Review 01: Calibre
Feb 19th
Ah, calibre, where would I be without you right now? I do know my eBook library would be a complete mess.
Let me back up…
If you’ve been around the internet for a while, you know how easy it can be to develop a nice little library of eBooks on your computer of various formats. I have More >
New Look, New Start
Feb 17th
LinuxGurl(dot)com will be turning 2 years old next month (on the 28th of March). Its amazing to think that it has been around this long. Yes, I am human and don’t update like I should, but I am going to try to do better. I am still for testing out new OSes via a virtual More >
Another Post About Conky
Feb 12th
After switching around distros for a while, I think I shall stick with Fedora. The biggest change is using yum instead of apt. I’m tempted to created a script that says “hey she really meant yum this instead” but that requires some time.
After playing around with wallpapers and configurations for conky that I didn’t like, More >
‘Tis the Season
Dec 21st
‘Tis the season to relax and enjoy spending time with your family. If you feel the need, give gifts as well. I know that most everyone is feeling a pinch in their wallets, and its hard to be as giving as the commercials and shows tell us we should be. This is especially hard when More >
Karmic Slide-Show Breakdown
Nov 1st
Yes, there has been a slide-show type wallpaper(s) for Linux for a while available over at gnome-look.org (Just search for animated under the wallpaper section). But now it comes as one of the options for Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10). The process is a simple one if you want to make your own. I will break down More >
Conky, revisited
Oct 10th
With lots of googling and failed attempts, not quite right attempts, and then finnaly the product I was aiming at, I have my conky the way I have been wanting it for months. It consists of 11 different files with 1 calling them all together. (Yes, 12 different files, and my average CPU usage is More >
A Random Funny Geeky Thing
Sep 4th
originally found here: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Microsoft-Vissa,-Hey-Thats-Ours,–More-Support-Stories.aspx
A few years ago, a common free email provider who we’ll call “Yooha” had an outage on one of their load balanced email servers. Since it was only a problem on accounts tied to that server (and because I was in the middle of a fairly time sensitive transaction), I thought I’d More >
Adding Virtual Domains — The Easy Way (Ubuntu)
Jun 24th
I wrote this script out of my need for a quick method of adding virtual domains. I hope you find this to be of great use.
create a file named addomain
sudo vim /usr/bin/adddomain
Place this in your file:
#!/bin/bash
#Edit the following e-mail address:
email="your@email.address"
ipaddress=`ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk ‘{print $2}’ | sed ’s/addr://’ | grep .`
domain=$1
file="/etc/apache2/sites-available/$domain"
if More >
Twitter for BASH
Jun 23rd
Thanks Linux Journal for this one:
Ok, You’re REALLY into Twitter, and you want a faster way to tweet, or you’re frustrated at having to hunt through the log files, and you want to share that frustration with all your tweetererers. Here’s a great way:
First, you’ll need to do one of 2 things: create a ~/bin More >
