I use QCAD Professonal and love it, but in PCManFM which is the default filemanager for LXDE you just get a standard ugly icon for dxf drawings. I like the thumbnails to be a preview of the content of the file. So I downloaded dxf-thumbnailer from here...
When you do bathrooms you need to create fall to the floor wastes. This video from DTA shows how to mix and lay a screed. It doesn't show how to create fall or how deep the tile screed bed should be. I use tiling products from Jacoba tiles. You can go to Ceramic Tile...
Taping Top Coating
Installed system-config-printer-gnome, cups and hplip to get printing from my Chromebooks crouton chroot going and then ran into an error when trying to run system-config-printer: ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for Gdk Tried a fix mentioned on the internet, but...
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 (Model: GT-19505, Android 4.3 - Telstra image) which was circular rebooting at greater than 50% battery charge. Battery life was abysmal. I noticed the phone would get very hot. Sometimes the rebooting kept happening even when I put the...
I am trying to create a video of some photos I numbered them thinking that when I imported them into Pitivi they would appear in numerical order. Not so. They sort alphabetically 1,10,11,100 instead of 1,2,3,4. So to get the result I wanted I created a script to copy...
Just trying to enable nginx on Fedora 20 yum install nginx systemctl enable nginx.service service nginx start # or the new way systemctl start nginx At this point I still can't connect with a remote computer so need to figure out how enable the firewall to allow port...
The Challenge Heterogeneous Operating Systems I have a Fedora 20 Workstation, A HP Chromebook and also access to the Windows stable of Operating systems. When you need to offer remote assistance sometimes they have a Tablet or any mix of the above I bought a...
I use a backup script to gzip and then email my webserver backups to my gmail account. I was using the following line of code to attach the gzip / tar.bz2 files to an email. ( echo backup of $ETC; uuencode $DBDIR/$ETC $ETC ) | mail -s "Backup of $ETC $DATE" $TO...
I have a HP Chromebook with Ubuntu 12.04 running Mate Desktop and Insync Google Drive syncing software installed. I want to be able to see the sync status of my Google drive files while in caja similar to what I can do with the working dropbox integration: The problem...