Ubuntu Linux, or some similar Gnome (or XFCE) based Linux distro that comes with a useful and all in all well thought-out configuration. Imagine further that you’re a middle-of-the-road-user, someone who knows her way around the file system and masters some basic maintenance tasks. You know that many programs have configuration files […]

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