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  • Shrink Vista partition is pulling teeth

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    Confining oneself to a certain way often resulted in narrowing of view points.
    Whenever I supported an interested Windows refugee running into the Ubuntu camp, I easily gave the instruction that the user should de-fragment and then shrink the Windows partition. This will free up space in the harddisk for new partitions, in which Ubuntu [...]

  • Slideshow of all photos in subdirectories

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    I have a collection of photos, which is stored under various sub-directories. How do I start a slideshow of the photos, without moving or copying the photos into one directory.

  • Get rid of OpenOffice Calc Delete Contents dialogbox

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    I have been using OpenOffice Calc a lot and one annoyance I faced is the “Delete Contents” dialogbox. In the beginning, I tolerated this quirk of the program, but after more than a year of clicking “Delete all” checkbox followed by “OK” button, I have had enough.
    Setting aside the question why this idiotic feature [...]

  • Create no frills pictures slideshow

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    I have a few hundred pictures of various sizes, which I want to convert into a slideshow movie. What is a fast, no frills way to do this?

  • Find window ID of a process ID in BASH script

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    Question
    In a BASH script, I launched an application and use “$!” variable to grab it’s process ID. I would like to perform some action on the application’s main window (e.g. move or resize it). However, this requires knowing the application’s window ID. How do I find the application’s window ID, using only [...]

  • Pony Express faster than broadband

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    Last Thursday, a news story appeared on BBC titled SA pigeon “faster than broadband”. When I first read it, I thought it’s an interesting story, and oddly funny. Then, I went “meh”, so what? The pigeon has the unfair advantage in the form of (relatively) high tech 4GB memory stick. Instead, [...]

  • Repairing broken watch strap

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    The strap of my old $10 watch broke. I could spend another $10 to get a new cheap watch, but I figured I should save that for my next two meals. Instead, I took out $1 for a tube of superglue, rolled up my sleeves and start tinkering.

  • USB hub off the side of my desk

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    For a while now, one of my PC has been throw fits at the most irritating moments. It started mildly a few months ago. Randomly about once every few days, the PC would locked up hard. Only a full main power recycle would revive it. I put off trying to fix [...]

  • Neighbourhood park

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    While taking a long walk around the neighbourhood, I stumbled on a small park hidden among the apartment buildings. It was late afternoon on a weekday; there were few people around, but plenty of mosquitoes.

  • Woof

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    Woof! Woof woof woof woof woof woof woof… Woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof… whine…