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Monthly Archives February 2010

Shrink Vista partition is pulling teeth

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 [...]

Posted 23 February 2010 § Broken tech ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Slideshow of all photos in subdirectories

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.

Posted 10 February 2010 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Get rid of OpenOffice Calc Delete Contents dialogbox

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 [...]

Posted 08 February 2010 § Broken tech ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,