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Open magnet links with Transmission CLI

  • posted on October 13, 2019October 13, 2019
  • William Barnes
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One of the constraints of running i3 is that you can’t minimize windows (and I dislike the system tray implementation and refuse to use it). This makes using the GUI versions of certain
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URxvt background changes when it loses focus

  • posted on July 8, 2019July 8, 2019
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
Running i3 with URxvt as my terminal emulator and Compton for compositing. I had the URxvt background set to a semi-transparent color derived from my wallpaper by pywal. I also had a rule increasing
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Enable PHP autocompletion in Eclipse (Ubuntu 11.04)

  • posted on October 3, 2011
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
For some reason, Eclipse (using PHP Development Tools) doesn’t include built-in PHP functions with a new project. Assuming you downloaded Eclipse from the Ubuntu repository and added PDT
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Python script to fix broken symlinks

  • posted on September 26, 2011
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
I recently added a new hard drive and reorganized my increasingly chaotic and whimsically named storage and backup partitions. In the process, I moved a folder containing hundreds of symlinks to a
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Toggle Gnome screensaver lock on USB key insertion

  • posted on September 25, 2011September 26, 2011
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
While I like my computer to lock itself automatically when I leave, it gets annoying when it does it every time I get up for a few minutes. I decided that it would be nice if I could toggle the
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Gentoo Day 1: Kernel, framebuffer, Xorg

  • posted on February 16, 2010February 21, 2010
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  • Posted in Computers & Internet
Lately I’ve felt that I’ve gotten too lazy. Ubuntu requires almost no work to get running and I have little to no idea what all the fancy stuff they’re doing actually means. So
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Backing up Gmail on an Ubuntu mailserver

  • posted on December 31, 2008
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Backstory I used to run my own Courier/Postfix mailserver to manage my family’s email (technically, I still do, but more later). Of late, I’ve been finding this to be a little bit of a
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