Converting multiple PDFs to plain text in GNU/Linux
Yesterday, I wanted to convert over a hundered PDFs to plain text to allow for easier and quicker copying and pasting during product updates for a client. After a short while searching I found a nice...
View ArticleSSD in Linux and trim (“discard”)
My new workstation is “finished”; I’ve been using it for client work and all seems well. I meant to post interim updates on its progress along with some photos, but got carried away with the build. No...
View ArticleFixing Clementine and other music players crashing in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick...
After my new installation of Ubuntu on my new rig, I was annoyingly unable to play music with Clementine. When Clementine was run from the command line, it would exit with “Segmentation fault”. A gdb...
View ArticleSetting up compass stylesheet authoring framework in Ubuntu 10.10
In case it’s useful to other Ubuntu users, here’s a quick and painless way of getting the compass stylesheet authoring framework version 0.10.6 set up and ready to rock in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick...
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