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Dipping Toes into Nix Package Manager | Installing Freeplane

I have been hearing a lot about Nix and NixOS for the last 2 years. I have been meaning to learn the specifics of Nix for a while now. Recently I got some time to start with https://nixos.org/learn/ . Especially while progressing into Nix language, I discovered that the Nix language is of “functional paradigm”…

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Customer IT Support Business Is All About Communication

I remember 20 years ago when I just gone into customer IT support business. Many customers could only rely on fax, phone instead of emails where they actually prefer to communicate face-to-face. As the business was transforming in past years,

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Darn! Scanned Document into PDF but Need to Rotate

Don’t you also get frustrated by that? You scan a landscape document into PDF and you need to rotate to have something readable. Or worse, a 50 page document and then find out that everything is upside down?

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“OR” Operation in “grep”

Since I do not need this frequently, I keep forgetting about this.

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Fujitsu LIFEBOOK UH572 Ultrabook Touch Pad Review: Linux

The Fujitsu LIFEBOOK UH572 Ultrabook is provided with a Synaptics ClickPad device…

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Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) on Fujitsu LIFEBOOK UH572

When I became a LIFEBOOK4LIFE insider, the first thing I had in mind was to install a Linux distribution on the device. The UltrabookTM came with Windows7 installed on. Frankly I do not fancy it (though I must admit it is a relief after Windows Vista), as I live on Linux almost all the time.

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Twitter Client Applications on Linux

I prefer to use the Adobe AIR applications and I use/used the following on Linux (Ubuntu 8.10 and OEL5):

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How to Recursively “grep” a Subdirectory for a List of Files

See http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1566/recursively-grep-a-subdirectory-for-a-list-of-files (great site BTW)

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Exporting Evolution (contacts) Entries

To export all vcards I use exportevolution.py:  $ exportevolution.py > /home/oyuksel/junk/alo.vcf  $ I am working on a script called splitvcf.py to generate separate vcards.  $ splitvcf.py   727 files created.  $I’ll put those into a sf project soon.

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Wireless on Dell Latitude D630 with OEL5

I have been referring to linlap for this configuration. The configuration has been made possible via ipw3945 and iwlwifi. To be more precise:

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