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Sudden catastrophic loss of free space!

Sudden catastrophic loss of free space!

So there I was quietly working away in emacs when suddenly the tab-bar and the mode-line started flashing purple! Disaster had struck, but what disaster? In the mini-buffer it was saying that there was no free space left on the drive, and so it was unable to save a file. No free space? No way, there should be about 140 gigs of hard drive space? Where had it gone?

‘Conky’ confirmed that the…

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The new kid on the block - QupZilla

The new kid on the block – QupZilla

For about a month now I’ve been using ‘QupZilla’ as my default web browser and am using the development version. QupZilla is a new, fast and secure open-source WWW browser, and can be found at http://www.qupzilla.com/ and looks like this -

It has source files for most of the major distros, so you might well find it available for your distro.

With every version, QupZilla is trying to…

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YASnippet, your own snippets, and lorem-ipsum.

YASnippet, your own snippets, and lorem-ipsum.

Yasnippet is an extremely good system of ‘boiler-plate’ text for emacs which can be called on for inserting text at the cursor. So far, this post has used two snippets, ‘New Post’ and ‘Lorem Ipsum’. ‘Lorem ipsum’ is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. It has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, and is being used here to demonstrate the use of…

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"lrs" - logoff/reboot/shutdown?

“lrs” – logoff/reboot/shutdown?

I’ve been using this script for quite some time and it works very well and is nice and simple to use. But, it didn’t log what I did and when, until now! :)

1: #/bin/bash 2: set -x 3: #: Title : lrs 4: #: Date : February 2014 5: #: Author : Sharon Kimble 6: #: Version : 1.0 7: #: Description : to help you to decide whether to reboot or shutdown 8: #: Options : 2, both listed in variables 9: #:…

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emacs theme problems I'm having great difficulties in getting themes to display properly, this screenshot shows the problem.

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Update to package of 'beeb'.

Update to package of ‘beeb’.

I’ve found that there were problems with opening beeb-v3.0.tar.gz on my bitbucket repo, so I’ve rebuilt it and uploaded it. Its now been repackaged as ‘beeb-v3.1.tar.gz’

If you find problems with it, can you please let me know?

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'beeb' - v3.0

‘beeb’ – v3.0

A major upgrade to ‘beeb’, which now does -

Check to see if you have ‘get-iplayer/get_iplayer‘ installed. If not it will prompt you to install it.

Creates the directory where the ‘beeb-tv.txt & beeb-radio.txt’ files are stored.

Downloads the current radio…

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Wallpaper - v1

I have about 57 rather nice wallpapers in my ~/wallpapers directory, most of which I hardly ever see, so I’ve written a script that will randomly choose and display one every thirty minutes. For once it isn’t called from a cron job, but from an alias, and…

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"radiostreams-v2" A New MPD playlist.

If you use this script you will get some amazing radio stations, from ones that just play Elvis Presley, or The Beatles, or solid Goon Shows! I’m currently listening to Elvis, and its stuff that I’ve never heard before, and I thought my Elvis collection…

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What to do when your email gets hacked - and how to prevent it.

Table of Contents

1. Step 1: get into your email account

2. Step 2: check your other accounts

3. Step 3: check for spam

4. Step 4: sort out your apps

5. Step 5: protect yourself for the future

6. Another layer of security

Having your email account…

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'beeb' v2.5

Table of Contents

1. Hints.

May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing, upgrade to ‘get-iplayer’!

The BBC has some superb radio and TV programmes, some of which they have released into the public domain and which can be downloaded…

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A strong, secure password.

We now know that “password”, “iloveyou” and “123456″ are some of the most common passwords in use. If you are still using a similarly weak password, it’s time to change to one that’s so secure and unguessable that it stumps even the cleverest of…

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A strong, secure password.

We now know that “password”, “iloveyou” and “123456″ are some of the most common passwords in use. If you are still using a similarly weak password, it’s time to change to one that’s so secure and unguessable that it stumps even the cleverest of…

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Strong password setting.

We now know that "password", "iloveyou" and "123456" are some of the most common passwords in use. If you are still using a similarly weak password, it's time to change to one that's so secure and unguessable that it stumps even the cleverest of…

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How to Create a Secure Memorable Password.

In today’s digital age, we are needing more and more passwords to secure out data and our identity. The problem is that there’s just so many to remember and often different systems need different types of passwords – like needing a special character, or a…

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And yet more testing!

Another testing blog posting, but this time using 'BlogWith' and 'everpad' to see if it actually works with this too. If it does its a major step forward, although for writing long posts, I still prefer to use emacs. Emacs does spell-checking, everpad…

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