What I tried to accomplish today was to prevent a system shutdown or reboot or suspend, if a specific process was still running in the background. This might sound pretty useless, but having shut my PC down once again this afternoon while the backup process was still active in the background, I decided to resolve [...]

Having set up automatic incremental backups for my home directory, I need to follow some simple rules in order not to poison the backups with temporary files (sometimes huge ones) I usually place on my desktop for later viewing. One of those rules is to stop downloading stuff directly to the desktop, but use a [...]

From a user’s perspective, having to use an old beta version of Firefox in my primary desktop, while, at the same time, a final stable release of the browser has been released, is a bit annoying. But, the fact that this happens due to technical issues makes it partially acceptable. The following article aims to [...]

This is just a quick note that I have upgraded to Fedora 9. Generally, I am against upgrading an operating system at the time of a new release. The new OS version might be tagged as stable, but it is a fact that, during the first weeks after the release, many new bugs are discovered. [...]

A while ago, I had written about some problems I had encountered while trying to send notification messages with libnotify to the logged-in users’ desktops from a cronjob. Although I haven’t made any progress with that issue, I just noticed a very useful comment under that post, submitted by Aleksei. According to the tip, sudo [...]

There are several methods that can be used for text message exchanging between different non-privileged users. Usually, when the sender of such a message is a service and the recipient, who is supposed to see the message, is a human, that message is called a “notification“. The method used by many services that run within [...]

While browsing the archives of Linux Screw, I came across a very interesting post about Zim. Zim is a wiki-style note taking system for the desktop. Its text editor, being an 100% WYSIWYG wiki text edtor, does not require any knowledge of wiki syntax. One could say that Zim is a more advanced and feature-rich [...]

I consider ditionaries, either in printed or electronic form, as one of the most useful sources of valuable information and an indispensable companion when reading. Lately, I’ve been reading lots of stuff, which involved scientific terminology in the English language, so it was very often required to lookup words on various online dictionaries. I did [...]

Many GNOME users have not realized that the Epiphany browser, apart from the official extensions package, can be further extended by third party extensions, which haven’t made their way into the official package yet. A good place to start checking what else is available for your favourite browser is the Third Party Extensions for Epiphany [...]

Chances are that your removable media preferences in GNOME are set in a way so that CDs get mounted automatically. There is a usability bug that comes into play whenever you try to blank an already written rewritable CD or DVD with Gnomebaker or directly with the command-line tool (cdrecord). An error message that the [...]