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Comment on Gentoo: Easy way to ditch your ISP nameserver by John Chronister

John Chronister — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:34:41 +0000

Another good thing to do to make sure that your “/etc/resolv.conf” is not modified is to do the following:

chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

This will make it immutable so that it cannot be modified, deleted, moved, whatever. :O)

Comment on Why Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport sucks by IanG

IanG — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:22:22 +0000

The security personnel were on strike when I was there in December. People in these huge long lines were pushing and shoving, and screaming at the poor management people trying to do security – what a mess. On the return leg, in Terminal E, I discovered that the bathrooms were down two flights of stairs from the gates – very nice when you have bags. On top of that, there were only 4 full toilets in the Mens room, and all occupied, with a line of people waiting.

Coupled with this, Air France cancelled my outbound night-time flight to CDG and put me on an afternoon flight – without notifying me, so that I had a 13 hour layover in CDG. At least they put me in the AF Lounge for the day, but my overall experience of AF and CDG guarantees I will never fly that way again.

Comment on Android: Unable to send [some] SMS messages by Dilipkumar

Dilipkumar — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:21:20 +0000

Thanks for sharing this info. My friend was unable to receive any of my messages for a long time but could receive from others. I was able to figure this out now

Comment on Gentoo: Colemak keymap support by Jeremy Olexa

Jeremy Olexa — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:15:17 +0000

Well… why tie your configuration to a DE? Plus, that doesn’t change your layout for the console or login (gdm, kdm, slim, et al).

Comment on Gentoo: Colemak keymap support by Anton

Anton — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:23:24 +0000

Hm… How about going to keyboard preferences (in gnome2 for sure) and changing a layout?
It can’t be simpler then that.

Comment on Gentoo: Colemak keymap support by James Le Cuirot

James Le Cuirot — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:09:04 +0000

I’ve been considering this for a long time but after the pain and anguish I went through in switching to Dvorak, I don’t think I could go through it again. I miss those keyboard shortcuts though. Thanks for the tip.

Comment on Gentoo: Colemak keymap support by Jeremy Olexa

Jeremy Olexa — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:53:45 +0000

1) Nope, colemak and qwerty are very similar. My phone is still qwerty for example. Albeit, my qwerty WPM dropped mostly due to error rate increasing.
2) Yea, muscle memory wins when not typing words still.

Comment on Gentoo: Colemak keymap support by Loofah

Loofah — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:43:40 +0000

Two questions:

1. When you have to use someone else’s computer or a public machine, do you have any trouble typing in qwerty now?
2. Most of the keyboard shortcuts we use are not longer associated with the actual letter name, and instead are muscle memory of how the fingers move when we want the “save” action, for example. Do you find yourself having trouble with those sorts of things?

Thanks,
Loof

Comment on Tip: “Intelligent” bugzilla mail threading in GMail using procmail by Jeremy Olexa

Jeremy Olexa — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:46:25 +0000

I already did that but couldn’t tolerate the “semi-threading” anymore.

Comment on Tip: “Intelligent” bugzilla mail threading in GMail using procmail by Tim B

Tim B — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:29:51 +0000

I had issues like this with my lugs….

In the end I just used the labels to automatically sort bugs – Doesn’t alkways work perfectly but seems to clear out my inbox enough that I can cope…