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Yakuake is a Quake-style terminal for KDE. Linux format touts it as the next generation of Konsole. I think it’s just cool. Yakuake is a terminal window that magically scrolls down smoothly from the top border of your screen when you press a set key combination.

Yakuake in action.
The beauty of Yakuake is that you don’t […]

Just a quick tip for anyone who like me can’t be bothered typing sudo before every command that needs to be run as root. There are two three ways to turn any terminal into a root terminal:
sudo -s
and
sudo su
Edit: you can also use:
sudo bash
and there you have it.

I was searching on the internet for a way to install Steam, using wine (I don’t want to buy Cedega) and I found this guide. Handy post at fedorasolved.org. The site is mainly for Fedora distributions, but with a little modification it works on Ubuntu too. I’ve made it into a simple bash script you […]

If like me you prefer using DVD playing software to play your dvds and only your DVDs, and using another solution, such as VLC Media Player to play your other media files then having to press the DVD button every time you open Xine is a pain. You can make Xine automatically attempt to play […]

When I first got my D900 I couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t let me view it as a drive when I connected it via the USB cable to my Ubuntu Linux laptop. Even when I changed the settings to allow me to use it as USB Mass storage. The answer, you can only transfer […]