Shallow Thoughts
Akkana's Musings on Open Source, Science, and Nature.
Thu, 20 Nov 2008
I have a new Firefox Tips article up on Linux Planet:
The
Plague of Ridiculously Long URLs
(note I didn't choose the title). It discussees how to handle
long URLs broken over several lines, of the sort we so often
see in email messages.
Tags: writing, mozilla, firefox
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09:43 Nov 20, 2008
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Thu, 06 Nov 2008
My latest Linux Planet article,
Why
Firefox Rocks on Linux, discusses Linux-specific Firefox
shortcuts involving the middle mouse button, the URLbar and
the scrollbar.
It's getting
good
Diggs, too, and comments from people who found the tips helpful,
which is great. A lot of people don't know about some of these great
Linux time-savers, but these are the sort of things that make me
love Linux and stick with it even when it gets frustrating.
I hate to think of people missing out just because there's no
obvious way to discover some of the shortcuts!
Tags: writing, mozilla, firefox, linux
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Sun, 26 Oct 2008
Mon, 22 Sep 2008
Part
III in the Linux Astronomy series on Linux Planet covers two 3-D apps,
Stellarium and Celestia.
Writing this one was somewhat tricky because
the current Ubuntu, "Hardy", has a bug in its Radeon handling
and both these apps lock my machine up pretty quickly, so I went
through a lot of reboot cycles getting the screenshots.
(I found lots of bug reports and comments on the web, so I know
it's not just me.)
Fortunately I was able to test both apps and grab a few screenshots
on Fedora 8 and Ubuntu "Feisty" without encountering crashes.
(Ubuntu sure has been having a lot of
trouble with their X support lately! I'm going to start keeping
current Fedora and Suse installs around for times like this.)
Tags: writing, astronomy, linux, ubuntu, bugs
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Fri, 12 Sep 2008
I have a new article on XEphem on Linux Planet,
following up to the KStars article two weeks ago:
Viewing
the Night Sky with Linux, Part II: Visit the Planets With XEphem.
Tags: writing, astronomy, linux
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008
I have an article on Linux Planet! The first of many, I hope.
At least the first of a short series on Linux astronomy programs,
starting with the one that's easiest to use: KStars.
It's oriented toward binocular observing, with suggestions
for good targets for beginners.
Viewing
the Night Sky with Linux, Part I: KStars
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Tue, 25 Jan 2005
I've started my
"GIMP for
Beginners" course on the
Linuxchix
Courses mailing list, topic "gimp".
Anyone reading this is welcome to join in!
Here's the first posting, Lesson
0.
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Wed, 01 Dec 2004
My article on
Wireless on the
Road,
based on experiences getting wi-fi connections on our recent
southwest
trip, is in Linux Journal online, with a reference in Linux Today.
My first official byline, Yeehaw!
Master wordsmith
Carla Schroder
helped, with both encouragement and proofreading. Thanks, Carla!
(BTW, Carla's new book, The
Linux Cookbook, just came out. I saw a couple of early
pre-production chapters, and it's already solved several Linux
problems I was struggling with. I'm sure the rest of the book is
just as good, and I'll be buying it. Don't confuse it with the
other book by the same name but a different author.)
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