It’s a pretty common problem, one which could be solved by pretty much the following sentence: ‘, not stopping screen saver when playing videos.’ And, yeah, it’s very annoying. Something that should have been fixed thousands of releases ago, just like most common Linux problems. Luckily though there is...
Read more →Product: RGB OLED 160X128 Display Manufacturer: Densitron Price: £20.33 (At the time of this review.) Datasheet: DD-160128FC-2A Datasheet | Farnell Mirror EAGLE library: http://prusadjs.cz/eagle/OLED.lbr The DD-160128FC-2A is a solid little screen, at around 4.3cm (from corner to corner) it’s perfect for displaying information on small mobile robots, a little serial terminal screen for desktops,...
Read more →I have a TV and my monitor connected to my PC by a VGA switch box but what’s annoying is they aren’t the same resolution. This causes problems because I can’t see what I’m doing when I have switched to TV and usually have to leave the setting manager open so that when I...
Read more →After installing Ubuntu 11.10 I headed straight for an install of gnome-shell, I’ve been using it for a couple of months without any issue and got used to it enough that it wouldn’t impede on my workflow. That was until this release, when it was officially supported by Canonical and all of a sudden...
Read more →The mediaplayer widget found on github, created by eonpatapon – (https://github.com/eonpatapon/gnome-shell-extensions-mediaplayer). I’ve been searching for a while for a good, solid widget style thing that’ll sit in the top of the gnome-shell panel which can control the music that’s playing in banshee, rhythmbox or whatever else you want to use to play your tunes....
Read more →If when attempting to update software or install new software in Ubuntu you find yourself being asked to insert the installation/live CD or if you find the following errors while trying to update your sources the following should help fix this error. W: Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 11.10 _Oneiric Ocelot_ – Release amd64 (20111012)/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packages...
Read more →ifconfig eth0 | sed -n ‘/^/ {N;/dr:/{;s/.*dr://;s/ .*//;p;}}’ So you want to display just your IP address and not all the other stuff that comes with using the ifconfig command. Then use the above command. It’s useful if you need your IP address in a script but you don’t want to set a static...
Read more →Okay so, with Google Plus just being released to a select few (and invites) you might be wanting to export all your Facebook photos, tagged and albums you’ve uploaded to Google+. There are several ways of going about this, a few webapps, apps and through Facebook itself, the problem is that most of these...
Read more →In ROS (Robot Operating System) it’s really easy to publish variables to be used between nodes running on the same roscore however I was having some difficulty doing the same for arrays. The problem came when there was no real examples of how to use them, so here is a working example of std_msgs/*MultiArray...
Read more →After installing Steam on my linux machine in wine I noticed a really annoy bug, the windows of steam are tiled across my screen as shown in the screenshot below. Fix: I managed to fix this by opening up the ‘Configure Wine’ program that comes with wine and under the Applications tab switching from...
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