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Category Archives: Desktop
Synergy – sharing your keyboard, mouse, and clipboard across computers
Having two computers at your desk does not mean two keyboards and two mouses. The software called Synergy hosted over on their webite can help you share your keyboard, mouse, and even clipboard across multiple computers. That is right, multiple, not … Continue reading
Posted in How-To, Linux, Reviews
Tagged clipboard, hostname, ifconfig, ip address, keyboard, mouse, QuickSynergy, review, shared clipboard, shared keyboard, shared mouse, synergy, tips, tutorial
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Eclipse Luna Dark Theme on Linux Mint
Update 2 (4/6/2015): The best theme that seems to work flawlessly is “delorean-dark”. Be sure to select it for Desktop and Control in the Themes section. There are many themes are close but this one seems the best all around. … Continue reading
Posted in How-To, Linux
Tagged dark theme, eclipse, Linux, Linux Mint, luna, nightfall, themes, tips
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Hard Drive from Linux (Disable Hybrid Shutdown)
On dual-boot computers, Linux computers are usually able to see and have write access to the Windows hard drive. This is useful for transferring files between the operating systems. With Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows added a quick boot feature … Continue reading
Posted in How-To, Linux, Windows
Tagged dual boot, Hard drive, hybrid shutdown, Linux, Linux Mint, tips, Troubleshooting, Windows
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Excel’s Shared Workbook
Excel is a great tool that I thought was poor for distributed work because of the locking of the file inconvenience. When many people wanted to access a document right after they receive notification to update the document in their … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Windows
Tagged auto save, Excel, filter, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Office, pivot table, review, Spreadsheet, table, tips, Workbook, xsl, xslx
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Windows 8 to 8.1 upgrade but updates not downloading
To upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, you need to install all of the Windows 8 updates before you can install Windows 8.1 from the Windows Store. Two ways to install updates Update Center Move your mouse to the … Continue reading
SSH to your machine from outside your home
If nothing is getting returned, you need a server. You can install a good one called openssh-server… Continue reading
Posted in How-To, Linux
Tagged ip address, openssh, openssh-server, port 22, server, ssh
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Flash Player for Browsers on Linux
there are different solutions to get a flash player installed into your browser Continue reading
Posted in How-To, Linux
Tagged Adobe Flashplayer, Browser, Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Flash, flashplugin, pepper flash, pepperflashplugin, sudo
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Mounting encrypted Linux hard drive with Live USB
Your MOUNT pass-phrase is the one we just got. Enter it! Continue reading
Posted in How-To, Linux
Tagged Data recovery, Encryption, Linux, Linux Mint, Live USB
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Owncloud and an external hard drive
Rather, we are going to create a mount point and not a symbolic link. Continue reading
Posted in How-To, Linux, Nextcloud/OwnCloud
Tagged Fix, Hard drive, mount, owncloud, symbolic link
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Upgrading from Linux Petra to Qiana
If you followed my previous blog post of going from 15 to 16, well I am back with 16 to 17! https://manandkeyboard.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/upgrading-from-linux-mint-15-to-16/ This time I am following another great blog posted online: http://www.yourownlinux.com/2014/06/how-to-upgrade-to-linux-mint-17-qiana-from-linux-mint-16-petra.html Do your backup of files. The author … Continue reading
Bitcoin ASIC Miner on Linux
Getting an ASCI Bitcoin Miner to run on Windows is straight forward but getting the correct drivers and terminal commands down to run it is actually more difficult than one would think. So, I would suggest sticking to Windows but … Continue reading
Upgrading from Linux Mint 15 to 16
Using Linux Mint 15, I noticed that I was not notified when a newer version of Linux Mint was published. v15 was treating me well but I like to run the latest. A clean install is always an option but … Continue reading
No Highlighting in PowerPoint
I found this out today and it blew my mind. First, go and try to highlight text in PowerPoint like how you can highlight text yellow. You will find there is no highlight text option and even you try to … Continue reading
Netflix on Linux
Update! (11/30/2014) Running Netflix in Linux is much easier. More or less, if you have Google Chrome 37 or more, it should run out of the box. Chromium did not work for me but pure breed Chrome did. This just … Continue reading
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