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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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2012: What a year for Linux…

Millenium Technology Prize, Linux is in every place, Android, amazing social media coverage… Those and other are just feel normal to me.. But for someone not being into Linux – this is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Watch and learn…

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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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Nominating Linux for the Biggest Social Impact

I have just nominated ‘Linux’ to have the widest social impact for 2012. You do the same 🙂  

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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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Mercurial (hg) Fails with “abort: error: Name or service not known” via a Proxy

If you are behind a firewall and you need to access a proxy server to connect,

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How to force a fsck after reboot?

For various reasons you may want to force a check (fsck) of a filesystem you currently use (most likely the root / filesystem as you cannot umount it on-the-go). To achieve that do: (below is for the / mount)     # touch /forcefsck and after the reboot you’ll see that the fsck is being done.

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