Category Archives: Linux

Spotify finally comes to Linux

Spotify the free music application for Windows and Mac has finally been officially ported to Linux, while this is only a preview build and currently unsupported it’s at least a step in the right direction and no more running the … Continue reading

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GIMP (2.6.8) Crashing On Some Toolbox Icons – Lucid

:~$ gimp gimp: fatal error: Failed to register GObject with DBusConnection (script-fu:3100): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error I fixed this error by removing opening Synaptic Package Manager and searching for appmenu-gtk, right click and mark for removal, once this has … Continue reading

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HowTo: Install & Use Resynthesizer for GIMP

Remember this Photoshop CS5 sneak peak showing off it’s latest and greatest feature Content-Aware Fill a couple months ago, well it turns out a reasonably old plug-in for GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) named Resynthesizer seems to work just as great and because it is … Continue reading

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HowTo: Find Recently Used Commands in Linux

One of my most used commands in Linux is the history command, it lists all your recent commands. The problem with this is you might have to scroll through hundreds before you get to one of any interest, so adding … Continue reading

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HowTo: Fix Can’t Click on Flash in Ubuntu (64bit)

There is a pretty quick fix for not being able to click flash on websites such as YouTube, just simply add the line below into the following file and restart your web browser and all should be fine: sudo gedit … Continue reading

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HowTo: Install BURG in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)

BURG if you didn’t notice is GRUB backwards and actually stands for “Brand-new Universal loadeR from GRUB” which was probably decided a while after picking the letters.. Basically though it’s a much nicer looking alternative to the very dated looking … Continue reading

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HowTo: Install BURG (The Beautiful GRUB Replacement)

BURG if you didn’t notice is GRUB backwards and actually stands for “Brand-new Universal loadeR from GRUB” which was probably decided a while after picking the letters.. Basically though it’s a much nicer looking alternative to the very dated looking … Continue reading

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HowTo: Run .jar files in Ubuntu

To run a JAR file from the command line in ubuntu using the following command: java -jar filename.jar Otherwise it is also possible to enable double clicking to run jar files too by the following simple steps: Find the .jar … Continue reading

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HowTo Fix: The file ‘/path/file.exe’ is not marked as executable.

The file ‘/path/file.exe’ is not marked as executable.  If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run.  For more details, read about the executable bit. While re-installing Spotify on my Desktop I came … Continue reading

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Spotify (wine+proxy)- Connection lost. Reconnecting

At University I am running Spotify through a proxy (and wine) which seems to result in lost of connections with 4 different error codes (shown below). What’s strange is I can usually get around 15/20 tracks at the start of … Continue reading

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