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4 Days Ago

Faolan84 replied to a thread Offline Blogging Clients? in The Cafe

I generally just type things up in FocusWriter, Gedit, or even Google Docs. Usually if I am working in a straight text editor I will then work the...

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4 Days Ago

sisco311 replied to a thread Recreating home partition/directory in Absolute Beginners Section

The same happens in Ubuntu too. In my skel directory there are 3 hidden (dot) files: .bash_logout .bashrc and .profile. Non of this files are needed...

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4 Days Ago

sisco311 replied to a thread Recognizing Sustaining Members Of The Forum in Forum Feedback & Help

Thread moved to FF&H.

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5 Days Ago

Faolan84 replied to a thread Offline Blogging Clients? in The Cafe

These days I just use a text editor to type up my blog posts, but I used to use Blogio as well and it is a decent program. There is an old Gnome 2...

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5 Days Ago

Faolan84 replied to a thread Where to buy OS'less Laptops in The Cafe

They don't sell without an OS, but System 76 ships with Ubuntu for default. Hence, no "Microsoft Tax." As a recent customer, I highly recommend it....

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5 Days Ago

Faolan84 replied to a thread Anyone using Clementine's "rain" function? in The Cafe

I put it on sometimes when I am not playing any music simply because it is atmospheric and I enjoy the sound of rain and storms. Indeed there is...

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5 Days Ago

Faolan84 replied to a thread Gnome: The ethics of saying just "no" in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

Also, I still have yet to hear back from Mr. Vitters, whom I contacted via email. I really am looking forward to a response, to my inquiries and I...

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5 Days Ago

Faolan84 replied to a thread Gnome: The ethics of saying just "no" in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

Yeah I could see how that could be annoying, but it is a major failure on his part. The bug report should have been handled more gracefully as the...

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6 Days Ago

Faolan84 replied to a poll species or race? in The Cafe

Both, species for the types as a whole and race as distinct or identifiable group within the species based on similar biological criteria based on...

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6 Days Ago

Faolan84 replied to a thread Gnome: The ethics of saying just "no" in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

Hey there everyone! I am the writer of that rant that was linked to in the OP. I did some follow up research and it seems that there is more to...

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6 Days Ago

sisco311 replied to a thread Need Help in password issues in General Help

Hi, and welcome to the forums! You can reset your password from the recovery mode: http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

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1 Week Ago

steveneddy replied to a thread ATI radeon graphics card in Absolute Beginners Section

Welcome to Ubuntu. It is worth it to learn as much as you can. Go slow - you'll get it. Just remember that Linux is not Windows - so don't expect...

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1 Week Ago

steveneddy replied to a thread [rant]Ubuntu hipsters? Really? in The Cafe

Yep - several years later and the same stuff still comes up. I remember when you could state that you used Linux and no one knew what you were...

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1 Week Ago

sisco311 replied to a thread How can I batch convert images to b/w while preserving the folder structure in General Help

Please check out BashPitfalls 001 (link in my signature). That command will fail if the files/directories have white spaces in their names. You...

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2 Weeks Ago

sisco311 replied to a thread while read and function in Programming Talk

Try something like: rename () { file="$1" ext="$2" file="${file%.*}.$ext" ... echo "$file" }

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2 Weeks Ago

sisco311 replied to a thread How can one use all results from previous command in a new command? in Programming Talk

Please check out the link I posted. Especially the 2nd section. ;)

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2 Weeks Ago

sisco311 replied to a thread How can one use all results from previous command in a new command? in Programming Talk

You don't have to use pipes and grep: find ./ -iname '*whatever*' -exec nvlc --nocolor {} + Check out: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/UsingFind

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3 Weeks Ago

steveneddy replied to a thread Tube Amplifiers in The Cafe

Unfortunately there is a distinct and particular sound that can only be achieved with vacuum tubes. It is easy to build a circuit that simply...

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4 Weeks Ago

MasterNetra replied to a thread Is it cruel to keep pets? in The Cafe

I'd say keeping them as a pet in of itself no. I don't see it as cruel and they tend to live a lot better and longer then in the wild. Obviously this...

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