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Server move completed and general update

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in Lighting, Linux, Software development | No Comments »

The site is back online after a server move.  Actually I can't blame the server move for the downtime, because I went out of town and then had a lot of catching up to do, and as a result I ...

Connecting to a Windows file server from a Linux box

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

I was surprised how hard it was to find out how to mount a Windows file server as a drive on a Linux box. Fortunately, once I found out how, it was really pretty easy. First of all, ...

Found a bunch of templates

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

I use XFCE as my window manager, with Thunar as my file manager.  Thunar has always had this "Create Document -> from template" entry in the File menu, but it didn't come with any templates.  I finally went looking for ...